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What a strange thing it must be to be a Catholic in Great Britain at the moment. It seems like every opinion about the Catholic Church under the sun is coming home to roost in the expectation of the holy … Continue reading →

I just happened to see this on our media roundup email this morning, a letter in The Australian about the Green’s policy of seeking reintroduction of Death Duties: AS the parent of two sons whom I love dearly, I can … Continue reading →

I have mentioned that I had the pleasure of meeting Gil at the “Christian Traditions” course at CAEC. He has a very nice blog called “Catholics Down Under” at www.ozcatholic.blogspot.com, which I have added to the blogroll.

Sorry for those SCE readers who might prematurely have drawn the conclusion that the host of this ‘ere blog has carked it. The silence of the last few days has been due to the fact that I have been in … Continue reading →

And for the latest, up-to-the-minute news on this question, try this website: www.DoesAustraliaHaveAGovernmentYet.com

I don’t think so. Just a careless mistake on the part of the person who wrote the Media Release for the Catholic Education Office in the Diocese of Parramatta.

Australian federal politics is in a bit of a “Waiting for Godot” situation at the moment, where we have a very unusual situation of a “hung parliament” (for the first time since 1940). I haven’t made any comment yet, because … Continue reading →

I don’t really have any comment to make about this article in The Guardian other than that it is interesting. I thought you might be interested too.

I have just been listening to a number of podcasts from John Cleary’s Sunday Night program on ABC Radio National on the subject of “The Future of the Church”. It all got a little boring after a while (although I … Continue reading →

HT to Christine for this, who has just sent me the links. Dr. Michael Root is a very well respected lay theologian who was Professor of Systematic Theology at Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary in Columbia, SC, and Dean of that … Continue reading →