Richard is an Australian Jesuit and author of a number of books including The Law of Love: Modern Language for Ancient Wisdom.
Dear Movies by Peter Malone is a love-letter to the cinema as a window on the world.
Devotion to Mary has been a source of debate in recent years as people lament that some Catholics have no devotion to the Mother of God at all, while others harbour concerns that some Mariology displaces Christ in whom redemption is claimed.
A Jesuit priest once asked an ordination class not if they were strong enough to be ordained, but if they were weak enough? At his own ordination, Fr Richard Leonard came to understand what this meant.