This is Father Patrick Veriscoe.

And this is Father Gregory Pine.

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Friends, Father Gregory and I are very excited today because we have a marvelous guest

here in our studio who came all the way, all the way from Oceana, to speak to you, the God's

Plaining.

Well, actually, he didn't come all the way for just that.

He came to officiate at the ordinations of our Dominican brothers.

But anyway, without further ado, we're happy to introduce to you, Archbishop, Anthony Fisher.

Archbishop, we're so happy to have you.

Thank you.

Now, you've come all the way from Sydney, where you reign gloriously, as Archbishop.

And you have many other tasks there leading the church.

I wonder if you might give us a sense of what's going on in Australia, what's like to be a Catholic there today.

I think we're going through something of a second spring at the moment in Australia in the church.

I think that's not peculiar to Australia. I think there's something very interesting

happening across the Western world at the moment, but certainly in Sydney, where I am, it's very

noticeable. So we've just had, for the fifth year running, the biggest number of adults seeking

baptism or reception to the church at Easter each year, year after year for five years now.

It's grown. Now, that's happened in a number of American dioceses. It's happened in France,

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