Prayer Articles

Refugee week is a time for looking at big pictures and little pictures. This year the big picture is bleak.  The number of people...

It probably seems a little unusual to offer a reflection on the Year of Consecrated Life as a woman who doesn’t belong to a...

I compose blog posts in my head. Words and ideas are given birth deep within and then freed after a bit of pondering. Some...

I have been resenting my knee exercises recently.  I know they’re good for me, and as my physiotherapist keeps on reminding me, my knees...

Like everyone, I’ve had some hard times in my life. Almost twenty years ago was one of the hardest, when I found out that...

It’s been widely reported that Pope Francis never owned a mobile phone while he was the Cardinal Archbishop of Buenos Aires. Yet, his election...

It was with an air of expectancy last Mother’s Day when I called Mum to chat on the phone. I was 36 weeks pregnant...

Shortly after midnight on April 29 on the Indonesian island of Nusakambangan eight prisoners were taken out to be shot. They went out together...

Sitting in church after reconciliation I was struck by the two sides of God, human and divine. The divinity of God is such an...

I recently received an email from a gentleman asking if I could spare five minutes to answer his question: Are you certain that God...

This article was first published in Province Express and is used with permission Some years ago when I was visiting a remote Aboriginal community,...

At every Easter I can recall, the Exsultet has always captured my attention. That one line specifically “O, happy fault” would constantly turn in...