(BOOK REVIEW Atheism with an Islamic cast gives way to the Catholic Church)*
FROM FIRE, BY WATER: My Journey to the Catholic Faith
by Sohrab Ahmari
Ignatius Press, San Francisco
Hardback: 240 pages
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FROM FIRE, BY WATER: My Journey to the Catholic Faith
by Sohrab Ahmari
Ignatius Press, San Francisco
Hardback: 240 pages
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HOW TO KEEP FROM LOSING YOUR MIND: Educating Yourself Classically to Survive Cultural Indoctrination
by Deal W. Hudson
TAN Books, Char…
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A RECKONING When a generation startsto tiptoe awayalmost imperceptibly,one misses the presenceof old friends one didn’t seevery often, and that, too,is sad. A reckoning is due. I should have s…
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JUST A THOUGHT … What if it turned out that traditional Christian morality is the template for “the greatest happiness of the greatest number”? John Stuart Mill’s formula offered…
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BBC MISLEADING ABOUT MELTING ANTARCTIC GLACIER
The Global Warming Policy Forum has criticised the BBC for misleading the public about the melting of the Thwaites Glacier.
In its numerous reports o…
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GOLIATH: Why the West Doesn’t Win Wars, and What We Need to Do about It
by Sean McFate
Michael Joseph, London
Hardcover…
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EIGHT LIVES
by Susan Hurley
Affirm Press, South Melbourne
Paperback: 384 pages
Price: AUD$32.99
Reviewed by Michael E. Daniel
David (Dung) Tran, a brill…
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BREAKING UP CAMP (Prophecy in a supermarket) When nations clash at last, what will I do?I’ve never changed a washer or a fuse;I’ll just get caught – like someone on the news &ndash…
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FALSE SAVIOURS In commenting on the winner of the News Corp Car of the year’ award, chief judge Richard Blackburn said of the Toyota Rav4 Hybrid: “Its’ guilt-free family motoring &n…
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LIBERAL SHOCK: The Conservative Comeback
Edited by William Dawes, foreword by Peter Hitchens
Connor Court, Redland Bay
Paperback: 366 pages
Price: AUD$39.95
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THE BEE AND THE ORANGE TREE
by Melissa Ashley
Affirm Press, South Melbourne
Hardcover: 384 pages
Price: AUD$35
Reviewed by Michael E. Daniel
Paris 1699,…
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Down There in the Valley Down there in the valley,as long as I can remember,while the hawk circles overthe plover have crieda lament for each child. It has always been so, the parents, long shelteri…
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JUSTICE DELAYED In the prosecution of George Cardinal Pell, the long process of appeal is now being subject to further prolonged delays. Even our more elite judicial officers are fallible and on some…
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DEMOCRACY AND TRUTH: A Short History by Sophia Rosenfeld University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia Hardcover: 224 pages Price: AUD$43.90 Reviewed by Michael Quinlan Sophia Rosenfeld is …
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LITERATURE THROUGH THE EYES OF FAITH: An Anthology of EssaysFirst Things, New YorkPaperback: 191 pagesPrice: $US14.95 (AUD$26.83) (Available online at amazon.com.au)
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At Christmas Two women doing dishes in the sink, both downcast, both trying to think, one sighs to herself: she doesn’t look happy, there’s no way she’s going to be tied down,…
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Thoroughbred deaths I read Colin Teese’s claim, “Today, all over Australia, there are races every day in every state”, on a day when there was one meeting in Victoria and one in New…
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PARTICLES OF FAITH: A Catholic Guide to Navigating Science
by Stacy A. Trasancos
Ave Maria Press, Notre Dame, Indiana Paperback: 192 pages Price: AUD$34.95
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THE POLITICS OF THE COMMON GOOD: Dispossession in Australia
by Jane R. Goodall
NewSouth, Sydney Paperback: 304 pages Price: AUD$32.99
Reviewed by Brian Coman
Most…
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A Cooking Poem
(Suitable for Dominicans)
I look, and want to ring right out – “There’s nothing like a Brussels sprout!” I trow Saint Thomas did agree: Hi…
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Mao’s legacy Bill James (News Weekly, November 2, 2019), in his reply to my letter (News Weekly, October 19, 2019) tells us that “life expectancy in China rose from 35-40 years in 1949 to…
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HOW TO BE A DICTATOR: The Cult of personality in the Twentieth Century
by Frank Dikötter
Bloomsbury Publishing, London Paperback: 304 pages Price: AUD$29.99
Revie…
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