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One thing about being a loyal Catholic is that you are always ready to be corrected in one’s theological and moral opinions by the Church’s supreme magisterium. This is a case in point. In the comment string of a previous … Continue reading →

January 26th is Australia Day. We are a patriotic people and observe our national holiday in the traditional manner: viz this Australia Day ad in today’s paper: Tomorrow is a public holiday. Today wasn’t. I was at work today. A … Continue reading →

Update: How embarrasing. I posted the following blog this morning after reading THE WRONG WDC MESSAGE!!! I read the 2009 message rather than the new 2010 message. (Thought it sounded familiar…). What to do? Do I scrap the post? or … Continue reading →

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Unknownst to me yesterday when I was blogging on Msgr Marini’s talk at the Confraternity of Catholic Clergy Conference, the Broken Bay Institute had already made a Media Release declaring “FR ANSCAR CHUPUNGCO LAUNCHES … Continue reading →

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season … Continue reading →

Speaking to several friends who were in Rome for the Conference of the Confraternity of Catholic Clergy, I hear it was a great success. About 80 priests attended, a quarter of whom were from Australia. Despite the fact that the … Continue reading →

It is hard to believe that there are people out there who still believe that John Cornwall’s “Hitler’s Pope” is a work with any historical value – but Douglas Bloomfield, writing yesterday in the Jerusalem Post (“Hitler’s pope was no … Continue reading →

Deo Gratias! In this interview with Rabbi Jacob Neusner reported in Zenit today, Neusner reveals that the Pope told him that Volume 2 of “Jesus of Nazareth” is complete. What a relief! When the Holy Father broke his wrist last … Continue reading →

This article by a member of the Republican Movement in the Sydney Morning Herald puts forward one of the stupidist arguments I’ve ever heard for abolishing our Constitution Monarchy: Prince William cannot marry a Catholic, therefore we should have a … Continue reading →

It’s the “Week of Prayer for Christian Unity” in the northern hemisphere – we celebrate it in the week leading up to Pentecost down under – and Papa B. has dedicated an entire Wednesday audience to the topic: I have … Continue reading →