Meet Heather Geddes and find out how she raised $50,000 for her parish, why she fell off a stationary horse as a child, who delighted her with a visit recently and about her faith journey
For Diocesan Archivist Michael Rogers, a recent enquiry sent to the Records and Archives Centre has highlighted a forgotten part of early Diocesan history and spotlighted the links between a current parishioner’s family and the group that accompanied Bishop Edward Wyndham Tufnell to Brisbane in 1860
“I did the two-year whites-only compulsory military conscription as a ‘religious non-combatant’, but when required to do continuous military service one month per year, thanks to Albert Nolan and his contemporaries, I found the courage to declare myself a conscientious objector in the late 1980s, risking jail and worse,” says The Rev’d Nic Denny-Dimitriou
“At the centre of the story of Mary Magdalene there lies a paradox,” says Emeritus Professor Philip Almond