Spiritual Tradition

Bishop Tony spoke with Tim Webster from 2sm radio on Holy Thursday 2026 to discuss the mystery of Easter, the beauty of the Catholic Church, and how we can have peace amidst the violence and chaos of the world.

Michael McLaren interviewed Bishop Percy on 2GB Radio about the significance of St. Francis of Assisi and the 800 th  anniversary of his death.   St. Francis stayed awake many hours at night asking God two questions:   God, who are you? God, who am I?   Bishop Percy speaks about the return to faith and the coming to faith of young people, especially young men, since 2020.

200 Words: Recorded to Rekindle Gustav Mahler (1860-1911): Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. Pope Leo XIV reflected on the relationship between Tradition and the Bible in his Wednesday Catechesis: There exists a close connection and communication between sacred tradition and Sacred Scripture. For both of them, flowing from the same divine wellspring, in a certain way merge into a unity and tend toward the same end (28 January 2026). The ‘fir

WATCH NOW: ABC Interview with Bishop Tony Percy (see foot of page) Ashes are placed upon our foreheads. The priest has the option of saying: Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return. Repent, and believe in the Gospel. Quite evocative, I’d say. St. John Paul II: Lent is the time for entering into ourselves. It is a time of special intimacy with God in the depths of our hearts and consciences. And it is within this interior intimacy with God that the main work o

RED MASS St. Mary’s Cathedral 2 February 2026 Read full speech below: This time last year for our Red Mass, the 266th successor to St. Peter was our pope. Today Leo XIV is our pope, elected in May 2025. I was ordained a bishop just a few days before the papal election and headed to Rome in September for what is known in Australia as the ‘Baby Bishops Conference.’ It was a fascinating experience. Approximately 200 of the world’s newest bishops, from all over the globe, were pr

The early Church: how a persecuted people endured, multiplied, and transformed the world through faithful love and fearless sacrifice. 12 December 2025 iWitness Conference in Cobbitty, NSW Many Christians died in the Great Persecution. It ended with the Edict of Milan (313), with the emperor granting religious tolerance to all peoples. Those who died were men and women, young and old, simple and sophisticated people, bishops, priests, deacons and the baptised. It was clearly

14 September 2025 What keeps us from holiness? St John Henry Newman gave a surprising answer: not lack of faith, prayer, or effort — but lack of sympathy. In this lecture recorded at St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School, Bulli, Bishop Tony Percy dissects Newman’s sermon Christian Sympathy - showing how the Incarnation, human weakness, and the call to communion belong at the heart of Christian life. Why do we hide our struggles? How does Christ’s suffering transform our emotion

200 words: Are We Wrong? John the Baptist was expecting a Messiah of judgement, not exactly a crash and burn approach, but: Someone who would cut down the rotten tree and burn the useless chaff (Henry Wansborough, OSB, Universalis). He got it wrong. So might we. We may sincerely think or believe something to be the case, but in fact it is not so. Conscience is ‘me looking at me.’ A gift of God: For we have in our hearts a law inscribed by God…. Our conscience is our most secr