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Why I’m not a Hospital Chaplain

My colleague, Father Elias, began his sermon on the Sunday I was in hospital by saying, “I think if it had appeared in the paper that a priest had threatened to beat up a fellow patient in a Sydney Hospital, … Continue reading

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Christ’s man on a bicycle

He’s familiar with heaven but this monk says Sydney traffic is hell. A wiry middle-aged monk hitching up his ankle-length grey habit while pedalling an old bike in and out of chaotic traffic has become a familiar sight in Sydney’s … Continue reading

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