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“Don’t Lose The Merit”– Keep Your Lenten Sacrifices Secret and Safe
When I spent a lot of time hanging around the Toronto Oratory, lo! these ten years ago, I was always hearing from the good fathers about St. Philip Neri, his spiritual approach and his programme of...
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No Third Way: The Fundamentals of Rationality
It did seem as though many of the Synod fathers were proposing something that is logically impossible. It was not said out loud, but the implication was that they were asking, “Between yes and no,...
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We Should Care For Animals, But They Don’t Have Rights
I like lions. I like whales, cephalopods, glow worms, wildebeests, butterflies, stick insects, frogs and all types of cnidaria (that’s jellyfish, son). I was kind of sad when I saw Cecil the lion got...
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No, the Pope Can’t Order them to Stay, or Return to the Synod
The other thing also is that as the Synod begins to wear on, there’s an awful lot of people right now, faithful Catholics, who are becoming concerned, and many laypeople aren’t really sure what they...
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Late and Lost Vocations: the Extinction of “Traditional” Nuns
Hands up everyone who is a) a woman, b) single, between the ages of 40 and 50 and c) believed she had a vocation to religious life from her earliest memory. Come on, get ‘em up… you know who you are....
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In a Time of Desolation, A Calling for New Beguines?
What if there were a place for women to go who love the Lord, who felt drawn to a life of prayer and intimate union with Him, who desired a life devoted to poverty, chastity and obedience but who, for...
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In Rome and Safe as Houses
Thank God for friends! This was what I saw when I dashed out of the Grotta Azzura hotel. I didn’t know this video was being made. It must have been no more than about two minutes after the quake. I was...
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The Bishops Enter the War
The week of November 14 to 21st, 2016 will be remembered as the one in which open war was finally declared between the two long-contending factions in the Catholic Church. And while this has caused a...
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How Many Fingers is Francis Holding Up Now? Amoris Laetitia and Submission
We are hearing more complaints of division. Why, goes the lament, is the Church divided? Why can we not simply “put our differences aside”? Simply, because two logically opposed things can’t both be...
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Fra’ Matthew Festing: A Life of Service
Given what we know about the general climate in the world of ecclesiastical politics right now, how would we imagine a good and simple man would fare? Someone for whom decency, honesty, integrity and a...
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Understanding Pope Francis: The Need for a New Narrative Framework
(Image: Left to Right, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio; General Jorge Videla, dictator of Argentina from 1976 to 1981) “Jorge Mario Bergoglio… has been a staunch supporter of US imperial interests in...
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Ravens and Saints
I seem to be developing a particular love and admiration for our corvid friends lately, with a pair of clever and beautiful magpies visiting my garden in Norcia quite regularly and huge numbers of...
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Late and Lost Vocations: the Extinction of “Traditional” Nuns
Hands up everyone who is a) a woman, b) single, between the ages of 40 and 50 and c) believed she had a vocation to religious life from her earliest memory. Come on, get ‘em up… you know who you are....
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In a Time of Desolation, A Calling for New Beguines?
What if there were a place for women to go who love the Lord, who felt drawn to a life of prayer and intimate union with Him, who desired a life devoted to poverty, chastity and obedience but who, for...
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In Rome and Safe as Houses
Thank God for friends! This was what I saw when I dashed out of the Grotta Azzura hotel. I didn’t know this video was being made. It must have been no more than about two minutes after the quake. I was...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Bishops Enter the War
The week of November 14 to 21st, 2016 will be remembered as the one in which open war was finally declared between the two long-contending factions in the Catholic Church. And while this has caused a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How Many Fingers is Francis Holding Up Now? Amoris Laetitia and Submission
We are hearing more complaints of division. Why, goes the lament, is the Church divided? Why can we not simply “put our differences aside”? Simply, because two logically opposed things can’t both be...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Fra’ Matthew Festing: A Life of Service
Given what we know about the general climate in the world of ecclesiastical politics right now, how would we imagine a good and simple man would fare? Someone for whom decency, honesty, integrity and a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Understanding Pope Francis: The Need for a New Narrative Framework
(Image: Left to Right, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio; General Jorge Videla, dictator of Argentina from 1976 to 1981) “Jorge Mario Bergoglio… has been a staunch supporter of US imperial interests in...
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Ravens and Saints
I seem to be developing a particular love and admiration for our corvid friends lately, with a pair of clever and beautiful magpies visiting my garden in Norcia quite regularly and huge numbers of...
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