As St Thomas Aquinas wrote, "Tantum ergo (ch - ch)"

“Alleluia, (ch - ch) alleuia! (ch - ch)”

Paul Inwood

It must be real: the man owns up to having written it.

Is it true? Can it be? What's going on here? S'welp me!

++Vincent Nichols is getting a red hat?

This is where I (would like to) quit.

J Cruddas M.P. and Diocese of Brentwood - as promised

Further to my post of  27.07.2012 here, my email to the Diocese of Brentwood, regarding Jon Cruddas MP, read as follows:

Message:
Could someone please explain to this confused expatriate Catholic why J Cruddas, M.P. has been chosen to speak at a Catholic conference, when his parliamentary voting record and public remarks differ so widely from Catholic teaching?
Thank you and God bless.

was replied to today, thus:

Dear Mr Wright
Thank you for your email, the contents of which have been noted.
CJSR

I am deeply gratified, and all my worries are laid to rest.

Judas Priest and the betrayal of Christ

The Daily Telegraph has published here the results of a poll carried out in the UK to determine the public understanding of Easter.

The results are nothing less than shameful.

Blood-pressure dangerously low? Try this!

You're bored, at a loose end. You've cut the canary's toenails, pruned the aspidistra, changed the garage calendar, bleached the poodle, and read to your goldfish. Life seems empty, without significance, futile.

Despair not, but visit dotCommonweal, which contains some of the most interesting (in a clinical sense) would-be Catholic thinking I have come across.

Their latest piece here rebukes (Archbishop?) Dolan, referred to only as 'Dolan", for his arrogance in thinking that Bishops, not lay intellectuals, have authority in matters of faith and Morals, and especially in matters of same-sex 'marriage' and abortion.

If that doesn't raise your blood-pressure and pulse-rate, you should see your doctor. 

H/T thelarryd (Acts of the Apostasy)

Objective moral evil without subjective moral guilt. Thank you for explaining that so clearly.

Thank goodness we have a plain speaker in Archbishop Vincent Nichols, who tells it as it is.

As reported in the Guardian of 22nd February 2012, the Archbishop said,

Phrases like "abstract moral evil", he said, are not aimed at any individual. "One talks about objective moral evil, you might say today, that's racism. No matter what's intended or understood, that, objectively, is wrong. In a similar way, you can say, in every sphere of life there is objective moral evil. But that does not imply subjective moral guilt. That does not imply guilt on an individual."

So now you know.