In 2018, my friend, Fr Paul Robinson SSPX, published with Gracewing Press, his useful book The Realist Guide to Religion and Science. I commend it to anyone interested in these […]
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Category: EFM Latin Mass
The Extraordinary Form of the Mass and related matters
The E.F.M. Is Celebrated in Arcadia
The Extraordinary Form of the Mass, also known as the Tridentine Mass, or “the old Latin Mass” is celebrated at each Sunday, at 4.30pm, at St Benedict’s, Arcadia, 6 Fagan’s […]
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On the Canonisation of John Henry Newman
At every Maronite Mass I have celebrated, I add the names of St John and (Blessed) John Henry Newman, after that of St Maroun in the remembrance of the saints. […]
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Humanity and its Cultures
God is divine, we are human, animals are sentient, plants are organic, and minerals are matter. This is the hierarchy or sacred order of existence, and so the peak of the […]
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Which Religious Orders Are Growing?
A friend has drawn my attention to this remarkable article: “The Data on the Death of Religious Orders”, by two academics, Jack P. Oostveen and David L. Sonnier, at https://onepeterfive.com/data-death-religious-orders/ That […]
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At the Book Launch
This is my speech at the book launch for An Introduction to the Maronite Faith, Parliament House, NSW, 13 February 2018. It took place in the decorous Jubilee Room (pictured). The […]
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Jordan Peterson and the so-called Right not to Be Offended
There was food for thought in Jordan Peterson’s recent interview by an English television journalist who was woefully out of her depth. She spent the entire interview misrepresenting him in […]
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Three News Items on Nature
Here are three news items: first, Noam Chomsky being interviewed on the topic: “What We Really Want” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CFwSQiTu3I The interviewer begins saying, in a very self-satisfied way, that he and […]
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“Put not your trust in princes …”
The Psalmist had it right in Psalm 146: place your most profound trust in God, not in princes or politicians, or indeed any human being. It does not mean that […]
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More on the Sugar Plague …
The Sydney Morning Herald’s weekend edition of 17-18 September 2016, had an article titled: “Dramatic changes needed as childhood obesity normalised” (pp. 8-9). Sadly, one in five children in NSW […]
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