Catholic bishops have the responsibility to be “governors and sometimes judges, as well as teachers and sacramental celebrants, and are not just wall flowers or rubber stamps”. These typically punchy and memorable words were written by Cardinal George Pell, in an article in The Spectator magazine that…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…