'What if the Foreign Office had offended the Prophet Mohammed?'

That's the question I've been burning to ask. The answer? The Foreign Office and their lackeys wouldn’t have dared. And if they ha...

April 28th - Day One of the Novena

I propose Wednesday, April 28th, as the start day for the novena. Starting today leaves us little time to get the word out, and tomorrow Apr...

Join us in storming heaven for our pope!

In the current situation (poison 'leaked memos' by 'civil' servants) we are being exhorted to pray devoutly for our pope, ...

Pope Benedict saved us from Maciel Milieu

During a sermon that meditated on The Good Shepherd, (9AM Mass Brompton Oratory, April 18th) Fr. Bowen bravely developed his sermon to exami...

‘Stranded Couple Take Vows Over Internet’

I must have made God laugh yesterday – my plans were dashed because I wasn’t able to fly home. Instead, I spent hours on the phone cancell...

‘Terrible is this place: it is the house of God, and the gate of heaven...' (Genesis)

Just back from 8AM Tridentine Mass at the Brompton Oratory, or ‘Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary’. A friend and I walked there in the ...

Irish Church: Preventative Actions on Child Abuse. Where are The Times now?

You may not have heard about the new initiatives that are being employed by the Irish Catholic Church to explore the motivations-for...

Priests are the new abuse victims

I found it very taxing to write/blog in the last week. I had to recuperate after researching and writing an article for a secular Irish news...

Drinks all round? Irish Good Friday ban is lifted

The lifting of this ban is a historical bookmark. For all my life in Ireland, pubs did not open on Good Friday and the parts of the shop...

'...forced to support Himself on the single nail that impaled His feet to the cross...'

A Catholic doctor, whom I esteem highly, forwarded the e-mail that I re-produce in full here. I do not know who wrote the e-mail entitled ...