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Over on Marco’s blog he puts up a quotation from Stephen Ray’s book Upon this Rock about the ecclesial necessity of a universal primate for the universal Church. Well, don’t take a Catholic’s word for it, Marco. I have just … Continue reading →

No, do not adjust your computer screen. Believe it or not, but Kmart is actually flogging off these “upside down” trees as the latest in Christmas decorating fashion. One has to wonder. What one finds oneself wondering is: is this … Continue reading →

It seems like everyone wants to have a go at Mr Dawkin’s new book “The God Dellusion“. On Nov 4, ABC Radio National had a go with “The Science Show versus God“. (One wonders who would win in a real … Continue reading →

I read a rather depressing piece by Joseph Bottum in the October edition of First Things called “When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano: Catholic Culture in America”. It is an immensely long but immensely detailed account of what happened … Continue reading →

While we’re at it (as they say over at First Things), Sandro Magister also has snippets from Pope Benedict’s address to the Swiss Bishops. Here he has something really interesting to say about what has come to be called the … Continue reading →

The Pope said this to the German Bishops: In this regard [ie. in regard to the Seminaries], Vatican Council II, in its decree ‘Optatam Totius’, established important norms that, unfortunately, have not yet been completely implemented. This is particularly true … Continue reading →

Over at “Always Yes“, Tom has asked the question “People or Gaia?”. Curiously, this links in with some of my own thoughts over the last week or so. Last weekend, the Victorian Council of Churches held its rural conference in … Continue reading →

The problem with listening to your radio programs on MP3 is that you end up hopelessly out of date. The benefit is that sometimes you listen to stuff back to back and get to draw conclusions. This is the case … Continue reading →

We got a bit of a clue when our beloved and behated Melbourne cartoonist-prophet, Michael Leunig, came up with this cartoon, but then we got the full picture (so to speak) with his article in last Saturday’s A2 “The Message … Continue reading →

A very useful column by Fr Edward McNamara in the Liturgy Questions section on the Zenit site. A reader asks why, when Pope St. Pius V “set in stone for all time the exactness of the holy sacrifice of the … Continue reading →