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A neat little conclusion to the business about the La Sapienzia University’s rudeness to Pope Benedict came at yesterday’s general audience. You can watch the report of the Weekly Audience at Rome Reports here.

The story that a NSW priest has criticised the important development in Catholic Muslim relations that has taken place at the Australian Catholic University shows just what damage an “hermeneutic of suspicion” can do to in inter-religious relations. It also … Continue reading →

There is a classic line in Douglas Adam’s “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” where the philosophers threaten to go on strike. “And who will that inconvenience?” asks the mega-computer, Deep Thought. The protest by some students and faculty at the … Continue reading →

A good analysis of Pope Benedict’s “style” on John Allen’s column this week. First he proposes that there are “three basic psychological possibilities” of response when faced with a challenge: rejecting the challenge through a tenacious defense of those convictions; … Continue reading →

The Age today published the tertiary offers for last year’s Year 12 students. I was in a supermarket this morning waiting to get served in the “fast lane”, while the only girl on the counter was reading the newspaper. Turns … Continue reading →

While in Bendigo recently, visiting Pastor Fraser Pearce, I happened to pick up his copy of Walther’s “Law and Gospel” (the basic theses, without the expanded commentary, are here). I have ever detested Walther–even as a Lutheran–despite having a convinced … Continue reading →

Jeff Tan and LP Cruz are discussing an event non-Filipinos know little about: the Feast of the Black Nazarene. I thought I would look up what Wikipedia had to say about “superstition” (some would regard the idea that Wikipedia can … Continue reading →

Poor old Pete’s been fighting a battle up north on the issue of whether it is appropriate to descrive the presence of Christ in the Eucharist as “physical”. He’s got Paul VI on his side, but unfortunately not many others. … Continue reading →

No, he isn’t celebrating the Extraordinary Form (“Pre-Vatican II Mass”)–he’s doing the novus ordo versus crucifixum, as he has always recommended in his liturgical writings. Reuters reports that the Pope used the Sistine Chapel’s ancient altar set right against the … Continue reading →

Lucian discovered this. No. It is NOT me. Fraser Pearce thinks it could be though…