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I’m guilty – not of uploading Monty Python on YouTube, but at least of linking to pirated copies of their skits on this blog. So I heartily rejoice with the announcement of the Monty Python fellows of a dedicated channel … Continue reading →

Cathnews, in reposting Deacon Keith Fournier’s article from Catholic Online “Will Entire Episcopal Diocese Come into Full Communion with Rome?”, is a little inaccurate in optimistically re-entitling the piece “A moment in history for Anglicans and Catholics”. Deacon Keith himself … Continue reading →

I was very impressed about a month or two ago when I came across the work of one very conscientious English bishop, Patrick O’Donoghue of Lancaster (not to be confused with our own very conscientious Bishop Patrick Dougherty of Bathurst). … Continue reading →

As I went to Mass this afternoon, I almost tripped over the multiple electrical leads leading in all directions. There were several big ABC TV trucks outside the Cathedral, and cameras and pews moved, and all sorts of stuff, not … Continue reading →

Exit polls, schmexit polls, I say. But in any case, some people are fascinated by what the “exit polls” (based on answers asked by pollsters as the voters leave the voting booths) have to say about the “Catholic Vote” in … Continue reading →

We act differently when we think people aren’t looking… On our holiday in the King River Valley recently, my family was the last to leave. My wife had washing in the machine, and as the kids were getting restless, she … Continue reading →

SCM wishes Bishop Patrick Dougherty of Bathurst many happy and relaxed years of retirement. Given that his retirement was announced mere weeks after the Dresser case, one has to admire the fact that His Lordship did anything at all. I … Continue reading →

Isn’t he cute? Daniel is the offspring of Pastor Fraser Pearce at epistolae obscurorum virorum. I got a good loooong cuddle with him when visiting Fraser and his family last weekend. BTW, no-one has answered Fraser’s query about the “formal … Continue reading →

Compassion, I have heard it said, is the core of Christian ethics. But it is a devilishly dangerous foundation on which to build an ethical approach to law, precisely because it is allowing a feeling to sway a thought. It … Continue reading →

I have just read an excellent and, I think, important essay in the latest edition of First Things by Thomas Farr entitled “Islam’s Way to Freedom”. The author is described at the end of the article as a visiting associate … Continue reading →