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200 Words: Laws Lived in Love He was born in 1842 and died in 1857, canonised in 1954. St. John Bosco (1815-1888) wrote a book about him, devoting a chapter to the day of St. Dominic Savio’s First Holy Communion. Dominic wrote in his ‘little book’: Resolutions made by me, Dominic Savio, in the year 1849, on the day of my First Holy Communion, at the age of seven: 1. I will go to Confession often, and as frequently to Holy Communion as my confessor allows. 2. I wish to sanctif

200 Words: When Words Warp Reality Jesus warns us: Let what you say be simply ‘yes’ or ‘no.’ Anything more than this comes from the evil one (Matthew 5). Pope Leo XIV speaks with clarity: Today, the meaning of words is ever more fluid, and the concepts they represent are increasingly ambiguous. In the contortions of semantic ambiguity, language is becoming more and more a weapon with which to deceive, or to strike and offend opponents. We need words once again to express dist

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

Bishop Tony Percy Thomas More Lecture 27 June 2025 The founders of Australia deliberately set out to create a free and fair country. They succeeded. Our Aboriginal brothers and sisters, the first immigrants to Australia, arrived by foot, wading across the archipelago, probably from Africa through India, most likely 60,000 years ago. Sea levels rose by 150 metres 20,000 years ago, meaning that you could no longer walk from Tasmania to Papua New Guinea. Indigenous Australians w

Saturday 19 July 2025 Human Rights Law Alliance Conference Full transcript of speech available below: The founders of Australia deliberately set out to create a free and fair country. They succeeded. We wanted a country that is free in every way: Personal freedom, freedom of association, freedom of conscience, freedom of thought, freedom of the press, economic and cultural freedom, freedom of religion, freedom of property rights. This has been our experience. We wanted a coun

200 Words: Ancient Promises, Risen Fulfilment Jesus says: You are salt of the earth and light of the world (Matthew 5). Salt preserves and gives flavour. Light penetrates darkness. Interestingly enough, Luke speaks of Jesus’ resurrection with the image of salt: Jesus presented himself as alive after his suffering by many infallible proofs, for forty days being seen by them and speaking about the kingdom of God and eating salt with them (Acts 1). So, Jesus appears to the disci