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Farewell to Catholic Liverpool …

By roger | Published: 28 March 2013

    Let me start with another little personal notice … That notice is to say this website will be interrupted again perhaps three or four weeks while Kim, myself and our daughter relocate from Liverpool to Ireland. For myself, it will be a profound joy to be living, once again, not only in my [...]

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Adoration of the Precious Blood

By kim | Published: 18 September 2012

    When I gaze upon this image, I see so much. Hidden behind the image, I see our Lord Jesus Christ upon the Cross, arms stretched wide, presenting us His Heart, loving. Loving, forgiving, in the midst of His agony. His heart, like the sun, beaming, warming, as Its rays touch each and every [...]

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The Church as Living Organism, the Church as Mystery …

By roger | Published: 8 September 2012

    Recently I stammered here a little about the nature of the Church as a Living Organism. And I tried to draw a distinction between the Protestant emphasis on sermons and the Miracle of the Seven Sacraments: The Protestant sermon imparts beliefs. It teaches. Often very good and beautiful things. But the Organism does something else. [...]

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Catholic Obedience and New Age Thinking

By kim | Published: 27 August 2012

Roger has recently posted a long piece, on the traditional nature of the Catholicity of Valentin Tomberg. This piece was written largely in response to questions and comments by a reader of the site. Having read the article, I am struck by the theme of obedience, of giving oneself over to the authority of a [...]

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Catholicism: Living Mystery or Human Label?

By roger | Published: 28 June 2012

  In dialoguing with non-Catholics in secular society, the greatest problem will frequently be complete lack of understanding. This can easily arise because – often without realising it – non-Catholics and Catholics have completely different understandings of what the Church is. For within the secular world, the idea has become prevalent that Catholicism amounts to [...]

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Saint Catherine Labouré and Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal

By roger | Published: 23 June 2012

account of the Apparition of Our Lady in the Rue du Bac Paris

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The (Secret) World I See

By roger | Published: 23 May 2012

Catholic Ireland, Catholic culture, the Sacraments and the black out of Catholicism in England and America.

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What Findhorn Could Never Give Me

By roger | Published: 16 April 2012

Once long ago, I lived at the New Age community of Findhorn in northern Scotland. What to say of this Findhorn community? Well, according to a Vatican document on the New Age, Jesus Christ the Bearer of the Water of Life: ‘The two centres which were the initial power-houses of the New Age, and to a [...]

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Book Review: All Things Made New – Stratford Caldecott

By roger | Published: 12 April 2012

Stratford Caldecott’s All Things Made New serves to wonderfully restore symbolism and numerological correspondences to the Catholic imagination.

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Book Review: Padre Pio: The True Story

By roger | Published: 12 April 2012

The astonishing story of Padre Pio moved me to tears.

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From 2005: Talking to the New Age (A Still Hesitant Apologetics) – Part V

By roger | Published: 21 August 2011

Foreword 2011: We continue with my serialisation of a letter originally written in 2005 mainly (though not completely and entirely) for New Age friends – who could not comprehend how I could leave my Findhorn-New Age past behind in favour of the Catholic Church. The series is subtitled “A Still Hesitant Apologetics”, because in 2005 [...]

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Book Review: The Curé d’Ars by Françoise Trochu (With Extracts from the Book)

By roger | Published: 1 May 2011

The relics of the Saint in the Basilica in Ars. Photo courtesy of Laifen. O St John-Marie-Baptiste Vianney! Who, what were you?! If I think back to my New Age days, I can still imagine answering such a question with words like: “Vast, cosmic, superhuman …” For words like “holy” or “saint” were not very [...]

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In the Day to Day Struggle …

By roger | Published: 8 April 2011

Frequent reception of the Sacraments as the doorway to His Sacred Heart.

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Book Review: Lazarus Come Forth by Valentin Tomberg

By roger | Published: 8 March 2011

The first part here is a slightly edited version of a review I wrote for Amazon some years back … This book – I am incapable of thinking of it as anything other than one of the greatest books of the twentieth century. My writing of these words is very, very personal. Though I never [...]

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Book Review: The Pope’s Legion by Charles A. Coulombe

By roger | Published: 16 February 2011

This is a book about the 60’s. Yet it has nothing to do with civil rights, sexual liberation, LSD and other forms of chemical liberation … Nor is there anything to do with student riots, the “right” to abortion on demand, Woodstock and general revolt against the Establishment. Neither Hugh Hefner nor Martin Luther King [...]

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(Living at Findhorn) Nobody Told Me …

By roger | Published: 22 January 2011

Long years lived in the heart of the New Age including the Findhorn Community in Scotland and nobody told me of the Sacraments, of the Church …

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Christmas and the Fate of the Earth

By roger | Published: 24 December 2010

January 2011 Amendment: The following entry was originally written under a slight misapprehension as to something the Holy Father had said. In a British print journal, I had read the Pope say that in terms of the global climate crisis: The Church is the only hope. The quote had been taken from Light of the [...]

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The Pope on Ecological “Catastrophe … The Church is often the Only Hope”

By roger | Published: 11 December 2010

January 2011 Amendment: The following entry was originally written under a slight misapprehension as to the Holy Father’s words. In a British print journal, I had read the Pope say that in terms of the global climate crisis: The Church is the only hope. The quote had been taken from Light of the World – [...]

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Cor Jesu Sacratissimum – Extract from the Opening Chapter

By roger | Published: 13 November 2010

This is a long excerpt from my upcoming self-published book Cor Jesu Sacratissimum – RB.

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Book Review: This is the Faith by Canon Francis Ripley

By roger | Published: 23 October 2010

“They sure don’t make ‘em like this anymore!” Such I imagine might be the exclamation of many a traditional Catholic on discovering this storehouse of treasure. The storehouse of treasure in question here is a catechism of the Faith written by the English Father – later Canon – Francis Ripley in 1951. In its time, [...]

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