How much for my sock?
I find it quite alarming how rapidly the gap between rich and poor is widening. And to make matters worse,...
2009
TV violence fosters real-life violence
by Mark Pattison A new American study, to be published in February, shows that exposure to violent media makes adolescents...
Vatican’s star-studded celebration for Galileo
As more than 130 countries celebrate the International Year of Astronomy, the Vatican also turned its gaze toward the heavens....
Some ‘values’ can be a parade of the vanities
I find it quite alarming how rapidly the gap between rich and poor is widening. And to make matters worse,...
Church In Change
by Michael Shackleton – An often-quoted extract from Cardinal Newman’s Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine reads: To live...
Not ‘consubstantial’, please!
The changes in the liturgy are most disappointing and seriously retrogressive. The English is poor; few people in my parish...
When Church works hurt marriages
I have noted some Catholic spouses devote significant time to good works via church activities, yet in some cases it...
Why the ‘liturgical anger’ is fair
By Bishop Kevin Dowling With reference to the letters concerning the new translation of the Order of the Mass, I...
Don’t do for others what they can do themselves
Did New Year sneak up on you and pass you by? Did you celebrate the passing of the old and...
