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Have you noticed how rattled the Live Organ Transplant Industry is becoming over the latest questioning of their practices? I say “live organ” because a dead organ is good to no one. Whether the patient to whom those organs belong … Continue reading →

I had a very enjoyable lunch today with a young friend by the name of Martin Johannessen. Martin is a Norwegian Lutheran studing journalism at RMIT and preparing to enter into full communion with the bishop of Rome. As part … Continue reading →

Fans of the late, great (atheist) humourist Douglas Adams will need no explanation when I refer to the “Rory Award”, but for the rest of you, I will provide one. The “Rory” is: a) the Award for the Most Gratuitous … Continue reading →

Hardly. And there is a great review in Touchstone magazine of a recent book on the subject of Junia, who, according to St Paul, was “well known among the apostles” (Rom 16:7). I remember when the subject of women’s ordination … Continue reading →

Speaking of organ transplants, you have (surely?) heard the joke about bishops and spinal columns? It seems that Bishop Joseph F. Martino of Scranton in the US got a double transplant at the laying on of hands (which might explain … Continue reading →

To get some sort of handle on what sort of government we, the people of Victoria, have elected, get a load of this story in this morning’s edition of The Age: “‘Indirect interest’ rule slap in face of democracy: Burnside”. … Continue reading →

I always assumed that the Religion Report would be improved with the removal of Stephen Crittenden. But this morning’s program – completely lacking in any manifestation of the presence of Stephen Crittenden whatsoever – was just plain boring. They just … Continue reading →

The Law tells you. I laughed out loud at the brekkie table this morning when I read this letter from Dr Craig French, director of intensive care, Western Health, Footscray, in The Age (which, for some reason, has been edited … Continue reading →

This morning the employees of the agencies of the Melbourne Archdiocese benefited from a presentation by local Cistercian monk and scholar, Fr Michael Casey, from Tarrawarra Abbey about 60km away from here in the Yarra Valley. He finished his presentation … Continue reading →

Early this year the general congregation of the Society of Jesus took place in Rome. We all hoped that it might mark a turn around for this once great order and a recommittment to the intention of their founder that … Continue reading →