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Yes, within weeks of the “pull-no-punches” address of Cardinal Kasper to the House of Bishops of the Church of England warning of the ecumenical fallout should the C of E decide to ordain women as bishops, the Episcopal Church in … Continue reading →

For once I can truly go “Yahoo!” at reading a Yahoo! News report. Following the acceptance of the new mass translations by the bishops conferences of Australia and England and Wales, the US Catholic Bishops Conference has also passed the … Continue reading →

I have been having an interesting discussion with Peregrinus in the comments section of my last blog. I suggest you pop in there and have a look, if you haven’t already. Click on the “comments” at the bottom of the … Continue reading →

Some weeks ago, I read an speech by Fr Timothy Radcliffe (who used to be the head of the Dominicans) called “Overcoming Discord in the Church”, which he gave originally the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress. The intention is honourable. … Continue reading →

I have twice read in recent days comments on the Christian practice of infant baptism as objectionable on the grounds that it is repulsive to assert that newborn infants are “evil”. I can’t track down the first reference (it was … Continue reading →

Why do I like reading Spengler (the Asia Times columnist, that is)? I’m not really sure, but I was probably converted by his column “Women as Priests”. His columns often end up in different places from which they start, but … Continue reading →

I have added another entry to my retro-conversion-blog “Year of Grace”.

I sometimes take time to get around to things. Here is another that has sat with me for more than a fortnight. I was reading Papa Benny’s catechesis on St Peter which he gave at his Wednesday Audience on May … Continue reading →

Profound apologies to all my regular readers. Over the last week or so, it must have appeared as if I had disappeared from the blogosphere for a bit. (I just had to add “blogosphere” to my spell checker; get with … Continue reading →

Here’s something I had intended to blog some time ago, but didn’t get to it. I only remembered it last night when I was giving my presentation about the Da Vinci Code to the good folks at St Paul’s Lutheran … Continue reading →