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I spent last night watching the DVD Islam: Empire of Faith in the Empires series. I had a ready watch the Kingdom of David DVD about the rise of the kingdom of Israel and its later history and found that … Continue reading →

I don’t normally read horoscopes. Astrology is something that made sense in the pre-scientific world, when the earth was in the centre of the cosmos, and the cosmos was divided into sub- and super-lunary spheres. In that world view it … Continue reading →

Tom Pietsch, fresh back from his honeymoon and back at his computer, has alerted us to this Australian Democrats anti-Christian survey. Get in there an make a difference. The questions are terribly loaded, of course. Like: 21. Would you be … Continue reading →

I’ve been “tagged” to take part in this game, but I think I might revisit it a few times. Here’s my first attempt: 1. One book that changed your life: Fr Fenton nominated Ceremony and Celebration by Paul H D … Continue reading →

Wanna know what the Pope thinks about the place of women in the Church? About the AIDS epidemic in Africa? About the situation in the Middle East? About gay marriage? Well, forget the speculation, because a bunch of interviewers have … Continue reading →

Yay!!!! The Compendium to the Catechism of the Catholic Church is finally on the net in English!! This is after many months when the only available languages were German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovenian. Yes, folks, the Romanian and Slovenian … Continue reading →

I have entered a new passage in my “Conversion retro-blog”: Year of Grace, in which I recount my conversation with Jaroslav Pelikan! [Reader: About time. I thought you would never get to your conversion at this rate.Schütz: Have you read … Continue reading →

I have had a correspondence recently with a bloke who has real problems with the Catholic faith. He writes: None of my family and friends or any catholic that I know, 100’s of them, don’t read,study,remember or obey the Bible, … Continue reading →

Thanks Arabella for this tip. The Cathnews/Online Catholic guys have launched a new forum called “Catholica Australia”. Peregrinus (who often drops into this site for a chat) has a column there. If you have the time, join the conversation.

No. 6 in Cardinal Schönborn’s Creation Catechesis has finally been translated. It is entitled “What is Man that Thou are Mindful of Him? Is man really the “crown of creation?”. Read, learn and inwardly digest, as they say.