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Easter proclaims: Go out and tell the people about this new life (Acts 5). What is this ‘new life’? The whole community remained faithful to the teaching of the apostles, to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers (Acts 2). Furthermore, and not an optional extra: The faithful all lived together and owned everything in common. The Church has always defended the right to private property. With the advancement of the Industrial Revolution in the 19 th Century,

Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first Holy Thursday Mass just a few days ago. He focused his attention on the Gospel of John. Jesus assumes the position of a slave by washing the feet of his apostles: What the Lords shows us — taking the water, the basin and the towel — is far more than a moral example. He entrusts to us his very way of life (2 April 2026). Pope Benedict XVI is quoted: We too must ‘learn repeatedly that God’s greatness is different from our idea of greatness… bec

There are two traditions in the New Testament about the resurrection of Jesus. There are the Gospel narrative scenes. There are the confessional passages in the letters of the New Testament. The four gospels scenes affirm two things about the resurrection of Jesus. First, that the sepulchre in which Jesus was entombed after his death was found empty. Second, that Jesus was encountered by various witnesses in a new, resurrected existence, not known to human experience, and not

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.

The four gospels have discrepancies in detail, including the resurrection of Jesus. Not so long-ago academics postulated that the discrepancies arose because of the political posturing of the four gospel writers. However, our ‘brilliant academics’ forgot to factor in the nature of oral tradition: The slight variations between the gospels show all the marks of oral tradition, for in genuine oral tradition each ‘performance’ is different. Different people tell the story slightl

Theology seeks to understand the meaning of events, so as to help us spiritually. After praying the Angelus, Pope Leo XIV spoke about the meaning of the resurrection of Lazarus: This event invites us to free our hearts from habits, conditioning and ways of thinking which, like boulders, shut us away in the tomb of selfishness, materialism, violence and superficiality. In these places there is no life, but only confusion, dissatisfaction and loneliness (22 March 2026). Surely