Frank Brennan SJ

Frank is an Australian Jesuit and is author of a number of books including No Small Change (2015), Tampering with Asylum (2003) and Acting on Conscience (2007).

Homily notes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sunday

29 June 2020

A challenge has been laid: ‘The Church in Australia must be shaped by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and spirituality for it to be authentically a Church of this land.’

A listening Church

8 August 2019 EH

On 26 June 2019, Fr Frank Brennan SJ gave a speech to the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture in Canberra, titled ‘Our Church or Our Museum – Contributing to a confident, humble, listening and questioning Church’. In this edited excerpt, he reflects on what it means to be a listening Church.

Becoming a church for mission

10 August 2017 EH

What will the Church look like in 2030? Fr Frank Brennan looks at the leadership of Pope Francis, and where the Church might be heading into the future.

Parish Life blog: No one can serve two masters

27 February 2017

Fr Frank Brennan SJ offers a reflection on the future of clericalism in the Catholic Church after the conclusion of the Royal Commission.

Prayer blog: A light rises in the darkness for the upright

6 February 2017

There is plenty of darkness ahead for our Church in the weeks ahead with the Royal Commission’s hearings into the Catholic Church. I think we need to reflect on these stark realities in the light of the scriptures. And this can be done only by holding the victims clearly in focus, not as statistics or as hard cases, but as individuals, erstwhile vulnerable members of our church community, citizens able to walk tall again because they have been heard, believed and affirmed.