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A little game of the imagination here. I want to pick your brains (or at least your opinions, which may or may not be the same thing!). Imagine that it is the First Sunday in Advent, 2011. Imagine that this … Continue reading →

There is a rather unusual article by Dr Jodi Death of the Queensland University of Technology School of Justice in today’s edition of The Age, “The divine act of forgiveness has cloaked decades of abuse” (noting, of course, that as … Continue reading →

Well, it didn’t quite work for me, I can tell you. (This is one time when I would be keen to know PE’s take on an issue.)  I was left afterwards asking WTF was that all about? Sorted most of … Continue reading →

Great news! There is to be a launch of Fr John Fleming’s book “Convinced by Truth” (click link to order) here in Melbourne. Details as follows: Caroline Chisholm Library and Connor Court Publishing invite you to the launch of Convinced … Continue reading →

Cf. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/new-mass-translates-to-more-traditional-catholicism/story-e6frg6nf-1225869831279 HT to Andrew Rabel for this. Andrew writes: Dear friends, Tess Livingstone (author of a few books on Cardinal George Pell of Sydney), has written a terrific piece on what to expect with the new translation of the … Continue reading →

David MacLauchlan, the producer of “Spirit of Life” TV program on Channel 31 (on which I have been a guest a couple of times) has asked me to do what I can to drum up financial support to keep his … Continue reading →

I was rather bemused by an article in The Age a few days ago reporting that Scientists announced a bold step on Friday in the enduring quest to create artificial life – they’ve produced a living cell powered by manmade … Continue reading →

Archbishop Mark Coleridge has released a Pentecost Pastoral Letter on the sexual abuse scandal. I have read it all through, and find it to be a very serious, considered and balanced appraisal of the situation, which also holds out an … Continue reading →

This isn’t a proper “Cathy and David at the Movies” column, because our publisher, “The Inside Story” (parish magazine of St Paul’s Box Hill) is in abeyance at the moment; and because Cathy isn’t here to add her two bob’s … Continue reading →

Most readers of this ‘ere blog, will know that I greatly admire the works of Dairmaid MacCulloch, the Oxford Church Historian who is the author of The Reformation: Europe’s House Divided and A History of Christianity (and who has his … Continue reading →