Dean, St John’s Anglican Cathedral, Brisbane

The Very Rev'd Dr Peter Catt

About The Very Rev'd Dr Peter -

The Very Rev’d Dr Peter Catt is Dean of St John’s Anglican Cathedral, Brisbane. Dr Catt holds a Bachelor of Divinity and a PhD in Evolutionary Microbiology. He is Chair of the Australian Churches Refugee Taskforce and President of A Progressive Christian Voice. He also serves on Anglican and Ecumenical Social Justice Committees at a Diocesan and national level.

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Articles by The Very Rev'd Dr Peter

How the Church is marginalising itself and blames everybody else

“The constancy with which I am presented with a question that assumes an incompatibility between science and religion demonstrates how effectively such ideas can get traction in the public consciousness and how long such perceptions can last,” says The Very Rev’d Dr Peter Catt

Refugee Week: share a story, share a meal

The Very Rev’d Dr Peter Catt introduces Refugee Week 2019, which is celebrated this week, and invites us to share in the stories of the brave and resilient souls who have sought safety on our shores

How we see ourselves and climate justice

The Very Rev’d Dr Peter Catt, Anglican Dean of Brisbane, questions dominant, destructive narratives of our society today and challenges us to re-imagine our relationship with each other, and with Creation, suggesting that this could have a major impact on how we deal with the climate crisis before us

The first casualty of war…

The Anglican Dean of Brisbane explores World War I poetry in this thought-provoking Anzac Day reflection: “As the war went on, the poetry became more earthy, visceral and complex. This was driven by one aim, the desire for truth-telling. And for that truth-telling to reveal the reality that the authors felt was masked by the nationalistic and sentimentalist poetry.”