I usually done go for conversion stories. Partially because the 'benefit' others seem to get out of the stories don't seem to work for me. I do respect the experience of others, because I have had a small taste of what they had to go through to get to this side of the Tiber, but I can't hear it without feeling acute pain in empathy with theirs. Sure I rejoice that they are here in the Church, but I can do that without raking over their pain in fine detail.

This account of a lesbian-feminist-journalist turned Catholic caught my attention for the way the Catholic monk in the story shared his faith with the ranting atheist.

At wit’s end, she recounted how someone she knew talked about visiting “the monks” at the famous Saint-Benoît Abbey in Saint-Benoît-du-Lac, Quebec.
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At a recent conference in Perth introducing and discussing the new English translation of the Mass a bishop was quoted as saying

"I used to see myself as a moderate churchman, and now I find myself on the left- but I haven't changed".

His perception is accurate.

No matter how many times I see it, this one always makes me laugh.

I thought it was just my paranoia that it all seemed to be originating with Associated Press, but it seems more obvious every day that they have an agenda here.

What annoys me most about the angry responses are the extreme versions of both ends of the spectrum.

NO this is NOT just a beat up to hurt the Pope.
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I cant help referring to this clever piece on the Australian government's plans to introduce an Internet filter. It draws on the wisdom of Sir Humphrey Appleby of Yes Minister fame, and his theory on the motives underlying political action. He suggests that the basic political syllogism is as follows,

1. We must do something

2. This is something

3. Therefore we must do this.
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This is a placeholder for a post on Lily Allen's latest album.

I was glad to see an article by Melinda Tankard Reist on Lady Gaga's latest music video clip published in The Australian newspaper about a month back. As always her clips are high production, clever use of symbolism combined with a number of young women engaged in very slick choreographed dance routines wearing next to nothing.

I am poking my head out of a self imposed blogging break because this news is too big to ignore.

From the homepage of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles,

Pope Benedict XVI has names Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of San Antonio, Texas, as Coadjutor Archbishop of Los Angeles. ... As Coadjutor, Archbishop Gomez (58) will automatically become head of the three-county Archdiocese of Los Angeles upon Cardinal Roger Mahoney's retirement at age 75 on February, 27, 2011.
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