Articles by Bishop Bill Wright

BISHOP BILL WRIGHT: To Krakow and back IMAGE Bishop Bill Wright

BISHOP BILL WRIGHT: To Krakow and back

September 07, 2016

On the face of it, I shouldn’t have much enjoyed this trip to World Youth Day with seventy others from our diocese. I’m not really made for group touring. ‘On your right… And now on your left… Keep together, please.’ I like to poke around on my own and search out little curiosities that no one pays much attention to, to spend the time as I want.

BISHOP BILL WRIGHT: Statement of acknowledgement and apology IMAGE Bishop Bill Wright

BISHOP BILL WRIGHT: Statement of acknowledgement and apology

September 07, 2016

In my five years as Bishop of the Diocese, this is the second commission of inquiry before which I have appeared.  There is a very considerable difference in scope between the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (‘Royal Commission’) and the Special Commission of Inquiry into matters relating to the police investigation of certain child sexual abuse allegations in the Catholic Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle. 

Christian fundamentals IMAGE Aurora

Christian fundamentals

August 03, 2016 Comments

I have an old grievance about the way a relatively small group has appropriated to itself, in Australia at least, both the designation and the popular image of ‘Christians’.

BISHOP BILL WRIGHT: Christian fundamentals IMAGE Bishop Bill Wright

BISHOP BILL WRIGHT: Christian fundamentals

August 03, 2016

I have an old grievance about the way a relatively small group has appropriated to itself, in Australia at least, both the designation and the popular image of ‘Christians’.

Foreign Parts IMAGE Aurora

Foreign Parts

July 06, 2016 Comments

Everybody seems to think that I should write about going to World Youth Day. I’m inclined to believe it would be more useful to write about it while I’m there, or even afterwards, but perhaps there’s something to be said for laying out my expectations, hopes and foreshadowings. People seem to think so. By the time you read this, I and the other 70-odd pilgrims will be about to depart.

BISHOP BILL WRIGHT:Foreign Parts IMAGE Bishop Bill Wright

BISHOP BILL WRIGHT:Foreign Parts

July 06, 2016

Everybody seems to think that I should write about going to World Youth Day. I’m inclined to believe it would be more useful to write about it while I’m there, or even afterwards, but perhaps there’s something to be said for laying out my expectations, hopes and foreshadowings. People seem to think so. By the time you read this, I and the other 70-odd pilgrims will be about to depart.