Michael Putney

I just heard about this interview with Bishop Michael Putney of Townsville  (which is on the North coast of Queensland, near the tropics).
I first heard about him in a radio programme about meditation. He became interested in this and introduced a period of meditation at the start of every day in the Catholic schools in the Diocese of Townsville,  for all classes, from Kindergarten to year 12.

One of the places in the Diocese is the Aboriginal community of Palm Island, and the meditation in the school on Palm Island was the subject of the radio programme I listened to.

Apparently the meditation was valued by all the students and teachers in the schools, and Bishop Putney observed that the small children in remote areas were in fact praying and meditating in the same way as Medieval monks.

Now, I heard that Bishop Putney has terminal cancer, and he talks about this in this interview: