by Nick Punch | Dec 15, 2012
THE CONNECTICUT TRAGEDY Since I know many families in Connecticut, I have during the last day felt profoundly sad, since hearing the news of the hideous shooting. My prayers go out to the families concerned, but to all families who now live in fear that a similar fate...
by Nick Punch | Nov 21, 2012
The new translation has been used for a year now, and we who have used it daily should have had enough time to decide whether it fulfils any of its claims. I was annoyed this last Sunday. I had to celebrate Mass five times, and the clumsy Collect Prayer frustrated me....
by Nick Punch | Oct 10, 2012
I was a young pastor in Melbourne, Australia when Pope Paul VI wrote an exciting letter (actually called an Exhortation!) to the church. It was called “Proclaiming the Gospel Message”, (Evangelii Nuntiandi) and I took to it with a young priest’s zeal. Since the...
by Nick Punch | Jun 19, 2012
In 1989 having concluded my second term as Provincial of the Australian and New Zealand Dominicans, I thought I was going to study for a semester at Boston College. However, I received a call from a Dominican friend, Fr. Bernie Maxwell, who introduced me to Fr. Ed...
by Nick Punch | Apr 12, 2012
NEW TRANSLATION OF THE MISSAL There is a word which keeps occurring in the new translation of the Missal. That word is “MERIT”. It is a word which concerns me because it is easy to think, “I deserve”. “I have been good and merit...
