Correction:

"Your site contains a link to http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=5629&page=0, which, certainly… "

should, of course, have been

"Your site contains a link to
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/15/us-pope-resignation-immunity-idUSBRE91E0ZI20130215, which, certainly …"

Hi George,

You are obviously a more learned Catholic than myself. I appreciate your response. The world is a pretty complex place, hey. Nothing is always as it seems.

Bella Dodd was actually the Legal Counsel for the American leg of the Communist Party and she went through a heavy de-programming after she decided to leave the CP and was receiving counselling from a certain priest on the way to returning to her original faith.

Yes, Richard Dawkins, the (new messiah's) statements that raising your child Catholic is equivalent to child abuse, is simply outrageous. You once said, what is it with the English, in particularly who have such vehement rancour against the Catholic Church? Well, we can see what they did to Ireland.

I have nieces and nephews who were not christened until they were about 13yrs old and under. My brother and his wife, being very liberal minded, asked their children at this age if they wanted to be baptised. One nephew said, yes, I want to be baptised otherwise I'm nothing.

Hi Constance,

Thanks.

>>You once said, what is it with the English, in particularly who have such vehement rancour against the Catholic Church?<<

This must be a misunderstanding: I never said the like about the English. The Church is no doubt going through a crisis, and those who for whatever reasons are pre-disposed against it (or against Christians, or religion in general) are understandably capitalizing on it.

Hi George,

I don't know, I'm not going to go looking for a post of yours a long time ago, but I do have a pretty good memory, particularly when things stick. What I'm sure you had said was along the lines of "what is it particularly with the English who produce people like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens?".

Anyway, doesn't really matter, but I did find it interesting.

Constance
I understand your disappointments to some extent (your comment about 'workers') however the imbalance of the influence of corporations over democratically elected governments is due to a failure of the Left not because of it.

Would you really label the current ALP as a Left party? They are just as neo-liberal as the LNP with very little to distinguish them. It was the ALP who started the madness of outsourcing, economic rationalism, (eg. privatising public assets) and globalisation; and then the LNP ran with the baton. But I guess we digress from the main topic