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There is a nice piece by John Allen on why it looks like I will have a job for life in the ecumenism business. In it, he suggests that we ecumenists should be in a “festive humo[u]r” for this reason … Continue reading →

News this morning seems to follow in a general sort of pattern that has been emerging over the last two weeks: An appeal by Australia’s Catholic Religious has sought the ear of newly elected Prime Minster Kevin Rudd to lead … Continue reading →

My kids love this song. But, of course, they have never seen Rolf perform it. So I found this rather recent version done by the old Board Wobbler and Dobbler himself for them. Unfortunately, it is also a rather abbreviated … Continue reading →

Peregrinus, in the combox to an earlier post, opines that the authors of “that petition” included the call for discussion of women’s ordination because they “wanted a petition with something difficult, something challenging, something radical.” Well, here’s a REALLY radical … Continue reading →

And I’ve read a few, as they say in the classics… In the first half of Alan Jacob’s review, published back when “The Amber Spyglass” was first published (and republished now on the First Things blog), does full justice to … Continue reading →

So the news is in that “That Petition” did receive attention at the recent meeting of the Bishops’ Conference. And we have a formal response, which can be viewed in facsimile on the Catholica Australia website here. The significant clause … Continue reading →

Cathnews carries a story about a new cinema-advertising campaign to be used this Christmas throughout Australia: Archbishop Bathersby said the cinema ad is brief and non-intrusive, showing a montage of images of Catholic life while asking, Have you ever wanted … Continue reading →

This has to be the best news ever for the Catholic Blogging world. Forget Cathnews. Forget The Tablet. Forget the National Catholic Reporter. The Grand-daddy of them all is about to appear on the Internet for the very first time: … Continue reading →

No, it still isn’t up on the Vatican website in English yet, although if you go to this page it is now available in the original Italian, Portuguese, German and Spanish. Given that it was only there in Italian and … Continue reading →

An entry on Peter’s blog about conversion stories reminded me that I haven’t put up a new episode of “Year of Grace” for a while (I have just done so).