My column published recently in The Catholic Weekly. Many of us love to launch into a new year with resolutions that only see us through the first couple of weeks of January, as popular website and magazine publishers know too well. We start the New Year with goals and resolutions, some serious, some more frivolous,…
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Admiring the Baby at Christmas
My column published recently in The Catholic Weekly. After Mass last Sunday, which was Gaudete Sunday, we met a woman carrying her newborn baby boy. Our eldest was delighted, and instantly wanted to touch him. Then, back home, she sighed, “I wish we had another baby”. It is interesting how people are naturally drawn to…
Happy New Year!
I hope I’m not too late to wish you a very Happy New Year! It seems like a strange quirk of human nature to get so excited over the simple change of December 31 to January 1 each year – but I still do. Last year was good for me and my family in many ways; this…
Little family, big job
This is my column recently published in The Catholic Weekly. In his first official homily as the new Archbishop of Sydney, Archbishop Anthony Fisher certainly painted an inspiring 20-year vision for the Catholic Church in Sydney (which should benefit the whole city). In part, he said that he hoped by the time he retired…
Marilyn Rodrigues 