
Catholic Soundbite 08 - Lent & Easter
To continue from the post on the Liturgical Calendar , which covered Advent-Christmas, I would like to move on to Lent-Easter. ...
Mar 21, 202420 min read


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...
Feb 7, 202411 min read


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...
Jan 14, 202410 min read


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...
Dec 14, 202317 min read


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...
Nov 15, 202311 min read


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...
Oct 22, 20239 min read


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...
Sep 22, 202210 min read


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...
Aug 31, 202213 min read


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...
May 9, 202211 min read


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, 20228 min read


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, 20222 min read


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 14, 20227 min read


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. ...
Jan 7, 20228 min read