2017 Red Mass Homily
Not far from the Law Courts Building on Macquarie Street is the Colonial Secretary’s Building. Many of you know it. While crossing at the corner of Macquarie and Bridge you might have caught a glimpse of the three statues that grace the corner of the building. In ascending order – and it is important to …
2016 Patronal Feast Day Homily
I’m sure many of you have visited the Frick Gallery in New York, where Hans Holbein’s two portraits hang on the same wall – Thomas Cromwell and Thomas More, whose execution Cromwell engineered for King Henry VIII 1535. All of the hierarchy but St John Fisher, showed the sterling lack of courage of Captain Jack …
Homily for Red Mass 2015
Just before Christmas, only a few hundred metres from this cathedral and even closer to our legal precinct, a man who styled himself ‘Sheik’ Man Haron Monis held a café full of staff and customers hostage for hours, terrorizing them and our city, until it ended with three dead. One was a member of the …
Feast of St Thomas More, St Mary’s Cathedral Sydney, 25 June 2014
It is a great honour to be able to preside at this Mass with you as we honour the memory of St Thomas More and pray for the repose of the souls of the deceased members of our society. There is much that can be said about St Thomas More. In looking for “the angle” …
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