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Now I wonder what you think of this. As Barney Zwartz reports on his blog on The Age website, there has been a little group formed in Melbourne that goes by the rather odd title of the “Ad Hoc Interfaith … Continue reading →

Here is another gem from Fr Neuhaus’ most recent column: Can you get a divorce without a marriage? The Supreme Court of Rhode Island says not. Cassandra Ormiston and Margaret Chambers live in Rhode Island but were wed in Massachusetts … Continue reading →

One cannot work in a job like mine and not be concious of the essential role that religion has to play in society–no less today than at any time in the past. Fr Richard John Neuhaus’ “Public Square” column in … Continue reading →

Okay, after all that stuff about the “directionality” of the Eucharist (ta, PW), I wonder if we have overlooked a simple question: Is the Mass a prayer? There is a lot in that simple question, however. Because if it is, … Continue reading →

After finishing Rowland’s book on Ratzinger (review currently in preparation), I have picked up again N.T. Wright’s “The New Testament and the People of God” (after a long hiatus). And lo and behold, one of the first passages I read … Continue reading →

Where’s the chalk when you need to throw it? I’m currently unable to get a moment’s peace with the shouting of striking teachers filling the streets of quiet Melbourne town… And they used to tell us WE were noisy when … Continue reading →

You have to wonder about the source and basis and quality of this article in Times Online “That Martin Luther? He wasn’t so bad, says Pope”. (See also the comment here that deals with Muslims, Galileo and Luther). Not that … Continue reading →

In the latest edition of First Things, Fr Richard John Neuhaus draws attention to a book called Ecumenism and Philosophy by Father Charles Morerod of the Angelicum in Rome (Sapientia Press). He describes it as follows: Father Morerod persuasively argues … Continue reading →

Catholics might not know the expression “Church Growth”, but the phenomenon of what I call “professionalisation” in the the paradigms of the Church are not unknown. A good example is the rush for “mission statements”. Fr Richard John Neuhaus reports … Continue reading →

Not at my kid’s school they’re not.