- Mar 21
- 20 min
Catholic Soundbite 08 - Lent & Advent
To continue from the post on the Liturgical Calendar, which covered Advent-Christmas, I would like to move on to Lent-Easter. ...
- Feb 7
- 11 min
Catholic Soundbite 07- Advent & Christmas
The liturgical calendar, in which the Church festivals are set out, has come to us after centuries of evolution. You can be sure in...
- Jan 14
- 10 min
Catholic Soundbites 06 - the Church Building
The church building is something that we tend to take for granted. Many of the objects in the church has a story behind it. In more...
- Dec 14, 2023
- 17 min
Catholic Soundbites 05 - Cardinals and Papal Elections
An earlier post on the Pope begs another another post on what happens when a Pope dies and a new one elected. I have been involved with...
- Nov 15, 2023
- 11 min
Catholic Soundbites 04 - the Pope
With this current Pope Francis, it may be time to share some soundbites about the Papacy. Again, I do not expect anyone to memorise all...
- Oct 22, 2023
- 9 min
Catholic Soundbites 03 - Bishops
There have been many aspects of the Catholic Church, that has always fascinated me ever since I was a boy. The decades of reading and...
- Sep 22, 2022
- 10 min
Catholic Soundbites 02 - Priests
There have been many aspects of the Catholic Church, that has always fascinated me ever since I was a boy. The decades of reading and...
- Aug 31, 2022
- 13 min
Catholic soundbites 01 - Liturgy
There have been many aspects of the Catholic Church, that has always fascinated me ever since I was a boy. The decades of reading and...
- May 9, 2022
- 11 min
Where do priests come from?
It is interesting that while priests were mentioned in the Old Testament, they were largely absent from the New Testament, although the...
- Jan 14, 2022
- 8 min
What God is not
In the Western world, we are used to visualising God as someone old with white flowing beard, moustached and hair, looking wise or stern....
- Jan 14, 2022
- 2 min
To love is opposite of being in love
Conditioned by Hollywood, we tend to equate loving to being in love. I would contrarily argue that they are different. Nay, more than...
- Jan 14, 2022
- 7 min
What is truth?
We keeping hearing that we are in the post-truth society. It seems a certainty but 'truth' is never defined. I would like to explore...
- Jan 7, 2022
- 8 min
Some questions about consciousness and thus, about life
Moral theology is often separate from science but ignoring science in this modern age would leave it looking reactionary and irrelevant. ...