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Well, you won’t find it on the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith website, and only a summary was issued by VIS yesterday and included in Zenit, EWTN etc., BUT a bit of a google has found a PDF … Continue reading →

It was a little unfortunate that in the week in which our +Denis gave Elizabeth a well deserved hiding for her comments on liturgical translations, she should publish one of her occasionally excellent pieces, this time on distinguishing between bona … Continue reading →

I have just completed the annual Ecumenical and Interfaith Bulletin and published it on the Commission Webpage. If you want to know what I have been doing all year when I wasn’t blogging, this is what. You can view the … Continue reading →

Then he has another think coming. I missed reading The Age yesterday morning. I saw it this morning. Front page headlines: “It took over my life”: Abortion Case that brought years of pain Poor Prof. de Crespigny. Here’s what he … Continue reading →

Tick. Or at least “Tick” later this evening. John L. Allen, reporting the USCBC Doctrinal Committee’s verdict on the theology of Peter Phan, added this little throw away note: This Friday, a new Vatican document, “Doctrinal Notes on Some Aspects … Continue reading →

I had lunch today with Jeff Tan, another Melbourne Catholic Blogger whose website is One Bread, One Body. It is great to touch base with eachother like this–and a bit of a luxury, given that many visitors to this blog … Continue reading →

America, the US Jesuit Catholic weekly, has brought to light an piece that was written more than 25 years ago in response to Carl Sagan’s classic “scientist” TV series/book “Cosmos”. Entitled “Carl Sagan’s Gospel of Scientism”, the author, William J. … Continue reading →

Ie. not suitable for anyone under 15years old. Good on the Australian Censors for that one. Mind you, it puts it in the category of the more recent Harry Potter films, and that didn’t stop kids from going to see … Continue reading →

Regular readers of SCM will be aware that we have a “little list” of ecclesiastical offenders which includes “THAT peition”, “THAT book by THAT bishop” and “THAT liturgical ‘expert’”. Well, it appears that our +Denis (Archbishop of Melbourne and Metropolitan … Continue reading →

For those who think the only solutions for the current priest shortage are summed up in the “radical” suggestions of “that petition”, here is yet another truly radical suggestion, this time from the Congregation for Clergy. John Allen reports that … Continue reading →