Daily Archives: September 18, 2014

As a junior doctor I was most taken by a senior colleague’s description to medical students of life-support as “air going in and out, and blood round and round”. Such simplicity of exposition! I have used that expression ever since, to … Continue reading →

Bishop Anthony Fisher of the diocese of Parramatta (western Sydney) has been appointed as the new Archbishop of Sydney, succeeding Cardinal George Pell who has lately moved to the Vatican. Bishop Fisher, a friar of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans), … Continue reading →

“[T]he impeccable prefect of the supreme tribunal of the apostolic signatura, is on the verge of being demoted to the purely honorary role of “patron” of an order of knighthood…”, says Sandro Magister on (Chiesa) [This is a slightly shortened version … Continue reading →