Dr Andrew Quinlan is an Australian liturgist who has been training seminarians in Ukraine for the past 13 years. He discusses the challenges faced by the Church in Ukraine, the communist-built intellectual prisons which persist in post-communist countries, sacramental confusion in the Latin (Western Catholic) Church, and the role of asceticism in the life of faith.

You can find a review of Barry's book at https://newsweekly.com.au/newsweekly/book-review-language-in-the-liturgy-past-present-future/

Dr Philippa Martyr is an historian, university lecturer and academic researcher. Her new book is "Witness: The Future Catholic Church in Australia" and she joins Mark to discuss issues such as vocational discernment and the single life, selling off the Catholic Education system, closing down or reimagining op shops, the amalgamation of dioceses, and the green shoots of Catholic life appearing in Australia.