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This blog used to be hosted at Patheos, but I created my own site because I wanted to get away from the increased commercialism. I also wanted to return to the more personal and relational style that I first had when blogging. As the readership increased at Patheos we lost the personal contact. I had to close the comments box because there were simply too many comments to moderate and extremists were using my combox as their soapbox.
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Standing on My Head
“A scene is often most clearly seen when it is seen upside down.” G.K.Chesterton
Pope Francis Approves Church of England Bishops…
...not really, but look at the China-Vatican deal this way: For the last five hundred years the Catholic Church in England was subjected to persecution. After the tyranny of King Henry VIII and his
Dealing with Death by Suicide
Now another bad news day for Catholic priests: a priest in Michigan is being criticized for his handling of the funeral of a young man who took his own life. The story is here.
Characters of the Reformation 5 – Thomas Cromwell
If you thought you knew the history of the Reformation, it is always good to have a refresher course, and there is nobody better to take you through than the inimitable Hilaire Belloc. His Characters
St John of the Cross, Salvador Dali, Mel Gibson and Me
Today is the memorial of St John of the Cross. It is also the anniversary of my ordination as a Catholic priest. So where do Salvador Dali and Mel Gibson come in? The story
Cardinal Coco on Anglican Orders
London's left leaning Catholic paper The Tablet reports here that Cardinal Cocopalmerio-- described laughingly as "one of the Vatican's top legal minds"-- thinks there should be a re-think on Pope Leo XIII's ruling that Anglican orders
What Lucy Saw
In Prince Caspian Peter, Edmund, Susan and Lucy are drawn from a country railway station in England, to a Narnia that is thousands of years older than when they were there last. (Narnian time, they
