The year 1971 saw the group The New Seekers release their hit “I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony)”. The song paints a lovely picture of a home for the whole world, furnished with love. In the garden are “apple trees and honeybees and snow-white turtle doves.” Everyone stands hand-in-hand, singing a song of peace that echoes through the hills and throughout the land. The song would be easy to dismiss as a saccharine earworm that betrays its origins as a
As always at the beginning of Advent we anticipate the Lord Jesus both in his coming as man at the first Christmas, and at the end of time as the mysterious Son of Man. The first understanding is the one which is most familiar to us—we are awaiting the birth of the child in Bethlehem; it’s all cute, there are farmyard animals, simple shepherds, angels dashing all over the place, and finally the visit of the wise men from the East—it ‘s all nice—kids act it out at Mass and e
The institution of monarchy has fallen on hard times in the modern world. Ever since King Louis XVI was guillotined during the French revolution, the number of kings and queens has become smaller and smaller with the passage of time. Australia continues to be a monarchy and our monarchy has recently attracted a great deal of attention, celebration and commentary through the passing of the late Queen Elizabeth II after a very long reign and the accession of her son, King Charl
From the beginning, St Dominic’s friars have set about preaching with the mind of the Church. Our homilies are offered here for the good of their readers and the support of homilists everywhere.
