On Decmber the first six years ago in his prison journal Cardinal Pell wrote of (the modern world’s) “……. mythology of progress, a mirage of inevitable and universal progress …….” as being “……. exploded again in the crimes of the twentieth century.”
What is truly good is not transitory. It lasts.
Today is the feast day of Saint Eligius, whose honesty reminds me of what I sense reading the Cardinal’s prison journal.
St Eligius is pictured above, in a Juan de Valdés Leal painting of the mid 1650’s, kneeling with a sitting Saint Anthony of Padua before the Virgin Mary.
Beauty and true faith are a great combination.
Geoff Fox, December 1, 2025, Melbourne, Australia
THE CRUCIFIED CARDINAL 