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This is really good stuff. I heard the guys who created this campaign on EWTN with Fr Mitch Pacwa today, and I am really impressed. Apparently the response to the ad campaign and the website of CatholicsComeHome.org has been very … Continue reading →

Not this little black duck. One reason is that I really think that to take body parts out of the dead is an act of disrespect to the body. Another is that I think it buys into the whole idea … Continue reading →

I have just been listening to a Vatican Radio interview of Brother Alois, the Prior of Taize. I was very struck by this comment: “We don’t want to create a movement of young people around Taize but we always tell … Continue reading →

In an op-ed piece in today’s Age, Paul Austin writes: A few legal niceties also need to be restated if our justice system is to retain its integrity. Theophanous is entitled to the presumption of innocence and to due process. … Continue reading →

For all my criticism of Stephen Crittenden’s journalistic style (he seems to be under the misapprehension that religion is an observer sport of adversarial politics), I do regret ABC Radio National’s decision to axe The Religion Report (see this report … Continue reading →

Well, “we” (meaning me) don’t think anything yet of the book, because we haven’t read it. All we have done is listen to the author on numerous radio programs, such as The Ark, The Religion Report and Sunday Nights. You … Continue reading →

Something I didn’t know, but picked up in this report from Zenit (also listed here in the official listing), is that Anglican bishop and scripture scholar N.T. Wright (often mentioned in these pages) is an ecumenical observer at the Synod … Continue reading →

The Amateur Catholic B-Team blog has been inactive for some time, but I always was rather proud of their very accurate slogan: “We don’t write books or do speaking tours. In fact, we barely do our jobs.” Actually, I am … Continue reading →

“I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever.” – Thomas Jefferson Matthias aluded to this quotation in a combox – but he got the wrong guy. It was Thomas Jefferson … Continue reading →

Stephen Crittenden is quite critical in this interview on the Religion Report with Associate Professor Anthony Burke of the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra, but at one point he lets him off the hook entirely:Stephen Crittenden: Stephen Crittenden: One … Continue reading →