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The Vatican Press Office has issued a statement with regard to the Cartoon Affair. It is an “unsigned” statement, so we don’t know exactly from which office it emanated. The statement condemns: Any assertion of a “right” to offend the … Continue reading →

I have opened up a new blog called “Year of Grace”. I call it a “retro-blog” as I am using it to post the journal I kept between Easter 2000 and Easter 2001, the year in which I journeyed from … Continue reading →

Credibility (sadly closing his blog on the Feast of St Joseph) put this story up recently:Once it was announced that the devil was going out of Business, and would sell all his tools to whoever would pay his price. On … Continue reading →

You know that the world has gone totally crazy when the National President of the Australian Medical Association, Dr Mukesh Haikerwal, can make the following statement: “it is certainly far safer to terminate a pregnancy with RU-486 than to take … Continue reading →

A popular Missouri Synod Lutheran blogsite Cyberbrethren is run by Rev. Paul T. McCain, the head of Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Missouri. (Actually, he seems to have another blog, also called Cyber-brethren here–all a bit confusing, really…) It is … Continue reading →

In an ENI subscriber article entitled “Kasper warns Rome meeting that search for Christian unity is in danger” (25/1/06), Stephen Brown reports Kasper the Friendly Kardinal as saying:“A profile-based ecumenism, as it is called these days, leads to a certain … Continue reading →

It’s nice to know that some things never change, and Stephen Crittenden (who has returned to the ABC Religion Report after an absence of some time) is one of them. It is a severe handicap for a religion commentator to … Continue reading →

For those who like a challenge, get a hold of N.T. Wright’s New Testament theology. It is a five volume job (I’m not sure if it’s complete yet), and I am only half-way through the first volume. Bishop Wright, as … Continue reading →

What have these three got in common: Cardinal Walter Kasper, Bishop N.T. (Tom) Wright, and Ango-American travel writer Bill Bryson? They were all at Durham University for the mega-pow-wow of mega-ecumenists last week (read John Allen’s report in the National … Continue reading →

While we’re on the topic of the Encyclical, there’s another surprising thing that should not miss our attention. We are used to talking about the Church in terms of the proclamation of the Word and the administration of the Sacraments. … Continue reading →