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December 2014

December 20, 2014
Fr Renuard West has posted some pictures of the new St Mary Help of Christians...
December 20, 2014
Did the pagans really worship idols? If so, what was going on? To be precise,...
December 19, 2014
Michael Rose's book Ugly As Sin:  was read by the members of our building committee when...
December 10, 2014
Have you ever really stopped to consider how ugly gossip is? Working in school, family...
December 09, 2014
How can you counter terrorism with torture when torture is a form of terrorism? Here's...
December 09, 2014
Why not order a signed copy of my book The Romance of Religion as a Christmas...
December 08, 2014
On this busy Solemnity there has been no chance to share my thoughts about the...
December 07, 2014
On the second Sunday of Advent I am always intrigued by John the Baptist's diet...
December 06, 2014
In commemoration of St Nicholas who famously slugged the heretic Arius I publish this piece...
December 06, 2014
Catholic convert Charles Moore write in today's Daily Telegraph about the coming demographic winter. This...
December 05, 2014
One of the delights during my recent visit to Missouri was an afternoon tour of...
December 05, 2014
Have you noticed that nobody loves modern churches? Nobody. I mean NOBODY. Seriously. Have you...
December 04, 2014
I have written several posts this week about the brutal iconoclasm that took place in...
December 04, 2014
Deacon is busy publishing parish letters on the Four Last Things for the Sundays of...
December 04, 2014
This week's article at Aleteia comments on the Pope's recent visit to Turkey and quotes...
December 04, 2014
Last year there was some wisecracking atheist Christmas billboard which also featured Santa. This year's...
December 03, 2014
What is it that makes us so restless and so unhappy? Some say it is...
December 03, 2014
Yesterday I commented that when the statues of the saints were removed from the churches...
December 02, 2014
This before and after photograph of the St Turibius chapel of the Pontifical Josephinum seminary...
December 02, 2014
In my earlier posts here and here I discussed the practical aspects of having married...
December 02, 2014
In the Evangelical Fundamentalist world in which I was raised our heroes were the missionaries....

November 2014

November 27, 2014
I do sometimes miss the Church of England and the Book of Common Prayer. For...
November 27, 2014
One of the simplest bits of evidence for the existence of God is the human...
November 26, 2014
The violence erupting in Ferguson, Missouri is not really about racial tension or socio economic...
November 26, 2014
My problem in researching the married priesthood is that whenever I find a good argument...
November 25, 2014
What are the pros and cons of being a married priest? I'll be writing on...
November 24, 2014
  An article in the Daily Telegraph ponders why the number of people attending parish...
November 24, 2014
Last week I was asked by an editor at the New York Times to contribute...
November 22, 2014
I was asked to comment on the marriage-family crisis in our society. This interview was...
November 22, 2014
Today is the fifty first anniversary of the death of C.S.Lewis. He died, of course, on...
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