I can’t fathom Father Bob’s humour
For a cranky old Catholic priest from Melbourne, Father Bob has a sense of humour that’s positively schoolboy. Scroll down for the Easter cartoon.
Father Bob responds to Dawkins
Melbourne’s “real Christian” Father Bob Maguire reckons Richard Dawkins is peddling a furphy when he says religion causes, more than any other factor, wars and other horrors. This culture of war and horror comes in a separate package from religion. It comes from the most primitive parts of the human mind and heart. Religion, at …
The Return of the Latin Mass
That wonderful chap Father Bob Maguire has written a piece on the return of the Latin Mass in Catholic churches. As usual, he’s saying things the Vatican probably won’t like. Excellent. Church music became popularist [sic] in the 1960s [after Vatican II] because it had been exclusivist for centuries. The “Masses” so often “oo’ed and …
It’s not a “space”, it’s a “market”
Of all the current corporate buzzwords, “space” shits me the most. I’ve been meaning to write about it, but web pioneer Marc Andreessen got there first: There is no such thing as a “space”. There is such a thing as a market — that’s a group of people who will directly or indirectly pay money …
Explain your allegiances!
“I’m in hiding! I don’t want to be asked by Australian law enforcement agents whether I’m an Australian first and a Catholic second or vice versa,” writes Father Bob Maguire. Bob says that asking whether Australian Muslims put global Islam before local loyalty reminds him of the way Catholics were persecuted in the 1920. “That …
al-Zarqawi Who?
Small-c christian Father Bob Maguire puts the assassination of al-Zarqawi in context.