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My Usuals in the Blogosphere
Here are some of the blogs I keep my eye on to keep informed. It is not an exhaustive list and there are many other fine blogs around. There is no “order” in this list. The Anglican Catholic –...
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The Blogging Ministry
I begin with a hat tip to Fr Smuts for bringing the article to my attention. He makes no commentary himself, but gives the link to Seven Reasons Every Pastor Should Have a Blog. It obviously depends on...
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Two Neglected Blogs
I did a little survey of interesting blogs a few days ago. Here’s a couple of the forgotten ones, which are generally very good. The first has some very interesting reflections about why people go to...
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Commenting on Blogs
This is one subject about which many of us bloggers have difficulties. I noticed that a major traditionalist RC blog has removed the possibility of comments because moderating them all is too...
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Doldrums
I get the impression the Doldrums have arrived at this beginning of October. I don’t know whether it’s just me or more generally. I thought of the subject the other day when I took the boat out and the...
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Bogus Technical Support Scam
I have just had a “cold call” from a man with a heavy Indian accent telling me that my computer was full of “errors” and that I had to follow a particular procedure. I smelled a rat immediately and...
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Ransomware
A relatively new alarm has been sounded – ransomware. You open an e-mail purporting to be from a legitimate company, and a virus self-runs. It encrypts your files and offers you the possibility of...
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Signs of New Life
I am not a professional journalist, but as one who enjoys writing in my native language, I recognise talent when I read it. I refer to the young author of Liturgia Causa who lives in the south-east of...
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Two Years Old
Set up on 17th January 2012, this blog is two years old. Its first post is Invitation, expressing my anxiety to be away from the old Ordinariate / TAC polemics that plagued the English Catholic blog I...
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Writing Comments
I thought I would ask readers who post comments to make their writing transparent and easy to read. Nearly everyone who writes here expresses himself or herself in good grammatical English. I have...
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Flying Sparks!
Our friend Patricius has just written Censorship… as a result of having crossed the line on the New Liturgical Movement blog. It was only to be anticipated. It is a long time ago that I ceased to be...
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I don’t use LinkedIn
I get messages very frequently either from LinkedIn or some spammer or scammer pretending that someone I know, or who wants to get to know me, wants to “connect with me” on this particular networking...
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The Pipe of Peace
I have had some careful defusing to do over the past day, regarding the article Europeans are frightened in The Anti-Gnostic blog. The person running this blog is spiritually of Episcopalian origins....
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Rocks and hard places
A dear friend wrote to me this morning observing that my blog had been quiet of late. I have to admit that I was quite stirred by the growing uncertainties of our world. We suffer from a saturation of...
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Patricius on Trolls
This began as a comment to Patricius’ recent posting on Trolls… When I attempted to post it, I found that the site limited the number of characters allowed. It is understandable, so rather than edit...
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More than 500,000 views
My statistics inform me that this blog has had 504,823 views (as of right now) since I set it up in January 2012. That is just over three years ago. I am also informed that this is my 972nd posting, …...
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Quietness
One or two have written to me concerned about my quietness on the blog. I am away from home in England for a few days. We had our diocesan Synod in Lancashire last Saturday and I am spending a couple...
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Updated Statistics
This blog, set up in January 2012, is nearly four years old. My statistics page informs me that it has had 585,742 views and 7,075 comments. It contains a total of 1,072 postings excluding this one. My...
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Incitation to Hatred
I have had to refuse another comment, and I had to make another examination of conscience. Do I have the right to refuse comments because I do not agree with the expressed opinions? I have said it...
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A new (but not so new) way forward
We bloggers (floggers?) tend to come to a watershed sooner or later, especially when we become aware of bad feelings and occasional hostility. I have certainly discussed “true churches” exhaustively...
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