Speeches

Ordination – Br Bede Cannavo OSB By Archbishop Julian Porteous Wednesday, 3 April 2024 During the Lenten season the daily Office of Readings takes up the Book of Exodus. We follow the story of [...]

Written by Fr Paschal Corby OFM Conv. This paper was presented at the ACCC National Conference in Albury, 2023, and first published in The Priest. 4th Dec 2023   A culture of death In his [...]

On Saturday, March 25th, Steven W. Mosher addressed an audience in Sydney on the important topics of Censorship, Coercion & Informed Consent. Before he gave his talk we played a recording of [...]

  By Andrew Murphy   On February 27, 2023, after years of speculation about the origins of COVID-19, the US Energy Department released a report which concluded that the pandemic likely [...]

Charity and Courage Transcript of the speech presented by Anna Walsh outside Parliament House on the Day of the Unborn Child 27th March 2022 Thank you, Paul. My Lord, Bishop Umbers, Reverend [...]

A lecture from Archbishop Anthony Fisher which was given in Rome at the canonisation of Cardinal Saint John Henry Newman on 12th October 2019. It is from the conference on “Newman the [...]

In this article I argue that Western nations are in terminal decline unless they can rediscover the true meaning and value of marriage and of the blessing of children as a gift to married couples [...]

To Paul, Chris, Bishop Porteous, friends one and all: Thank-you for the honour of having me as an Anglican here tonight. I’m here in the spirit of Charles Colson, the recently departed American [...]

Pater Noster… When teaching his disciples how to pray, Jesus began with ‘Our Father’. He addressed God as ‘Abba’, and taught us to do the same. This was a term equivalent to ‘Daddy’, or the [...]

It’s not an exaggeration to say that FLI’s recent conference was the best I’ve ever attended. With a line-up of engaging speakers, a thoroughly family-friendly venue, a hard-working and helpful [...]