Keeping it positive
No sooner did I publish that last post, that I regretted it. My spiritual director suggested a few months ago that I would do better to keep my blog positive. He acknowledged that controversy attracts...
View ArticleEvangelising the digital continent
One of the books I’m reading at the moment is The Church and the New Media. It’s an excellent resource for anyone who wants to “evangelise the digital continent,” as Pope Benedict puts it. One of the...
View ArticleFeast of St Gerard Majella CSsR
I’m still alive. I’m still a country priest. And I really have to post the answers to that trivia quiz. (Way to frustrate and lose readers!) I haven’t been blogging because I have been devoting the...
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To blog or not to blog
This is surprising, to say the least: A poll of U.S. Catholics indicates that while only 5 per cent of respondents said they read or follow blogs on the Catholic Church, faith, or spirituality, 33 per...
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Back online
Huzzah! St Mary’s has broadband again — and telephone, and EFTPOS. Dunkeld and Koroit are still waiting, and some pockets of Warrnambool and Hamilton aren’t online yet. But some time this morning, the...
View ArticleLife, Knowledge and Love
Not long now until The Hobbit premieres on Australian screens. I’ve already got my ticket. Have you? I did concede, in a recent conversation with another Tolkien fan, that The Hobbit is light weight...
View ArticleBrute-force attacks
WordPress users: be calm and vigilant. WordPress blogs and websites all over the world have sustained “brute-force attacks” this week. Over 90,000 computers have been ‘conscripted’ into a sinister...
View ArticleTo think with the Church
Clare, a newcomer to this blog, has posted many comments in the last 24 hours relating especially to my posts on homosexuality. I have been asked to state whether or not I agree with certain sections...
View ArticleComments restricted
Comments have become problematic of late. Trolls have posted offensive comments, and in some cases stolen other users’ identities. Please accept my apologies Cathy. I have consequently tightened access...
View ArticleA Priest Down Under goes under (the blog I mean, not the priest!)
Father Nicholas Pearce, also known as ‘A Priest Down Under’ wound down his blog last month. It was a long time coming of course. Posts were few and far between in the last year, but Fr Pearce blogged...
View ArticleA message from Weird Al
Three weeks ago, I attended the ACCC Conference in Melbourne and committed a fatal error. I spent a week without the Internet, which meant, of course, that I didn’t check my e-mail. When I returned to...
View ArticleNew Evangelists Monthly
The blogosphere is hit and miss. There are great posts out there – gold among the dross. If you check your favourite blogs regularly, it’s easy enough to find the good stuff. But if you slacken off,...
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Web hackers and TV Mass
This blog was beseiged by hackers this week,. I didn’t have time to properly defend it, so I locked it down instead, which has prevented me from easily updating. It could be worse. A priest friend of...
View ArticleThe narcissist blogger
A friend recently e-mailed me the following quote and suggested — with due respect and affection I’m sure — that it also describes bloggers: “.. they love to receive praise, and sometimes they even...
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When blog posts go wrong
At last week’s Catholic New Media Conference, I related a PR disaster I inflicted on myself early in my blogging career. In the week after I was ordained, I overheard teenage girls remark to their...
View ArticleTo the Core
I contributed a guest post to Campion College’s To The Core blog this week, which I had never heard of prior to the invitation. Moreover, I’ve only browsed the blog since I submitted my post, and it...
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Christmas reading
Sometimes, blog posts carry great literary worth, and could even be described as works of art. This is one such post: This is probably the hardest thing I’ve ever had to write in my entire life. The...
View ArticleThe shifting sands of the Catholic blogosphere
Diary of a Wimpy Catholic was once my daily go-to. I commonly referred to Max Lindenman as “everybody’s favourite blogger, or mine anyway.” But I tuned out in recent times, and hadn’t given his blog...
View ArticleCatholic digital media down under
Ten days ago nominations were called for the inaugural Southern Cross Catholic Digital Media Awards. I wasn’t aware of this until nominations were closed, and nominees were announced today. I’m a bit...
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Bridging the chasm
Today — Sunday 14 June — is G.K. Chesterton’s anniversary of death. It is an excellent occasion to start blogging again, with a new found dedication to the controversial questions of our time....
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