Gab brought this homily by Fr Marcus Goulding to my attention at the beginning of the week. I’ve included both the video and written version of the homily below. ————- I look forward to the day I do not need to preach against the policies and decisions of our current state government. That day is…

This primer is a summary of the magnificent work of Eugyppius over the last week or so. In a series of posts, principally, here and here, he fashions an argument that a universal vaccination campaign: may permanently compromise immunity to SARS-2, via Original Antigenic Sin — the phenomenon, long observed in the antibody response to influenza…

Did anyone see the advertisement in the Herald Sun on Sunday, 31 October thanking Brett Sutton CMO Victoria and team for keeping us safe? The text of the advertisement ran as follows: “To Prof Brett Sutton, Prof Ben Cowan and A/Prof Deb Friedman Thank you To you and the team of people you lead, For…

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.-G. K. Chesterton In the OT today, Calli made the following astute comment, We seem to be in a perfect storm of physical and spiritual (or, if you like, moral) degradation, without the will to tackle it in the simplest of ways. That is, starting in the home. Our telescopic philanthropy…

Seventy-nine years ago on the 2nd of November, 1942, the village and aerodrome of Kokoda in the Owen Stanley mountains of Papua, was re-entered by Australian soldiers. What follows is not a campaign narrative – there are plenty of those already in existence – but a small collection of related and lesser-known facts. All have…