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Imagine my surprise (or you might not need to if you read the editorial in today’s Sunday Age) when I found a picture of St Thomas More staring at me from the top of the Opinion pages in today’s Age. … Continue reading →

They were having a little exercise over on Cooees in the Cloister looking for captions to this picture. Here’s my suggestion. Simon says: “Put your hands on your knees!” – Ha, ha! You’re out, Your Holiness!”

Yes, and its free too! The privileges are that you get to belong to the only club that includes everyone and everything in existence, animal, vegetable, or mineral, living or dead, real or imaginary, near or far, in this universe … Continue reading →

No, not me, I promise. I mean those bloggers (you know who you are–or, perhaps you don’t because you aren’t reading this) who give up blogging and reading blogs for Lent. I fail to understand this. What sort of self … Continue reading →

I have never as much as mentioned the name “David Hicks” in this column so far. Partly the reason for that is that my ability to make up my moral mind on the whole affair is almost as slow and … Continue reading →

In the Cathnews report on the ignorant suggestion by the Times-Online that the Anglican and Catholic Churches were ready to formally reunite any moment now, the Anglican Bishop of North Sydney, Dr Glenn Davies, is quoted as saying: If a … Continue reading →

That woman–Catherine Deveny–is poisonous. Following an Archepiscopal telling off for her last foray into the subject of religion, she has thrown the fat into the fire with this rather nasty little diatribe. She could hardly be more offensive if she … Continue reading →

The Pope made a strange comment (I thought) in his most recent Sunday Angelus mini-homily. He said that Jesus’ command to “Love your enemies” does not consist in surrendering to evil — as claims a false interpretation of “turn the … Continue reading →

Righto, I’m going pay this one. It’s really neat and only needs a tweek or two to be comprehensible in Oz rather than Yankee. It comes from this little site I picked up from another registered blogger on the Catholic … Continue reading →

Most of you by now will probably be bored with my obsession with Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and the rest of the Evangelical Atheistic Bunch. Bear with me. I came across this on YouTube (see for eg. here) but a … Continue reading →