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My brief foray into the vexed issue of liturgical music and song in the Australian Catholic Churches last week drew a lot of comment, both positive and negative, both here and in that “other” forum. In order to put my … Continue reading →

Check out and bookmark our new Anima Education website at http://animaeducation.wordpress.com/. We hope that this new page will be a place that you will use regularly to check out the upcoming courses of Anima Education, a joint project of Anima … Continue reading →

Well that didn’t take long. I finished reading John Fleming’s new little book “Convinced by Truth” in almost one sitting (not quite). It is a thin volume of collected bits and pieces coming in at 124 pages, falling roughly into … Continue reading →

Christine Hogan on Cath blog has come to the defence of Fr Küng against online charges of heresy. If the working definition of someone who is a heretic is “someone who should be burnt at the stake” (as Christine seems … Continue reading →

Or: Where have all the mothers gone? Strange tidings in the weekend editions of The Age. Remeber a little while back we had the little tyke who didn’t have a mummy but had two daddys (or rather, he was taken … Continue reading →

Good News from Sydney. The Sydney Archdiocese had experimented with permanent deacons for a while in the past, but now, after a considerable rethink, a new permanent program is now being launched. It looks largely as if they are following … Continue reading →

Well, perhaps it is more than that. But it is amazing how often, if a rumour is repeated and spread and repeated often enough, people come to think that it is an “established fact”. That Andrea Tornielli publishes something which … Continue reading →

I receive regular newsletters from John Garratt Publishing. They deal with a lot of stuff which (euphamistically) may be described as “not my cup of tea”, but this resource will be very significant. “Become One Body One Spirit in Christ” … Continue reading →

See here. Update: as Pax says in the combox, we should pray for Catherine. She is a woman of deep spiritual need.

And all the work of the National Liturgical Music Board goes down the gurgler. I’m sorry, but someone has to put a stop to this. The Willow Connection (aka Willow Publishing – I could find no information on the internet … Continue reading →