Tag: Catholicism
Mark Shea: What is a heresy?
The first of three-part series on heresy by Mark Shea
Modernity has been conditioned to think of orthodoxy as a stiff and stodgy thing, closed...
Monica Doumit: I applaud US bishops on Biden statement
Controversial welcome was entirely appropriate
Well, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) was in a bit of a flurry last week, wasn’t it?
For those...
Philippa Martyr: Downton Abbey Catholicism
A Church for the modern person
Having read the Australian Catholic Mass Attendance Report 2016, I think we can safely say that the experiment has...
Michael Daniel: Learning to speak Catholic with an accent
there is still the tendency for me to default into using phrases of common prayers from The Book of Common Prayer (1662), such as “the quick and the dead” instead of “the living and the dead”
We need the Mass even more
A week ago, my friend and colleague Peter Holmes published an article ‘Missing Mass? Don’t complain…’ Its focus is not so much on those...
Q&A with Fr John Flader: Excommunication possible
“Dear Father, I am disturbed by the fact that some Catholic politicians have voted for the legalisation of abortion in this country. For me,...
Bishop Barron and Dr Peterson’s meeting of minds
US bishop and popular author Bishop Robert Barron has spoken of a “huge pastoral failure” by the Church during a highly anticipated discussion with...
Jordan Peterson says Catholicism is most sane
“I think that Catholicism ... that’s as sane as people can get” world-famous psychologist Dr Jordan Peterson has said in an interview widely circulated...
James Parker: You couldn’t make it up if you tried
Israel Folau, one of Australia’s greatest rugby players, had his contract terminated weeks before the 2019 Rugby World Cup.
Israel’s sin? Reminding people in a...
Les Murray poem led me to the Catholic Church
Meet the man who was inspired by the poetry of Les Murray to enter the Catholic Church.
Benjamin Drake, a 32-year-old motion designer for a...