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Reporter: Why are you a Christian, Schütz? Schütz: Because Jesus Christ is risen from the dead. Reporter: And? Schütz: What do you mean “and”? Reporter: Isn’t there some other reason? Like Spirituality or Religion, or Community or Being kind to … Continue reading →

The Salt and Light folk in Canada have made a documentary about our Saint, Blessed Mary of the Cross (aka, Mary McKillop). Here you go.

Abbott lame, gay churchy loser, says his daughter. The headline for this article in today’s Age, seems to suggest that Tony Abbott’s daughter went to the press with this accusation against her father. In fact, reading between the lines, it … Continue reading →

In the latest edition (Vol 19) of Pointers (the journal of the Chrisian Research Association), there is a table based on the 2006 Australian Census data which gives the “Rates of marriage and de facto relationships occuring within religious groups”. … Continue reading →

It is a vain thing to do, but I have a site meter attached to this blog and I keep an eye on it to see if the blog is “hitting the spot”. Back before I migrated to WordPress, Sentire … Continue reading →

In a post below, I noted the recent ALP Party Conference in which the wording of their platform on marriage was altered to remove reference to “a man and a woman”. I have received some correspondence from Rob Ward, the … Continue reading →

Having just celebrated “Vocations Week” here in Australia, it is good to see the Herald Sun running a good news story with the heading “Catholic seminaries full as religion resurges”. I am firmly convinced that the Catholic Church in Australia … Continue reading →

At the JPII Colloquium mentioned below, I was naughty enough to ask the two Lutheran presenters whether “concupiscence” is a part of human nature or not. That of course led to the old Lutheran/Catholic debate on whether concupiscence was sin … Continue reading →

This is an interesting story.

This article (“Teenagers want sex — but a third get unwanted sex”, The Age August 4, 2009) really makes me sad. It is proof positive that today’s youth have become the victims of their elders’ ideologies. The sex-ed “experts” believe … Continue reading →