Dec
30
2013
The last thing infallibility is is infallible. On the face of it papal infallibility might well seem to be yet another of that long list of supposed Catholic superstitions so misunderstood and reviled by Dawkins and his cohorts, and, it...
Dec
28
2013
Robert Southwell was a Jesuit priest who who worked as a missionary priest in England, based mainly in the Greys Inn and Clerkenwell areas of London before he was caught and imprisoned. He was taken first to the house...
Dec
27
2013
Christmas Eve and twelve of the clock
'Now they are all on their knees',
An elder said as we sat in a flock
By the embers in heartfelt ease.
We pictured the meek mild creatures where
They dwelt in their strawey pen,
Nor did it...
Dec
26
2013
Marriage is not a thing but a relationship that is no way external to the persons it relates but at the same time the third force that relates them. So every marriage is a trinity. Children are the physical...
Dec
25
2013
I keep thinking of the monks in the London Charterhouse on Christmas Days in the late 1520's. How amazing that there was a contemplative monastery right next to Smithfield meat market. How noisy the market must have been in...
Dec
12
2013
One of the foundation pillars of modern atheism is Hume’s radical and, as many see it, devastating attack on religion. It is not so much the arguments themselves that have influenced people. Indeed, Hume vigorously attacks religion all through...
Dec
10
2013
Freedom is not the capacity to choose to have a coffee rather than a tea. There can be little doubt that such choices are dictated by determinist physical processes, and only feel free because they are too complex for...
Dec
09
2013
The economy of the world is now like an out of control train rushing towards a precipice so fast it is becoming increasingly difficult to get off. The great global corporations that now control the world have escaped the...
Dec
06
2013
Keith comes in to tell me that there is now every sign that there is going to be an economic recession. Keith feeds on bad news. This year’s pea crop has failed. Council tax is going up again. Next...