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Today’s edition of “The Australian” carries several stories about the Anglican Solution. In “Anglicans warned about joining Catholic Church in anger and haste”, Anglican Archbishop of Perth, Roger Herft, gives the wise advice: [P]eople of either church “should not seek … Continue reading →

On the way to St Paul’s Lutheran Church Parish camp this afternoon with my daughters, we were stuck in traffic because of this: Flying Wheel kills man in Freakish Freeway Collision. One feels great sympathy for the family of the … Continue reading →

Barney Zwartz (Religion Editor, The Age) must be thrilled to bits to finally be handed a religion story big enough for the front page of his newspaper (and which doesn’t mention the abuse scandal anywhere…). He has the Holy Father … Continue reading →

Most of the comments at the end of David Yeago’s essay IN THE AFTERMATH are positive. Few take the perspective that I am about to take in this and future posts on the topic (mainly because all the comments, so … Continue reading →

Statement of the Catholic Bishops of Victoria, Australia, on the first anniversary of the decriminalisation of abortion 22 OCTOBER 2009  How can you help? Three things you can do 1. Come, pray and be inspired. On 25 October 2009, come … Continue reading →

While a lot is going on among the Anglicans, we should not loose sight of the fact that there are things going on among the Lutherans as well. The recent decision of the 2009 Churchwide Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran … Continue reading →

Many thanks to Andrew Rabel for forwarding this link on to me from Robert Moynihan at Inside the Vatican. Andrew has his own report included in this. So many questions yet to be answered! http://insidethevatican.com/newsflash/2009/newsflash-oct-20-09.htm

Well, well, well. So it has finally happened. Doing things backwards, as they often do, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has released an explanatory note on an Apostolic Constitution that has yet to see the light of … Continue reading →

Cathy: Mao’s Last Dancer is a truly beautiful film. It tells the story Li Cunxin’s remarkable rise to fame as a dancer and is based on his autobiography of the same name. Selected from his village in rural China at … Continue reading →

Review Article by David Schütz In the near future English speaking Catholics are going to face a challenge unlike any since the introduction of the English liturgy forty years ago: the new English translations of the Roman Missal. It must … Continue reading →