Richard Leonard SJ
The Beatitudes – ‘The blessing is within the experience’
July 25, 2023
Australian Jesuit Fr Richard Leonard speaks to Pat Coyle about the 'big gospel passage on law and love' known as the Beatitudes.
Read moreLove is not a feeling
July 18, 2023
Richard Leonard SJ recounts some of the wedding stories from his latest book 'The Law of Love' including some 'unusal' song requests.
Read moreFifty-eight most powerful words
January 20, 2023
"The fifty-eight most powerful words in the world." is how Richard Leonard SJ describes the Lord's Prayer, in his latest book The Law of Love.
Read moreA new word for ‘sin’
October 28, 2022
Richard Leonard SJ scrutinises religious language in his book 'The Law of Love', and says the word 'sin' is meaningless for many young people. He has an alternative.
Read moreThe ten commandments revisited
October 21, 2022
Richard Leonard SJ's encounters with a supreme court judge and a secular Jew led him to review the ten commandments for his latest book 'The Law of Love'.
Read moreRetrieving real Christianity
October 6, 2022
Richard Leonard's latest book 'The Law of Love' seeks to retreive the central and authentic messages of Christianity and in language that can be understood.
Read moreForgiving our enemies
August 9, 2022
How realistic is Jesus' command to forgive our enemies? Just one of the questions Richard Leonard SJ explores in his latest book 'The Law of Love.'
Read moreBeloved by Christ
July 22, 2022
Richard Leonard SJ speaks about the uniqueness of the incarnation among world religions and its significance in and through other people.
Read moreLove and the law
June 20, 2022
Richard Leonard SJ gives traditional church teaching on gospel values a modern day make-over in his latest book 'The Law of Love: Modern Language for Ancient Wisdom.'
Read moreGod did not send the coronavirus
May 8, 2020
Richard Leonard SJ :: Some people like to see God as the Being who wills suffering on the world. This is not a true Christian understanding of suffering. God may...
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