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Standing on My Head
“A scene is often most clearly seen when it is seen upside down.” G.K.Chesterton
The Seven Deadly Sins: Sloth
For Lent 2026: Here begins a series here on the seven deadly sins. First one is the one most forgotten or dismissed as unimportant: Sloth. The common understanding of sloth is probably extreme laziness: [...]
Aliens? What Does the Church Teach?
President Trump has indicated that he wants to release classified files on UFOs, UAPs and aliens. This is being branded by some commentators at "The Great Disclosure" which will upset everything. Some have called [...]
Why the Ash Wednesday Frenzy?
Social media was full of it: pictures of crowded Catholic Churches from Scotland to South Carolina. Catholics rejoicing in "churches fuller than they have ever seen them" and so forth and so on. As [...]
Explaining Transubstantiation
Some time ago in an article for National Catholic Reporter, a prominent Jesuit priest, said he didn't believe in transubstantiation because it was an out of date concept which was impossible for anyone to [...]
The Dictatorship of Sentimentalism
The photo illustrating this blog post pictures Charlie Bączyk-Bell,--a minister in the Church of England who gave an impassioned speech at the Church of England's general synod denouncing their decision not to move [...]
Total Depravity and St John Bosco
What a beautiful soul St John Bosco was! It was while I was serving as a high school chaplain that I came across St John Bosco's philosophy of child discipline. He would advise his [...]
