Bože! A Grace Catholic Project
Corpse Disposal
The BBC has an interesting – if not slightly ghoulish – article about a new technology for disposing of corpses. Two methods are described. First is called alkyline hydrolysis – which basically turns the soft tissue into sludge, which is then sluiced away into the sewage system; the remaining bone and metal are sorted, and [...]
Kindle As Research Tool
I recently bought a Kindle. Yes by and large it was peer pressure – from one particular peer – but peer pressure all the same. There was also a practical reason for my purchase. I like to read what I call “fluffy” books before going to bed – after a day of reading nothing but [...]
Ocean As Desert
On my recent North Sea excursion to Norway and the Orkneys I often enjoyed standing on the outer decks looking out to sea. It struck me that the ocean is, or could be viewed as “the desert” in the same way that third and fourth century ascetics went out into the desert to master the [...]
The Incarnation & Active Christianity
“Don’t you think that Jesus is the solution to the problems in the Middle East – that it is only through him that peace will come to the region?” This is a question posed to me by a door-to-door evangelist a few years ago. It is a question that irritated me at the time, and [...]
End Of The World? Ummmm. . . .
I’ve been watching and reading with a mixture of fascination, pity, and even horror the various stories coming out of the US about the group predicting the arrival of the apocalypse on 21 May. Millenarian movements are fascinating, not new, and not limited to fringe Protestant groups – there was a serious millenarian movement in [...]
Abp. Matthew on Scripture
“The Holy Scriptures, instead of being the source or rule of faith, are . . . a record of the teaching of the Church in the first ages, a record confirmatory and corroborative of the faith, but one which was never intended to supplant the divine authority of the living voice of the Church.” – [...]