The Ascension must have been an astonishing event. As an actual happening it is attested in the Gospels of Mark and Luke, as well as in the Acts of the Apostles.

Imagine there are two people having this conversation: “If you really love me, then prove it!”

On the island of Flores, where I live, there is a home for people with special physical and mental needs. Run by the Holy Spirit Missionary Sisters, it is by the sea in the town of Labuan Bajo on the western tip of the island.

Just before Easter I visited the home. I was overwhelmed by the joy of the residents. 

Today’s readings tell us how the early Church accepted the challenge of keeping Jesus’ memory alive in the Christian community by fashioning it into a serving and worshipping community..

On the 8th of May 2014, the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference has just released a very strong Statement on the Federal Government’s cruel treatment of Asylum Seekers ...

The story of the Lord's appearance to the two disciples on the road to Emmaus is probably one of the best developed and deeply insightful of the appearance stories in the Gospels.

Today we celebrate not only the Octave of Easter and Divine Mercy Sunday but we also celebrate the canonisation of two outstanding popes of the last century.

Ten days before Easter a friend of mine started to post the countdown towards the Feast of the Resurrection on his Facebook page. Somehow I was struck by this simple gesture as it reminded me to ponder a bit deeper on the Feast. In actual fact, we were already given 40 days of Lent for the proper preparation which also marks the importance of these days.

May I just invite you to pause a moment and to ask yourself: Now, after the feast, how do I feel the joy of Easter?

ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK, Mary of Magdala came to the tomb […] and saw the stone removed from the tomb.

As Christians everywhere prepare to commemorate the triumphant entry of Jesus into Jerusalem and enter into Holy Week, I could not help but think of the paradox of these upcoming religious celebrations almost colliding with one of humanities darkest days.

Among the four gospels, John's account of the raising of Lazarus is surely one of the most remarkable.

Karma is something that a lot of people are asking me about - whether it is a Christian belief or not.

In the National Rugby League’s (NRL) Footy Show, a slightly irreverent show about the players of the NRL, they have a segment where they ask the wives or girlfriends of the NRL players questions and then try to match their answers with their partner’s.

When I was a pre-school child, my mother used to take my sister, Yvonne, and I shopping in Mark Foy's. Mark Foy's was a big, exciting department store diagonally opposite the Hyde Park entrance to Museum Station in Sydney's CBD. The building was a marvel to behold from the outside. With its turrets and decorative finishes, it looked a bit like Uncle Scrooge McDuck's mansion. However, it was the interior that really captured the imagination of a little three-year old boy: All the floors in the store opened onto a big, central atrium, and, reaching from the basement to the top floor stood an aviary full of live birds, budgerigars, I think. What a place to let one's imagination run wild! And on one visit to Mark Foy's, my imagination really did run wild: I got lost.

There is a mysterious story in 2 Kings that can help us understand what is happening in the transfiguration.