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I have made a new entry into my other blog, “Year of Grace”, in which I publish a journal I kept during the year of my conversion between Easter 2000 and Easter 2001 (a whole five years ago! Gosh!).

Have I already mentioned somewhere that I once began planning setting up an online journal called “In-line Catholics”? Over at Online Catholics (where you have to pay to get the benefit of the wisdom and opinion of the Australian Catholic … Continue reading →

How bloody frustrating. You know that I have been following Cardinal Christoph Schönborn’s Catechetical lectures on Creation. Well, they translated lectures one to four into English, but since then he has given two more lectures (five and six) and they … Continue reading →

Thank you, John Allen, for drawing the world’s attention to a lecture given recently by Bishop Donald W. Trautman at St John’s, Minnesota entitled: “The Relationship of the Active Participation of the Assembly to Liturgical Translations”. Trautman is secretary of … Continue reading →

My worst fears have been confirmed. Take a look at this week’s Word from Rome by John Allen Jnr, and tell me if it isn’t rather more “Word from the U.S. of A.” than from Rome. I really really really … Continue reading →

Read, learn, and inwardly digest, my dear people. Cardinal Arinze, the Terror of “Northern progressives” from the “deep South”, has issued this gem on the liturgy: Hearts and Minds: thinking about and celebrating the Liturgy. This time last year, Cardinal … Continue reading →

“That’s just what Jesus said, sir.” Ah yes, a quotable quote for every occasion, that’s what Monty Python is. Today’s occasion is the publication of the Brack’s Government’s intended changes to the Racial and Religious Tolerance Act. There are a … Continue reading →

Okay, this one got me hot under the collar some years ago when it was first pushed here in Australia by the Uniting Church and the Lutheran Church. Originally the brain child of Rev. Dr. Norm Habel, it appears to … Continue reading →

I have posted an update on my “Year of Grace” retro-blog about my conversion between Easter 2000 and Easter 2005.

This is amusing. Bishop John Cunneen of the Catholic Diocese of Christchurch, NZ, believes that: “semi-nude jelly wrestling is an odd way to commemorate Easter.” We have to agree.