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Today being Father’s Day, I went to church with my family at their Lutheran parish (don’t worry–I went to Mass last night). Always a chance to have a good sing. Some of you may not be aware that I have … Continue reading →

Sometimes foreigners can say things that locals would not be caught dead saying (except, that is, the inhabitants of the Cloister, who have that special type of diplomatic immunity that comes with anonymity). A case in point is Rocco Palmo’s … Continue reading →

Two articles have appeared on the National Catholic Reporter’s web site both by my favourite ecclesiastical journalist John L. Allen Jnr: The Triumph of Evangelical Catholicism Liberal Catholicism endures in pastoral church Take my advice and read both of them … Continue reading →

“But I just ask people to think about it a little bit more deeply because it is a very loaded work which means that there are so many different meanings.” – Blake Prize entry Artist, Priscilla Bracks. A friend of … Continue reading →

(Thanks to Cooees for this one. Pity it wasn’t a bit bigger…)

In the same article to which I refer in the blog below, Barney Zwartz writes: On power, the Catholic Church has long treated priests and those in religious orders as a higher caste, separate and superior to laypeople. It doesn’t … Continue reading →

We are sincerely grateful here in Melbourne that The Age has a religion editor who is a believing and practicing Christian. Barney Zwartz’s commentary on religious life in our city is very welcome, as is his blog. Not so welcome, … Continue reading →

135 hits on Sentire Cum Ecclesia in one day!Settle down folks! Actually, your host here at SCE is wondering where you have all been for the last month or so. Things have been a bit quiet. But yesterday and today … Continue reading →

Today I received an email from a regular anonymous reader: Do you have time to answer a question on the sacraments? I was discussing the Sacrament of Reconciliation with someone. This person said that during reconciliation we don’t receive any … Continue reading →

A Muslim friend sent me the following news report: Malaysia daily gets one-month ban By Agencies Malaysia has imposed a one-month publishing ban on a Tamil-language newspaper for printing a caricature of Jesus holding a cigarette and a can of … Continue reading →