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The Second First Thing

Here is my homily for the second week of Advent for Catholic Online. It is the second in a series on the “Four First Things” rather than the “Four Last Things”

The Decline of the Church in Britain

Damian Thompson (who is probably one of the world’s greatest journalists) write here about the decline of Christianity in Britain. The shrinking of those who identify as Christians is combined with a dramatic surge in the Muslim population. You can’t disagree with the statistics: Since the last census in 2001, the number of Britons identifying [...]

Humphrey’s Book is Published!

It’s awfully good this Kindle whatsit! Daphne got me to scribble down the little adventure we had in coming to Great Snoring, and what ho! One of the fellows in the youth club fiddled about for a bit on his computer and the whole thing is suddenly up and running! Very whizz bang this digital [...]

The Vicar of Great Snoring

Do you know, it’s really rather fun! I was telling some folks the story of how Daphne and I ended up coming here to Great Snoring in the first place, and they were really rather amused by it all. Said I ought to scribble it down. It’s been rather dozy here in the village so [...]

Ed Blanch Texts

Guest blogger Ed Blanch comments regularly on various religious websites and he blogs at There’s No Sky Fairy where he regularly receives 273 visits a month. Ed is taking a break from his studies at North Jersey College of Technology. Domiciled in his mom’s basement, Ed is busy developing an exciting new video game concept. He doesn’t have [...]

Woman and Serpent Take 2

  Here is a chapter from my book Mary-A Catholic Evangelical Debate–with a former Bob Jones University classmate– David Gustafson

Inaccurate Deception?

Here is the article from earlier this year which tells the story of how I came to accept the Immaculate Conception…It’s a personal testimony of an important part of my journey to the fullness of the faith in the Catholic Church. I hope you enjoy reading it, and wish you a blessed feast day!

Todd Unctuous is Too Right!

Whenever I write the Todd Unctuous column I try to make it my friendly Main stream media reporter as outrageously stupid and over the top as I possible can. Nevertheless, invariably a reader makes an outraged comment, and inevitably, Todd’s weird views seem to come up in the real news. Earlier in the week Todd [...]

Jigsaw Puzzle Spirituality

I remember as a young priest I was visiting an older woman we’ll call Veronica whose life was in chaos. She was grieving over a broken marriage. Her children were a disappointment. She had health problems and money worries. She had emotional and relational difficulties. In addition to this she talked too much. The poor [...]

My Response to Frank Viola

Frank Viola–the author of Beyond Evangelical is a fellow Patheos blogger. He blogs here on the Evangelical channel–is engaged in a “dia-blog” with me. I ask him a question. He replies. I respond. He asks me a question. I reply. He responds. Here is a summary of the conversation so far. You can read the [...]