by PAUL COLLITS – AUSTRALIA’S bizarrely appointed Ukrainian Cardinal, Mykloa Bychok, was unsurprisingly fulsome in his praise for the late Pontiff. There are several reasons to tilt towards kindness towards the late Pope Francis. Francis was a managerialist, who brought HR to…
by PAUL COLLITS – CARDINAL George Pell wasn’t initially sure of his priestly vocation as a youth. He had a solid academic career beckoning, as well as a solid football contract inked in. He chose the priesthood, and, by George, it cost…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE Catholic Weekly recently published an article with the headline “COVID-19 did a number on Mass attendance in Australia”. The report by Marilyn Rodrigues was wrong. It wasn’t COVID that “did a number” on churchgoing. Churches are the…
by PAUL COLLITS – IN A country town parish in NSW’s Blue Mountains, one quietly observes the congregation. There is only one Sunday Mass, so a quick census is straightforward. Apart from the obvious eighty or ninety per cent who have white…
by PAUL COLLITS – IT MUST be God’s sense of irony that has delivered us the very worst Pope at the time of our greatest need for clarity and spine. We have been delivered a pontiff lacking any commitment to push back…
by PAUL COLLITS – RECENT events have highlighted a great contrast between two prominent Liberal public figures who, on the face of it, should have a lot in common. Both are frequently, though inaccurately, described as “ultra-conservative”. What would Dominic Perrottet say…
by PAUL COLLITS – I ONCE wrote a case study on activist journalists, and no prizes for guessing who the subject of the case study was. Louise Milligan is simply indefatigable. Like a dog with a bone. Or like one of those…
by DAVID FLINT – HOW did George Cardinal Pell, Prince of the Church, become a persecuted political prisoner, Australia’s Cardinal Mindszenty? When the internationally esteemed Cardinal is finally laid to rest in Sydney’s great Basilica, it will be in the crypt already…
THE Catholic Church is in danger of again splitting in two as Pope Francis prods his unwilling flock in a “damning” direction. The irrepressible analyst of all things Roman Catholic, Damian Thompson, recently described the Church as having split into what are,…
by PAUL COLLITS – AS SOMEONE who has written over fifty thousand words on George Cardinal Pell, I didn’t expect to be writing any more. The Cardinal’s sudden and unexpected passing in Rome, after a routine operation, has been a great sadness…
