The best outcome to be expected from a major meetings of church leaders, according to an old and cynical friend of mine, is that no lasting damage is done to the church catholic. I guess that meetings of the National Council of the Anglican Church in America falls into the above category—thus the council’s gathering . . . → Read More: Meet South Africa’s Bishop Gill
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 An example of the sort of panic terrorism is intended to engender can be seen in the hysterical debate and rushed legislation that has followed on the heels of the hideous school massacre at Newtown, Connecticut. Regardless of one’s opinions on gun control—pro and contra—it should be clear that none of the proposed or enacted . . . → Read More: Lack of manners = murder It seems reasonable to suspect the horrific bombing of the Boston Marathon was the work of Islamic fundamentalists or their sympathizers. At the time of writing, however, no suspected culprits had been publicly identified. Not surprisingly, immediately after the explosion federal and local law enforcement agencies went on high alert. In Baltimore and . . . → Read More: Don’t let fears hand terrorists a victory Canon Michael Kerouac’s quiet, kindly manner and thoughtful sermons have won him a whole parish full of friends since he arrived here five months ago to help take care of the parish while I was recovering from surgery. To say I am grateful to Fr. Mike and his wife Carolyn greatly understates the case. Indeed, . . . → Read More: Canon Mike Kerouac joins parish as vicar Two thousand years of experience teaches us that churchgoers have never reacted well to change of any sort. And nowhere has this been more apparent than within the Anglican Communion. In the 16th century, the replacement of liturgical Latin with English was by no means greeted with universal rejoicing. Nor was there unbridled joy when, . . . → Read More: Change clearly isn’t as good as a rest The trouble with being a two-finger typist is that one tends to make rather more typing errors than are tolerated at secretarial school. These typographical mistakes of mine drive some people crazy. I know because they’ve told me so. But try as I might, I seem quite incapable of preventing them. It is, however, comforting . . . → Read More: Forget Dom Gregory Dix, typos shaped our liturgy March is the month in which we celebrate the feast of two of the greatest Celtic saints—St David of Wales on March 1st and St Patrick of Ireland on March 17th. According to the ancient chroniclers, the great Celtic Church was established in Britain in AD 37 or 38—some five years or so before . . . → Read More: Two saints of the Church that converted the Brits Thanks to the cold weather, the rectory has again been inundated with a plague of mice of dimensions unmatched since Moses was slugging it out with Pharaoh. The miserable little critters get into everything. Flour, rice, cookies, chips, bread, potatoes—you name it, they’ll eat it. As the weeks have passed, they have become bolder and . . . → Read More: Sacked and pillaged by the dreaded Ninja mice THE philosopher George Santayana famously observed: “Those who will not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” They are words so wise they should be tattooed on the forehead of every aspiring politician. And it would certainly do no harm to tattoo them on the foreheads of every journalist, opinion maker, and movie . . . → Read More: The folks who slyly and subtly distort history Maybe I’m wrong, but it seems clear that America’s leading political and intellectual elite is growing increasingly naïve. How else can one explain their predilection for adopting unlikely—even bizarre—solutions to problems their grandparents solved easily and without fuss. Take teenage pregnancy, for example. Mayor Bloomberg of New York is tackling this serious problem by stepping . . . → Read More: Why fings ain’t wot they yoosed ter be |
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