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You will have heard all the ABC hype about the new Matt Smith Dr Who being available on I-View from Midnight, but the kids, wife and I will skip it and watch it the good old fashioned way on Sunday … Continue reading →

This story in The Age raises interesting questions: One of these paintings is by a 17th-century Dutch master, the other has won a $25,000 Australian landscape prize . Be your own judge: is this a copy or what? I know … Continue reading →

Well, this gives a whole new meaning to the term “Militant Atheism”: Call to hold Pope over abuse cases. The Age reports Dawkins’ article in the Washington Times in which he calls the Pope: – “former head of the Inquisition” … Continue reading →

Well, silence does not suit me. I admit it. Day after day I lay in my bed recovering from a sore back, each morning my daughters bring me the latest edition of Melbourne’s premier rag, The Age, and (glutton for … Continue reading →

Sometimes life is just not fair. I mean I did say to some one towards the end of our three day Symposium on Death & Dying that when it was all over I intended to go home and go to … Continue reading →

I wonder if someone might not organise an equivalent event in Melbourne? Sorry I haven’t been posting much. We are in the middle of our Interfaith Symposium on Death and Dying and I am having to find a third end … Continue reading →

I was mercifully spared the usual Fairfax breakfast menu over the weekend (I read The Age as a voluntary act of penance…), as the fill-in holiday newspaper deliverer gave us the Herald Sun two days in a row. But I … Continue reading →

I was flicking through my copy of the Manual of Indulgences last night, thinking: If there is a plenary indulgence for Maundy Thursday and one for the Easter Vigil, I wonder if there is one for Good Friday? And lo … Continue reading →

Well, Sentire Cum Ecclesia has been at this WordPress site now for just on a year, and in the last year, readership has returned to and finally exceeded the level of the old Blogspot days. In March 2009, we had … Continue reading →

Here is a little ditty by Heinz Zimmermann that I learnt as a child, which I would like to share with you all. The tune is cheery and bouncy and may be accessed here on midi file. It brings to … Continue reading →