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Shannon tagged me for the “Five” meme some time ago, so here goes. Five Things in my Freezer 1. Discounted meat from Coles2. last week’s leftover’s (for lunch next week)3. Bacon4. bag of frozen chips5. peas (ditto in my experience … Continue reading →

This time I get to blame that “provocative” planet Mars for my general rudeness and argumentativeness ! Here’s my horoscope for last week from The Sunday Age’s Life magazine: “You want to be certain of someone’s reaction this week, even … Continue reading →

I recently read in one of Terry Pratchett’s novels the saying that it is easy to see things that aren’t real; the tricky thing is to see the things that are really real. In an essay entitled “For a Definitive … Continue reading →

I read a review today by Philip Hughes in the Christian Research Association magazine Pointers (June 2006) of a book called Predicting the Religion: Christian, Secular and Alternative of Futures. In his review, Hughes reports that one of the authors … Continue reading →

Anyone who has visited the ground floor of the Cardinal Knox Centre in recent times would have noticed a large statue of the Sacred Heart in a glass box. It was not the best place to put him, but I … Continue reading →

Here is my “report card” for the Catholic Church on the basis of the results of the Spirituality of Generation Y survey and report. “In February and March 2005, a national telephone survey was conducted with the assistance of the … Continue reading →

Very much worth reading is Dennis Shanahan’s peace in the August 18 edition of The Australian: ‘Heads I win, tails you lose’. He writes about the way that a number of Conservative MPs declared that they would vote against the … Continue reading →

I recently came across reference to Peter Berger’s aphorism that, if India is the most religious nation in the world and Sweden the least religious, then the United States of America is a nation of Indians ruled by Swedes. Apparently … Continue reading →

John Allen, in his latest edition of All Things Catholic, has this to say: “Christianity is supposed to provide an “optic” for reading the world that is different from purely human logic. If that’s true, one would expect Christians to … Continue reading →

Without solicitation, Barry Kearney (a parishioner of St Anne’s Parish in Park Orchards) has forwarded his vision for the “Future Church in Australia” to a very large number of folk in the Archdiocese. He rather innocently suggested that we should … Continue reading →