There are two kinds of people that consistently seem to draw from Christ a lot of harsh, critical, even abusive language. The first is the self-righteous hypocrite, the person more…

In this Gospel passage Christ seems to be praising an out-and-out crook, a man who was consciously dishonest, calculating and deceptive. But the point being made is a simple one….

Over recent years the Church’s focus of attention in the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross has shifted away from the finding of a particular relic and has settled…

The fact is that to choose anything means also not to choose something else, something that may also be good, and attractive and satisfying. In the two images in the…

I don’t suppose there is very much in life that more of us value more highly than simply peace of mind, freedom from stress, from anxiety. That being so, these…

By the time St Luke wrote this Gospel, the Church was facing the challenge of learning to live with what seemed to be the absence of Christ, the absence of…

GAZA HOMILY – July 2025   As Christians we have a duty to speak out against injustice and poverty in the world. No right-minded person would seek to defend or…

Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – 3 August 2025   It is perhaps unlikely that there is a single one of us here who has not grappled at one time…

Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – 27 July 2025   I suppose any one of us could find in our lives some example of one of the great, perplexing mysteries…

  In this gospel passage St Luke uses the words of a lawyer to pose two universal human questions: “What must I do to be saved? What kind of life…