Issue 2018 June 02
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Transgender playing in women’s football league gains attention
The AFL decision to let a trans male-to-female play in the Victorian Football League Women’s (VFLW) competition has created considerable controversy. Hannah Mouncey is a 100-kilogram male-to-female Fellow players in the women’s league fear to speak out for fear of being labelled “bigots” Studies find differences between the sexes present at all levels, from bone to muscle to heart…
POETRY
The Certainty Principle (Contra the ill-will that has produced modern philosophies) When virtue rules, then I agreeWith sure epistemology,Then I am sound; I look and seeI’m certain, ontologically:All is so good, I shout with glee“Ah, natural theology!”But, if I’m vicious, then I grow …A sceptic, groundless, primed for woe. Against all Intrusive Ascetics in the Teaching Church After two thousand years,…
LETTERS
Mary Magdalene gathers more responses I write in response to the letter, “The historical Mary”, by Anne Lastman (News Weekly, April 7, 2018). I comment on the letter, not on the film, which I have not seen. I respectfully submit a reply. It is perfectly clear from the Gospels of both John and Luke, that, with permission from Pilate, Joseph of Arimathea…
HUMOUR
FANFARE FOR A FERRET by Internal Bleeding Widget CD A443-2 Price: $1.08 (digital download $12,000) Reviewed by Sebastian Gunlighter This CD is sheer delight. It is unequivocally beautiful. Internal Bleeding (Horace Bowel, Sheena Spleen and Derek Gallbladder) have taken some of the world’s most moving music, recorded by the greatest virtuosi of the past 50 years and shamelessly released it…
BOOK REVIEW Mid-century gem of Catholic fiction
THE MASS OF BROTHER MICHEL by Michael Kent (foreword by Peter Kwasniewski) Angelico Press, Kettering, Ohio (originally published in 1942) Paperback: 286 pages Price: AUD$33.75 Reviewed by Michael E. Daniel In the first half of the 20th century the Catholic novel reached its zenith. While the works of writers such as Evelyn Waugh have never gone out of print, in…
BOOK REVIEW A man for all seasons and hemispheres
SIMON LEYS: Navigator between Worlds by Philippe Paquet (translated by Julie Rose) Black Inc, Carlton Hardcover: 664 pages Price: AUD$59.99 Reviewed by Brian Coman Simon Leys was the penname adopted by the Belgian-born scholar and sinologist, Pierre Ryckmans, who moved to Australia in 1970 and subsequently became an Australian national. He died in Sydney in 2014. The title of the…
