Has the Rubber Hit the Road?

Not really. We recommend everyone, and especially ABC news & current affairs folk, wait to read the whole thing in full context. In any event, it won't make the Greens happy: the pope is not saying that homosexual activity or "gay marriage" are OK. Nor can he.

A new perspexive on baptism

Inflated Opinion

Perhaps the organisers of the "Christus Rex" traditionalist pilgrimage could consider using - instead of an horse float - this inflatable church next year, especially since the interior is so strikingly similar to the recently dedicated "Sagrada Famiglia" in Barcelona.

A Pilgrim's Prose Poetry...

This penned by one of our pilgrims who claims he isn't obsessed...

I love the Holy Horse-Float

Built of ingenious design

Strune with beautiful carpets

And fittings rich and fine.

This is quite a different Horse-Float

From the Horse-Floats that I see

With a horse’s arse stuck half way out
And staring right at me!

You will not find another Horse-Float

Kept quite so clean as this

You will not find a trace of horse’s shit

or any horse’s piss!

This Horse-Float has an altar

And on it one says Mass

And it never could provoke a thought

That seems blasé or crass.

I love this Holy Horse-Float

It makes me feel so proud

To belong to a religion

Where this type of thing’s allowed!

Banjo Patterson he aint!

An Extraordinary Form of Horsing Around...

Pilgrims will recall the "traddie-bashing" episodes where Hardman Window had the temerity to comment on the habit, hats & choir-dress of the senior clergy of the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest, (ICKSP), based in Griciliano, and posted an ill-received "doppelganger" of Wach & Goering.

Traddie's are known for taking themselves very seriously and so imagine our surprise when someone floated the opinion that there had been some sort of liturgical horsing around at the recent Christus Rex Pilgrimage...

Caption Competition

Harry Butler goes a Roamin...

This was to be a "caption competition"...

...but then I saw the second photo from the Wollongong diocese Mass for St Mary MacKillop. Grey water?

Is it some sort of environmental statement? Please explain.

Pictures credit: Illawarra Mercury

A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss...

Well gentle pilgrim it has been a while in the making but the resident Cult Leader over at aCatholica has spent some time distilling into a singkle statement his 'catholicism demonstrating to all how to confuse a 'sense' with nonsense...

"To me personally, God is no longer someone to be worshipped and appeased. My concept of God is of the ideal person whom we seek to think and act like. In the ancient words of Gregory of Nyssa, "The goal of the virtuous life is to become like God." That insight not only defines the purpose and meaning of our life. In a very real sense it also helps define our understanding of the Divine and our sense of a "personal" God."

Brian Coyne

That he even considers himself Catholic is baffling to most but Pilgrims wishing to better understand Mr Coyne's special blend could reference the emminently more influential theologian and Vatican II peritus, Henri Cardinal de Lubac, who chronicled the phenomena of such paradigm shifts in his work The Drama of Atheistic Humanism.

Among the guff Coyne has committed to print there was however one statement which struck a chord with some in The Cloister...

The general view seemed to be that we "just had to be patient and eventually the 'old foggies' would die off and the ideas of Vatican II would blossom into full flower". Any "resistance" to the ideas of Vatican II were seen as an age-related thing associated with people too old to change their ways or thinking in the sense that "you can't teach an old dog new tricks".

Brian Coyne

Well Brian, here in The Cloister we intend to continue patiently and joyfully fulfiling our human duty to worship God, secure in the knowledge to quote a classic hit from your youth...