No More Not enough options, so I need plans.No answers or good ideas most days, so I need a good read after tea.No prospects, so I need good deeds and merits. No expiations, so to make up for the fear and worry, I need earthly necessities and the radio news. No profits, so I must please God more to avoid bad happenings and…

Cardinal Pell Most readers would be too young to remember the show trials of Cardinal Stepinac in Poland and Cardinal Mindszenty in Hungary. Prayers were said worldwide for them. Both Poland and Hungary then were ruled by communist governments. History is repeating itself in the Australian State of Victoria, which is not communist but close to it. Victoria is well set up for…

THE EVOLUTIONARY COSMOLOGISTS’ SONGBOOK Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, Stephen J. Gould et al. Big Bang plc, CD0001 Price: AUD$∞.25 Reviewed by Sebastian Gunlighter (Number One Reviewer, with a bullet) Well, after all the hoo-haa, here it is, the most-awaited album of the year, if not of the age of the earth (put at somewhere between 39 years and 13 billion…

STRANGERS IN A STRANGE LAND: Living the Catholic Faith in a Post-Christian World by Archbishop Charles J. Chaput Henry Hold and Company, New York Hardcover: 288 pages Price: AUD$39.99 Reviewed by Conor Sweeney Archbishop Charles J. Chaput is a rare breed among his class: a serious bishop. By this I mean he is a bishop who, far more than most,…

SAINTS VS. SCOUNDRELS: Debating Life’s Greatest Questions by Benjamin Wiker EWTN Publishing, Irondale, Alabama Paperback: 288 pages Price: AUD$39.95 Reviewed by Michael E. Daniel Many people have converted to Catholicism because they have recognised that the Catholic Church is able to offer a meaningful and cogent response to the deep questions of life. However, throughout its history, but particularly in…