by PAUL COLLITS – CARDINAL George Pell wasn’t initially sure of his priestly vocation as a youth. He had a solid academic career beckoning, as well as a solid football contract inked in. He chose the priesthood, and, by George, it cost…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE war on Cardinal George Pell continues beyond the grave. How could it not? The stakes for the Mean Girls and their allies are simply too great. The battle lines have clearly emerged. On one side, we have…
by PAUL COLLITS – I HAVE two homes. One is in the wonderful Northern Rivers region of NSW, close but not too close to Byron Bay and accessible to its magnificent hinterland. The other is in the majestic Blue Mountains, west of…
by PAUL COLLITS – ALL this looks and feels very familiar. Déjà vu in caps. By now, everyone will know that Alan Jones, former school teacher, Wallabies coach, Malcolm Fraser speechwriter, 2GB radio star, one-time Sky News presenter (until Murdoch’s people shafted…
by PAUL COLLITS – TIME flies, even when you’re not having fun. It is four years this month since Sir Roger Scruton passed. He had cancer, and was 75 years young. Roger Scruton was a British philosopher of the first order, a…
by PAUL COLLITS – ASK a millennial for a definition of “statesman” and you probably won’t get very far. This could be for one or more of three reasons. One, there haven’t been any statesmen since millennials were children, so they don’t…
by DAVID FLINT – HOW did George Cardinal Pell, Prince of the Church, become a persecuted political prisoner, Australia’s Cardinal Mindszenty? When the internationally esteemed Cardinal is finally laid to rest in Sydney’s great Basilica, it will be in the crypt already…
THE Catholic Church is in danger of again splitting in two as Pope Francis prods his unwilling flock in a “damning” direction. The irrepressible analyst of all things Roman Catholic, Damian Thompson, recently described the Church as having split into what are,…
by PAUL COLLITS – IT HAS been a big week for Nazis and their discontents. First, we had the sad, though not tragic, passing of Pope Benedict XVI, Joseph Ratzinger, the German Shepherd. In what was to presage the reactions to the…
by PAUL COLLITS – AS SOMEONE who has written over fifty thousand words on George Cardinal Pell, I didn’t expect to be writing any more. The Cardinal’s sudden and unexpected passing in Rome, after a routine operation, has been a great sadness…
