Tag: Philippa Martyr

So how else can we be different from the world? How can we bring it salt and light, instead of blending into the secular...

My theologian chum Dr Larry Chapp has recently been blogging on Vatican II. What he’s saying rings bells for the Plenary Council. Larry points out...

We owe it to the Novus Ordo to celebrate it the way Vatican II really intended. Dominus vobiscum!

The laity can do pretty much any job in the Church. But only presbyters can make Jesus really present I wanted to follow up on...

So far, the Instrumentum Laboris has shown us what the Church in Australia is like now, and an image of what it could be....

I keep being told that over 220,000 people participated in the Plenary Council process. It’s impressive but let’s break down those figures. The Final Report...

The Church is either human and democratic or like the Blues Brothers – on a mission from God My last piece on women deacons caused...

You’re not likely to hear that in your average sacramental preparation class, and that’s a crying shame.

Can women be ordained as permanent deacons in the Catholic Church? And if they can, should this happen? I will save you all worrying, because...

Spiritual communions, perfect acts of contrition, and Mass on TV are not what the Lord intended for us. He intended real things: breath and bodies; oil and wine in our wounds; flesh and blood for us to eat; water and fire to purify