De Omnibus Dubitandum Est.

Just back from a beautiful Mass. Great Scripture this week wasn't it? And I don't know about you, but for me, knowing some of the key facts in the readings meant that I got a lot more out of the liturgy of the Word!
I love my parish and we are blessed with a wonderful Parish Priest, Father Kevin Hale. I wouldn't be at all surprised if someone made him a bishop at some point, in fact, I think they would be wise to do so! He always delivers a great homily, but this week's I thought outstanding, so I asked him for a copy to share with you all here.

DOMINICA III PASCHÆ mmxiii  Whenever a statesman or politician dies there follows the inevitable outpouring of opinion about the good or ill they have achieved in their life and if they have been a person of strong conviction and action, then those expressions will often been even more polarised. We have heard quite a lot in this regard during this last week! After the death and Resurrection of Our Lord something similar ha…

I guess Margaret Thatcher's policies had a real effect on many people's lives in this country which is why she is loved and loathed in equal measure.

At this time, when I despair at the bland mediocrity of all of our politicians, as they bicker over the middle ground, and concern themselves with appealing to as bland a sensibility as possible, I can't help but look back at her strong leadership and direction with some sense of nostalgia.

I remember the excitement when she came into a power, part in no small measure, to the fact that she was a woman. There was great hope that she would change things; things which had been pretty awful as I remember, with candles due to blackouts and strikes that left the rubbish uncollected and the dead unburied. In a country that was sick of the power wrought over our lives by the Unions, the people voted en masse for change.

And she did change things, in what I can't help but think of as a somewhat Cartesian way. Governments practica…