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Many newspapers and agencies (eg. here and here and here) are carrying the Reuters report about a comment made by Cardinal Bertone to the Italian newspaper “La Stampa” in which he reportedly said that the Pontifical Council for Inter-Religious Dialogue … Continue reading →

A large op-ed piece entitled “With God on side” in The Sunday Age today takes up Catherine Deveney’s gushing review of Richard Dawkin’s documentary “The God Delusion?” from last week’s Saturday Age. The author, Cheryl Lawrie, works for the Uniting … Continue reading →

Also in this morning’s paper was the article “No doctor, no midwife — women go it alone” on “freebirthing”. It is quite a heartwarming article–you feel for the mother after the medical interventions of the first two births. Child three … Continue reading →

I am having a rare moment of a lazy morning at home on the Sabbath. No, I’m not skipping mass for the sake of a good lie-in (that would be a mortal sin)–it is my intention to attend the Latin … Continue reading →

I can’t for the life of me think of a caption for this one. Can you?

I love this picture. Fr Z. at WDTPRS has asked for captions. “So? Is the Pope a Catholic?”

For those following my conversion retro-blog “Year of Grace”, this is just an announcement that another section of the diary I kept between Easter 2000 and Easter 2001 has been posted.

I hate to say it, Peregrinus, but Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez has just retracted his controversial statement to TIME Magazine which I commented on in my previous blog. AND (I really hate to say this) I was right and you were … Continue reading →

Catholic readers may not have heard of Richard J. Mouw. Protestants will have though. He is president of the Fuller Seminary–yes, the home of “Church Growth”–but he is also on the Catholic and Evangelicals Together team with Fr Richard John … Continue reading →

Good grief–what happened yesterday? I received more than double the normal number of visitors. If you are new, welcome–please feel free to drop in a comment or two and let me know you were here!