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We are encouraged to rely more and more on government officials to do for us what we could equally well do for ourselves—and, maybe more importantly, not to do what might help us solve our own problems.
Sep 08 2024
10 mins
If we imagine a metric called the Pinocchio Scale, which measures the number of lies told by a politician as a percentage of his or her overall public statements, our current prime minister (for want of a better description), Airbus Albo, has moved well into uncharted territory.
Sep 06 2024
5 mins
The Old Pope and the Old Mass
Pope Francis, eighty-four, in his Letter motu proprio Traditionis custodes (July 16, 2021) and in his accompanying letter to the bishops, seems to have decided that the old Mass (also known as the “Tridentine Mass” or the “usus antiquior” or the “Extraordinary Form”) must die. This form of the liturgy—described by its adherents as the “Mass of the ages”—seems to have had its future in the Church cut off; no more old-Mass personal parishes or groups can be established; the old Mass is no longer to be celebrated in parish churches (where it might be readily accessible); and no priest ordained after July 16, 2021, is to celebrate the old Mass without permission, not just from his bishop but from the Vatican itself. It’s out with the old and in with the new!
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This can’t be the full story, since it was only fourteen years ago that Pope Benedict issued the document Summorum Pontificum, in which he…
Madam: Archbishop Fisher (July-August 2024) does not resist the attacks on his church by the political, social or scientific atheists and those who insist on not being told what to do.
Aug 29 2024
6 mins
To claim Aborigines have the world's oldest continuous culture is to misunderstand the meaning of culture, which continuously changes over time and location. For a culture not to change over time would be a reproach and certainly not a cause for celebration, for it would indicate that there had been no capacity to adapt. Clearly this has not been the case
Aug 20 2024
23 mins
A friend and longtime supporter of Quadrant, Clive James sent us a poem in 2010, which we published in our December issue. Like the Taronga Park Aquarium he recalls in its 'mocked-up sandstone cave' it's not to be forgotten
Aug 16 2024
2 mins
