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Two hours sleep before waking at 2am to leave for ANZAC Cove and the Dawn Service. Emre has been working miracles. Not only had he finally confirmed (thanks to the Turkish government) that we had seats in the VIP enclosure, … Continue reading →

It is very late. We travelled from Istanbul to Canakkale on the European side past Gallipoli and across the ferry. We arrived at 6:30pm and have had dinner and gone to a sufi music and whirling dirvish concert (the latter … Continue reading →

I wasted an hour th?s morn?ng mess?ng around try?ng to get photos uploaded to the Blog. Gave ?t up–?t takes far too long, and there ?s too much to see and do here! Our f?rst stop th?s morn?ng was to … Continue reading →

I prayed for you all ?n the great Church (sorry-Museum) of Hag?a Soph?a th?s morn?ng. Really. If I know you, I prayed for you. What a bu?ld?ng. There ?s h?story and sanct?ty ?n every stone–worn smooth by centur?es of worsh?ppers … Continue reading →

It ?s currently 10:30pm Turk?sh t?me, wh?ch would mean ?t ?s about 5:30am ?n Melbourne. I have not slept more than 4 hours ?n the last 48 and I should be th?nk?ng of go?ng to bed. The fl?ght was long. … Continue reading →

At a quarter past midnight tonight, I am doing something I have never done in all 41 years of my life: I am travelling outside of Australia. Yes, dear Readers, your well informed informant is nought but an imposter, an … Continue reading →

Wandering down the corridor of our office block, the Cardinal Knox Centre (affectionately called “The Bunker” for obvious reasons for anyone who has ever seen it), I bumped into no less a figure than Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez SDB! I had … Continue reading →

When quoting Tertullian on Heretics, one is always tempted to say “It takes one to know one”… Nevertheless, from the time when he was still an orthodox catholic Christian, here is an interesting snippet that I hadn’t come across before: … Continue reading →

For those of you who have been reading my “Year of Grace” Conversion Retro-Blog, I have just posted another entry. If you haven’t discovered it yet, my friend Peter Holmes, who preceded me into the Catholic Church, has also posted … Continue reading →

With the restoration of the Permanent Diaconate in Melbourne, there is inevitably the old chestnut about whether women can be deacons. It is pointed out that there were “deaconesses” in the early Church, so why not now? Why not, indeed? … Continue reading →