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I'm not homophobic, but if you question my relished prejudice, satirise my hissy fits, you're not playing fair. I'm not racist, but don't you call out my revulsion, or reveal cultural discrimination ...

February 24 will remain in peoples’ minds and for many years to come being the anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But for some of us, February 24 holds another, more sustaining and ...

Gayle lost her father recently after a prolonged period of treatment for prostate cancer. She made an appointment to see me, requesting antidepressants and sleeping tablets, as she was not coping and ...

It rose in its tall verticals from the grace and welcome of the earth, / That swooned far, far below, / As canny masons hefted the limestone / Into vast beatitudes of grace; / Shipwrights inverted ...

When David Halliday from Eureka Street asked me to pen an introduction to my father Bruce Dawe’s unpublished poems, I wasn’t quite sure at first. Even with the purest of intentions, bias tends to ...

The final document of the Synod on Synodality has served as a signpost to a quiet revolution in many areas. Not least of these has been the Church’s attitude to disability. As I have discussed in ...

Pope Leo XIV has been elected, becoming the new leader of the Catholic Church and successor to Pope Francis. He is the first US-born pope, and the second pope from the Americas. Just what sort of pope ...

The Argentinian Jesuit Jorge Mario Bergoglio was a serious contender for the papacy at the conclave which elected Joseph Ratzinger in 2005. The cardinals who voted for Ratzinger saw him as a faithful ...

Take from me all my trumpery lest I die. The line, from an evening prayer penned by C.S. Lewis, could moonlight as a wrap of last Saturday’s federal election. Not only because it (accidentally) ...

Modern medicine’s astonishing ability to preserve life has nudged the possibility of death and the process of dying ever further from our consciousness. The past year or so has been a confronting one ...

Damian Balassone is the author of three volumes of poetry, including the forthcoming collection of short poems and epigrams Love is a Weird Cat. We need no reminding of the depth of the division that ...