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HT to Adam for this link to a Daily Mail article in Britain: But who can doubt that the Pope’s central theme deserves a hearing in a society increasingly devoted to instant self-gratification? Britain is a country riven by family … Continue reading →

Forget Gay Marriage – the Greens, according the ABC TV news tonight – are going for the jugular: Bob Brown has announced that the first thing on their agenda is to get the law changed so that the Territories have … Continue reading →

The Age today reprinted a part of an article originally published in The Guardian by Andrew Brown on the Pope’s visit to England. Fr Z. has a link to another one, in which Brown declares: This was the end of … Continue reading →

So asks the PM in reference to parliament, and so asks the Australian Anglican Primate in reference to the General Synod currently underway in Melbourne.

Reading Glosses From An Old Manse, I see that the Bearded One of Canterbury is also having ecumenical talks with the Bearded One of Volokolamsk (I wonder what the Holy Father would look like with a beard… Do you think … Continue reading →

ROTFL with this one. HT to Josh. I gather that at Twickenham on Friday there were two groups of protestors ; the ultra-gay lobby and the ultra-Protestants. The police were out in force to keep them from really spoiling the … Continue reading →

The Vatican Information Service has released a “communique” (not a “joint statement”) about the meeting of Pope Benedict with Archbishop Williams. My emphases and [My Comments] “Fifty years after the first meeting of a Pope and an Archbishop of Canterbury … Continue reading →

Continuing to follow the Holy Father’s teaching ministry in Britain, here is an excerpt from his speech yesterday in Westminster Hall: And yet the fundamental questions at stake in Thomas More’s trial continue to present themselves in ever-changing terms as … Continue reading →

Some bits from the Pope’s address to the Ecumenical Meeting and Archbishop Williams address at Evening prayer. Pope Benedict said: This year, as we know, marks the hundredth anniversary of the modern ecumenical movement, which began with the Edinburgh Conference’s … Continue reading →

Venerable (Blessed as of tomorrow) John Henry Newman is a hero of mine, perhaps, you might say, for obvious reasons. But in fact, he has had a special place in my life since I was a Lutheran seminarian, long before … Continue reading →