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Details about the lunch are on their website www.catalystforrenewal.org.au

At this unique and engaging luncheon, attendees will have the chance to hear Fr Leonard’s insights firsthand, ask questions, and reflect on his thought-provoking approach to faith in today’s world.

Back in early 2020, when he was in the United States, his publisher gave him a deadline for the book and he airily put his signature to the agreement. The Tina Turner hit ‘What’s Love Got to do With It’, with its undertones of her troubled marriage to Ike Turner, was one front-runner at the altar.

I got the live version’.”

That Year 12 student is now a Jesuit. Thank gosh, so did the congregation.

New book talk and lunch

His latest book, WHY GOD? Stories to Inspire Faith, explores how storytelling can deepen belief, spark reflection, and invite meaningful conversation about faith.

On Saturday 13 September, Fr Richard will speak about his book at a lunch in Hunters Hill, hosted by Catalyst for Renewal.

He had just completed a retreat during which he had finally understood the deep and abiding power of the words “I love you”. A Jesuit, Parish Priest of Our Lady of the Way at North Sydney, and author of several books, Fr Leonard continues to inspire through both study and action. Fr Richard told us of his student days, when he sang at weddings to earn pocket money and how he was sometimes aghast at the nature of the chosen lyrics.

Dr. Richard Leonard, SJ directs the Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting. As a not-for-profit group, Cataylst for Renewal seeks to promote conversation for the sake of renewal in the Church and our wider society. And I’ve had so many men before.”

But the piècede resistance was the time he was asked to sing ‘Yesterday’, the 1965 chartbuster by The Beatles, with the line “Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away.” He couldn’t help himself: “I burst out laughing.

My stomach was going churn, churn, churn.”

Eventually, having conquered his nerves, he strode out to the living room where his mother was watching television. He’d never actually said those words to his mother before.

He remembers the moment clearly. I was ordained 30 years ago and I cannot tell you how many funerals I’ve done for young people who’ve taken their own lives.

He is also a member of the Australian Catholic Media Council.

He did graduate studies at the London Film School and has a PhD from the University of Melbourne. Yes, really, he sang. His stomach was churning. Well, perhaps speak is an understatement. And yes, it means that we don’t succumb to road rage when we’re behind the wheel just because someone has cut us off.

“We just don’t know what problems anyone is carrying and so what we can do is treat them with kindness.

He gesticulated. He has served on juries at the Cannes, Venice, Berlin, Hong Kong, Warsaw, Montréal, Brisbane and Melbourne International Film Festivals.