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On “The Anglo-Catholic” blog comes this short discussion on Celebrating the Epiphany on January 6th. The question there is whether the new Anglican Ordinariates will be allowed to continue to celebrate Epiphany on January 6th or will they be required … Continue reading →

A commentator (another from Ireland) has asked me to promote their blog Catholic Heritage and their journal CHRISTVS REGNAT. Worth a look.

This news just in from Damian Thompson at the Telegraph: I’ve just heard that Mgr Graham Leonard, the former Bishop of London who became a Catholic and was made a (married) Monsignor by Pope John Paul II, has died. Mgr … Continue reading →

Cardinal Pole has an interesting post on his blog analysing Bishop Ingham’s announcement of The Diocese of Wollongong’s Pastoral Planning process. I am pretty “ho-hum” about these measures. “Pastoral Planning”, and all the energy that goes into it, often seems … Continue reading →

Dr Tighe sent me the link to this post on Weedon’s Blog: A Few Gems from Ratzinger on Liturgy. The Ratzinger quotes are indeed “gems”, but the real entertainment is in the comments string, starting right off with this comment … Continue reading →

Thanks to a comment left on this blog a few days ago, I was led to this rather thoughtful Catholic blog from a New Zealander – the author seems to be concerned with many of the same issues that we … Continue reading →

Recently a comment was left on the blog by one “Jakian Thomist”, and that led me to his blog “The Duhem Society”, the purpose of which is “to study the writing of Pierre Duhem and Stanley L. Jaki, two great … Continue reading →

In a comment towards the end of the string on my previous post Catholic means “Here comes Everybody!”, I quoted Pope Benedict as saying in August 2008: When I was younger I was rather severe. I said: the sacraments are … Continue reading →

I don’t normally clog up my blog with personal pictures. But we have had a good Christmas, and so I thought I might share a few memories with you. At every family celebration at the in-laws there is a competition … Continue reading →

I received a strange comment (unpublished) to an old 2007 Christmas post on this blog. The comment was: it is interesting that no one has picked up on the pope’s citation of Origen in the homily–namely, Origen’s insistence that pagans … Continue reading →