Gail Freyne
Gail Grossman Freyne is a family therapist, mediator and author. Her most recent book is The Curious Case of Inequality: A Journey for Justice with Dorothy L. Sayers.
Gail's recent articles
2 July 2022
Towards a new hopefulness
My hope is that our lives will declare this meeting open. June Jordan
12 April 2021
Another attempt to mute the voices of Catholic women
My text for today is taken from the Book of Genesis, as translated by John Milton:Hee for God only. Shee for God in him.Paradise Lost, 1667.
1 November 2020
Hand Washing or Social Distancing in the Time of Pell
The parish priest, Jorge Bergoglio could afford the luxury of welcoming with open arms an old colleague whom he believed to have been falsely accused of sexual abuse. Even as Pope Francis he could have indulged himself with warm greetings in private. But the public display in photographs and videos of unqualified acceptance - most headlines have called it vindication - has profoundly dismayed thousands of survivors and their families around the world.
16 June 2020
A Plenary of Broken Promises?
When the people in the pews get so restless that evidence of deceptive dealing at the top of the Catholic Church in Australia starts falling off the back of trucks these same leaders should know that they have a calamity looming on their collective horizon.