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Changing The World: One Diaper At A Time. 30 May 2013 | 05:31 am
The most important person on earth is a mother. She cannot claim the honor of having built Notre Dame Cathedral. She need not. She has built something more magnificent than any cathedral -- a dwelling...
Dear Barbara 27 May 2013 | 05:03 am
Barbara and Jonny Happy Birthday Barbara. Can I still say that? You would be 65 years old today if you'd lived. The night you died, quite by coincidence, I had taken your old address out of my Amaz...
Looking after orphans and widows in their distress 3 May 2013 | 05:45 am
"Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress" James1:27 In addition to their regular vigil at Whitfield Street, The Good Cou...
A question about believers baptism 29 Apr 2013 | 05:34 am
( Gratuitous pics of Marie-Aibhlinn's baptism!) My friend Charlotte, an evangelical Christian, is currently in RCIA and considering becoming Catholic. She has a question about infant baptism which sh...
Blogger Comments: Apologies due! 6 Apr 2013 | 05:14 am
I've just published a bunch of comments that had slipped under the radar. I can only assume that they fell into spam and I happened across them just now when I was tinkering with my Blogger settings....
"Edith's catsitting insucions" 3 Apr 2013 | 05:30 am
We had planned to spend Easter weekend at Ampleforth where the community of St Aeldred were running a family retreat. I spent most of Thursday packing and preparing and then, when Pat got home, we rea...
A letter to my MP regarding same sex marriage 10 Jan 2013 | 07:15 am
Following the request of Archbishop Vincent Nichols that we should make our objections to these proposals known to our MP, I have sent the email below to Angie Bray MP for Acton/Ealing. I was spurred ...
An update to my last post on Maternal death. 20 Nov 2012 | 06:07 am
UPDATE: Since posting this on the death of Savita Halapannavar, a few more things came to my attention which add more context to this story. Initially I added them at the bottom of my original post, b...
Maternal Death: When fools rush in. 18 Nov 2012 | 08:17 am
The desperately sad death of Savita Halapannaver along with her unborn daughter at only 17 weeks gestation is a grim blow to her poor husband and a salutory reminder to the rest of us that life, even ...
Fr Alan James Fudge. First anniversary. 7 Aug 2012 | 06:10 am
Yesterday was the first anniversary of the death of Fr Alan Fudge, the much beloved pastor of St Charles Borromeo church in Ogle Street, London. He made his final Passover at 3 o'clock in the morning...
