Blogger Leitourgos writes: [I've been] thinking about a possible topic for those lighter threads which occasionally appear in the blog and which I find very enjoyable. We all have a great debt towards our teachers. I certainly was extremely lucky, no blessed, with my primary school teachers who not only taught me to read, but...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1-49Y4t3wg Pope Francis calls racism a sin but is "racism" a specific sin, as distinct from the law of charity? Comments invited...
For purchasing details, click on image... But what sort of "good books" and "spiritual reading" will help us to save our souls? I've heard young Catholics raving about Lord of the Rings as a great story and a marvellous means of understanding their Faith better. Here's author J.R.R. Tolkien: "The Lord of the Rings is of...
It's almost impossible to find a good clean "Scottish" joke and the popular Scots "comics" just can't seem to get through a sentence without using the "F" word, and other crude language. This was a matter of embarrassment to me when I lived in England and found myself apologising for various foul-mouthed Scots, and...
Recently, in the context of discussing the research findings purporting to show that atheists are more intelligent than believers, I found myself in conversation with a variety of readers on the subject of maturity, on whether it is possible to be a truly mature adult Catholic while lacking any of the qualities generally associated with mature adulthood: check out...
