My column originally published in The Catholic Weekly last week. I love the school holidays because they give me a chance to organise get-togethers with friends we don’t get to see in the regular course of things. During one of these last week I was watching our children tear around their friends’ backyard with them, tumbling…
Category: Pitter Patter
Our children will remember how we responded to these tense times
Image by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. It seemed a long wait to find out who would replace Cardinal George Pell as the Archbishop of Sydney, but the timing of the happy announcement was providential, coming as it did at the end of a tense day for our city and country. The day…
Our Mt Schoenstatt family retreat
Originally published in The Catholic Weekly. Last weekend we were fortunate enough to be able to go on a family retreat with other couples and young families hosted at the Mt Schoenstatt retreat centre in Mulgoa. I’d never been to the centre and its beautiful shrine before. It is as they say, a ‘place of…
Do parents find their smart phones more interesting than their kids?
Image by Garry Knight. Article originally published in The Catholic Weekly under a different headline. Like most people I know I use my mobile phone a lot, less for making calls and more to see the time, check for email messages, or look up my favourite websites. I was surprised though to read that according…
Marilyn Rodrigues 