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The message of this RealCatholicTV.com seems serious enough. I’m not so sure of the “CNN”-style approach though (“The Vortex”?). Perhaps it doesn’t help that we have had our own “CNN-spoofs” here in Australia (such as The Chasers’ CNNN).

In the newspapers today is the headline: Pope attacks Britain’s gay equality laws. The story comes from the Telegraph, via, I suspect, this UKPA story “Pope attacks equality laws in UK”, but it took The Age to add the word … Continue reading →

Son of Trypho pointed me to a rather bizarre story on ABC Radio’s AM program this morning concerning the fallout of Fr Peter Kennedy’s use of invalid baptismal formulae at St Mary’s in South Brisbane: “Ruthless Church accused of re-writing … Continue reading →

Well big news in Melbourne is that the “Global Atheism Convention” has “sold out”. Apparently they have 2500 coming for the March 12-14 event. Let’s see… World Parliament of Religions got 5,500… so does that mean that the Religions are … Continue reading →

I was going to blog on this on the weekend, but found myself caught up the whole weekend on setting up a new computer at home (what a chore – Windows 7 doesn’t want to talk to half my software! … Continue reading →

Readers know that I read The Age rather than the other daily rag here in Melbourne, despite the fact that its political and moral views are less conducive to me. Quality can be guaged in more than one way… However … Continue reading →

Marco Vervoost has alerted me to the fact that he has a new blog, Ordinary Catholic. Looking at his posts on this blog, I noticed a link to this sermon which Bishop Elliott preached at St Mary the Virgin Church, … Continue reading →

There is an old journalistic saying “publish and be damned”. That seems to be the motto of Sandro Magister on his website www.chiesa.espressonline.it On Monday he published an excellent article reporting on the current state of Catholic-Orthodox dialogue. As the … Continue reading →

Also just published in America Magazine is this: “Defending the New Missal: A response to Father Michael Ryan” by Father Peter M. J. Stravinskas. He writes: I was a freshman in high school when the “vernacularization” of the liturgy began … Continue reading →

Not quite sure what I think of its main point though. The article is by Nicholas Lash of Cambridge, and appears in the latest edition of America Magazine as “Waiting for Dr Newman”.