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Dear friends, The gentle wisdom of one who sits at this table sharing our port and discussion on a regular basis has alerted me to the fact that I expressed myself too “strongly” when I rebutted the complaint from a … Continue reading →

In the last couple of days, I have had an e-conversation with a potential SCE commentator. He had submitted a comment on my “caption competition” of Arch. Vincent Nichols giving the “thumbs up” (see here). His entry read: “I see … Continue reading →

I have been listening to some old podcasts of “Sunday Nights with John Cleary” from the ABC. Today I listened to this one from August last year, a panel discussion on heaven and hell and the afterlife (“Heaven. Who needs … Continue reading →

A good question deserves a good answer. And who better to answer it than a Lutheran pastor who is personally close to at least two of those who have taken this step in the last decade. On his blog, epistolae obscurorum … Continue reading →

Okay, caption competition time. I found this one of Archbishop Vincent Nichols on Cooees, and thought it could do with a funny caption. My entry is: “Ready… aim… ANOINT!”

There are so many shocks to this story (“Abortion Provider shot dead in church”) that one hardly knows where to start. Let’s start where the newspapers don’t start. The first and greatest shock (or so it would be to anyone … Continue reading →

Okay, I haven’t been following this story, but… I remember years ago, Fr Fleming telling me he was once asked to go on a TV chat show in Adelaide to speak about his conversion to the Catholic Church from the … Continue reading →

A good bishop knows that he is called to teach “in season and out of season” – even if that season be the flu season. Swine Flu has hit Melbourne. At last count we have over two hundred cases in … Continue reading →

Marco Vervoost (now blogging at Adventures in Jesus) alerted me to this post on Dave Armstrong’s blog: Untranslated German Works of Martin Luther (Including Two-Thirds of the Weimar Werke: “WA”) : 20 New Volumes in English Forthcoming. Good news for … Continue reading →

A recent conversation with a Lutheran pastor and close friend on “the doctrine of the two kingdoms” (a standard Lutheran “principle” according to Carl Braaten) has led me back to Pope Benedict XVI’s first Encyclical “Deus Caritas Est” in which … Continue reading →