On Thursday, January 11, the Brisbane branch of the Thomas More Centre began the year with a talk by our very own Mark Makowiecki entitled “The New Adam: How Jesus Undoes the Fall of Man in the Gospel of John”. About a dozen people gathered in the meeting room of Indooroopilly Library (which will be…
Happy New Year and welcome to the first Thomas More Centre newsletter of 2024! Since the launch of the ‘TMC redux’ last June, we’ve been building up our capacity to produce edifying content and deliver informative events such that 2024 promises to be a big, breakout year. Before listing coming events in January, we thought…
Thank you for your friendship and interest in the revival of the Thomas More Centre throughout 2023! It has been wonderful to receive so many encouraging emails, letters, and phone messages about the TMC and our Social and Cultural Studies this year. 1. Thoughts to Bethlehem As we head spiritually and liturgically towards Bethlehem –…
On Friday, December 1, the Thomas More Centre held a Christmas lunch for approximately 40 sponsors, volunteers, and friends of the National Civic Council and Australian Family Association in Perth. Warwick D’Silva, West Australian manager of the Thomas More Centre, welcomed all present at the lunch. He spoke about the hope that the Perth office…
In a way, no great idea is completely fatherless or motherless. Looking from afar, it may seem curious that two thoroughly Mediterranean-Australian brothers, Dr Joe and Bob Santamaria, should dedicate their collaborative formational and cultural project – the Thomas More Centre – under the banner of such a quintessentially English statesman, writer and martyr. A…
Events are in full swing at the Thomas More Centre around the country, just before the year comes to a close. In Perth, a few young people joined NCC WA president and TMC youth officer for WA, Warwick D’Silva, in the office to talk about how to grow the TMC Hub, where they discussed writing,…
Last week’s Thomas More Centre newsletter was an engaging piece by Mark Makowiecki, our Queensland organiser. In it Mark reports and reflects upon a talk given in Brisbane for the TMC in early November by writer and Chesterton Society Secretary, Gary Furnell. Gary’s talk touched upon the transcendent and subterranean sources of “human creativity” by…
In the wake of Anna’s wonderful reflection on the nature of “creativeminorities” last Wednesday, it was fitting that a group of us gatheredin Brisbane on Thursday, November 9 to hear Gary Furnell speak about the creative genius in a talk entitled, ‘Jacques Maritain and the Spirit ofCreativity’. Gary, who is the Secretary of the Australian…
It is very clear that in addition to his great service to the public and religious domains of the realm and of Europe of his time, our great namesake, Saint Thomas More, remains both a stellar but also very practical prophet of cultural, spiritual and social renewal for our own century. We have been exploring…
Since launching the Thomas More Centre digital newsletter a fortnight ago, TMC executive director Anna Krohn has been busy outlining the importance of fostering “creative minorities” – of building a movement that holds firmly to the unchanging principles of Christian social teaching while adapting itself to the ever-evolving 21st-century landscape. To that end, she has…