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Pastor Weedon has a blog on the question of “Is there a Lutheran way to Fast?”. Surprise, surprise, he concludes “Yes”, and, even greater surprise, the way to do it is to go without food. Glad we cleared that up. … Continue reading →

“You know that something is changing in society, in history, in culture, when you have to find a name for it,” Cadegan said. “Sometime within the last decade or so, a number of different people at more or less the … Continue reading →

A small initiative of the Anima Network (nb. website hasn’t been updated for 2008) and Catholic Women’s League in Melbourne has produced “Anima Education”, a series of Catholic Adult Education classes. Yours truly is teaching two of these courses this … Continue reading →

I have just finished listening to an excellent recording of Lord of the Flies by the author himself, complete with introduction and prologue giving his own thoughts on the work. I never really understood this book when we read it … Continue reading →

That seems to be about my life at the moment. You can check out reports on two major events that we held here in the Archdiocese together with the Australian Intercultural Society on the Commission Newsblog: the First Catholic Muslim … Continue reading →

…on Sandro Magister’s site, www.chiesa. He references two essays, one by Bishop Gianfranco Ravasi and the other by Rabbi Neusner. Bishop Ravasi’s essay opens like this: One day, responding to his friend Gustav Janouch who was asking him about Jesus … Continue reading →

…and apparently it wasn’t The Times, but The Daily Telegraph (another British rag), which was to blame. Here is his complete explanation of how once again the British media beat up a story in relation to the Vatican.

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men. They are far superior and always have been. William Golding, Introduction to Listening Library audio recording of “Lord of the Flies” (read by the author)

Am I the only one to be a bit mystified by all this talk of the “new deadly sins”? As reported (yes, you guessed it, by The Times–but they are not alone in commiting this–at least venial–sin of poor reporting) … Continue reading →

Like his namesake, Peter Holmes is a bit of a blood hound–or is that a terrier?–when it comes to a mystery. And here’s the current one: The “Missing Verses” from Jeremiah in the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops own … Continue reading →