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The Sunday Age continues its fight against the “injustice” of “last week’s decision by Attorney-General Rob Hulls to grant religious organisations the right to continue to reject employees on the grounds of sex, sexuality, marital and parental status and gender … Continue reading →

You will have to agree that the above picture is an interesting choice to illustrate an article on Catholic priests and preaching. I must say I know that feeling. Listening to your average priest preaching his average sermon is doubley … Continue reading →

The Grand Master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem (who assured us he has not engaged in equestrian activities since he was five years old and has not intention of doing so now that he is … Continue reading →

The Age continues to portray the recent success of the campaign for Religious Freedom in Victoria negatively as “the right to discriminate”. The cartoon above and the ratio of letters (Three to One against) are examples of this. But discrimination … Continue reading →

Geoff Strong of The Age writes: DRIVING a car on one of Melbourne’s freeways or ring roads can feel a bit like paddling a canoe between container ships. It is not for the faint-hearted or the claustrophobic. He ought to … Continue reading →

I can’t find the actual text of Vatican UN Observer Archbishop Silvano Tomasi on the internet, but if reports (see here and here) are to be believed, the statement is not one that could be considered “helpful” in the current … Continue reading →

How silly some secular reporting is. Cathnews is carrying this story from the Irish Times: John Paul ‘to be more than a saint’, the main thrust of which is: AN IRISH Catholic bishop has predicted that Pope John Paul II, … Continue reading →

David:  Peter Jackson produced writer-director Neil Blomkamp’s District 9 – a alien/monster genre movie of incredible originality. Wikus Van De Merwe is a company operative who is put in charge of relocating a slum on the outskirts of Johannesburg with … Continue reading →

You know there is something fundamentally wrong with the world (or perhaps just with the newspaper you are reading) when the media reports a “Good News” story as a “Bad News” story. I refer to today’s Sunday Age story: Government … Continue reading →

I am very intrigued by this story in today’s edition of The Age: School the most dangerous place for young gays. I wonder how such situations are handled in our Catholic schools? First, let me say a couple of things: … Continue reading →