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You will remember the long discussion last year on this blog about the phrase “Sentire Cum Ecclesia” (see here and here and here and here for examples). Of course, the phrase which I use as the title for my blog … Continue reading →

about the process of entering into the diaconate, which I formally began yesterday by attending an interview with the director of the Office for the Diaconate. It would be a fascinating story–one to rival my year of grace journal–but I … Continue reading →

I have always shared the opinion of one of Jane Austen’s fictional characters that to be “a person of information” is a thing to which one might reasonably aspire. However, when one achieves this exalted rank, the pressure to always … Continue reading →

There is a thoughtful piece on the “poping” of ex-prime minister of Britain, Tony Blair on the America website (free registration required for whole article) “From Thames to Tiber“. Of all that has been written on this not insignificant event, … Continue reading →

Mike asked in the Combox to the last post: What is it like at your wife’s Lutheran parish? Tell us more! Would her services be fairly liturgical, solemn etc, and if so, how does the evangelisation operate in that framework? … Continue reading →

I have posted some of Barry Kearney’s ideas before. Barry is businessman who is a parishioner at Park Orchards. He is a man with his heart in the right place and ready to think of some ways of doing things … Continue reading →

That’s a question that Jeff Tan asks on his blog. And it is a good one–one that became acute for me about six and a half years ago… Jeff’s best answer is that of St Josemaria Escriva–which accords very well … Continue reading →

Dr William Tighe has alerted me to the following title that has just been released: New Book on Women’s Ordination Includes Essays by Several CTS FacultyA collection of essays on the ordination of women, Women Pastors? The Ordination of Women … Continue reading →

that this picture (altered by me from an AAP picture appearing in The Age today in connection with this story on an anti-whaling protest outside the Japanese consulate in Melbourne yesterday) was about banning abortion. Or perhaps they would not … Continue reading →

It is possible to put too much yeast in your bread. You end up with something full of holes. I make this point, because in the Christmas edition of the Yarra Theological Union Newsletter, YTU President Kathleen Williams RSM makes … Continue reading →