Pope kvetchers: kvetching about papal visit costs, but forgetting to backbite about other causes of expenditure?

According to Lord Patten , the momentous occasion of the papal visit may cost up to £12 million. This is causing some organisations to have ...

He took two motorists to court, blaming them for his wife's abortion

Recently in Ireland, a High Court judgment was passed that denied compensation to a married couple. The middle-aged married couple had tak...

It's still outrageous bullying, even if the victim has mental illness

For my once-in-a-lifetime good deed, I made a map, packed an energy bar and set out to find a London hospital. My intention was to visit an ...

CS Lewis on Contraception. Part Two

When the user becomes the used… A friend of CS Lewis, Sheldon Vanauken in his autobiography A Severe Mercy included many letters written ...

Patience is a virtue, but essential for priests...

He was dressed in grungy grey clothing and he looked as if an inch of dirt clung to him. Grey curly hair straggled around his face, but I ...

Prayer Meme

Kate ( At Home in My Father’s House ) tagged me for Mulier Fortis' prayer meme (thank you Kate), and here I detail which are my three f...

CS Lewis on Contraception. Part One

Did CS Lewis ever condemn contraception outright? A detailed review of his writing affords knowledge that CS Lewis arrived more firmly on th...

Never again could ‘they’ say it was ‘a sin’ to go to the Tridentine Mass

Prior to 7/7/2007, how these invectives used to fill the air; ‘you have no right to go to a Latin Mass. That was banned!’ ‘It’s an act of ...

'Living in sin'

Marriage is becoming the endangered institution according to latest research ; marriage will be down by a half in the next generation. Pe...

'How Cameron can show more love to his party...'

I was caught by the cheeky headline ‘How Cameron can show more ♥ to his party’ to Tim Montgomerie’s article; it argues that Cameron’s w...

Ah Tony, Ed and Mandy, at last we agree on something...

Mandelson’s memoirs have a poison-claw cattiness, claiming that Blair called Brown ‘mad, bad, and dangerous', and described Browns as...

‘Guidelines’ aborted in the north! Cheers!

The abortion ‘guidelines’ have been officially dropped by the health department in the north of Ireland. Together the ‘guidelines’ form a do...