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Not that I blame him, of course. There is, after all, a time and a place for everything, and last Wednesday’s weekly audience was perhaps not the place for this discussion. After mentioning the daughters of Philip, who “prophecied”–an act … Continue reading →

Ad in Saturday’s edition of The Age: Atheist seeks “Someone to thank”. Deities need not apply. Angels will be considered on merit. You think I’m joking, don’t you? Well, this is what German paraglider Ewa Wisnierska said after (unintentionally) breaking … Continue reading →

It was, of course, Socrates who (according to his student Plato at least) said that “The unexamined life is not worth living.” From what we know of him, he might well have also said: “The unexamined opinion is not worth … Continue reading →

A dramatic turn of events takes place in the latest installment of my conversion journal from 2000-2001. See my blog “Year of Grace“.

You don’t have to search far in the realm of the academy to find those who “pooh pooh” blogs. But this is slowly changing, and the discussion below on the meaning of “heresy” on the First Things blog is a … Continue reading →

There has been an discussion on the First Things Blog “On the Square” on the terminology of “heresy”, and its usefulness or otherwise in regard to ecumenical dialogue. Well worth reading. Here are the links: Edwards T. Oaks, SJ. “Are … Continue reading →

I wanted to blog on this last December when the issue was current, but didn’t have access to this article in crikey.com. Now I have it. It is a brief news report by Peter Faris QC on the decision to … Continue reading →

You have to read carefully sometimes. I just about fell off my chair reading the First Things blog this morning when I came across this throw-away line by Richard John Neuhaus “Now that I am to be a bishop, I … Continue reading →

I am about to start teaching a course at Anima Education on Monday night on Jewish stories. Actually, its a course on the Bible called “A Walk through the Scriptures”, but it reminded me of something that a Jewish friend … Continue reading →

In my last post, about Orthodoxy and Communio, I referred to a quote from Garuti’s “The primacy of the Bishop of Rome”. I’ve found it now, and it wasn’t Garuti himself, he was quoting the Orthodox-Roman Catholic Committee in its … Continue reading →