Invitation to Oxford Newman Society
The President of the Oxford Newman Society who happens to read this blog, has invited me to be on a panel possibly speaking about the issue of homosexuality in the context of the teaching of the Church or maybe something on the Church's social teaching. Details are sketchy at the moment, but will update when I know more...
If anyone read the original draft of this post, they will find the revision of it to be very amusing indeed...
If anyone read the original draft of this post, they will find the revision of it to be very amusing indeed...

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Conversely, he may be leaving it there to put off the women.
Laurence, pleeeeeeze change it! Why won't you?
You'll be a very good and worthy spokesman for the Church. The fact that you try and live by the truth, and chose God over ego, is a great witness - especially to a world where wants and desires dictate morality.
Oh dear, the Tabletistas really are desperate... Not long now until they become a shadow of a memory no-longer worth contemplating!
"The Gates of Hell shall not prevail..."
If you speak the truth just remember it won't be you speaking - you'll be a conduit for everything that makes us who we are....
PRACTISE!!!!
Get yourself a mirror - gather your 'linguistic soundbite' ammo; read as much Chesterton as you can...
This is a beginning...remember if that Taliban Watch see you as a force for concern - YOU ARE!!! [but don't forget to say a little prayer for her ]
Will be praying hard for you x
What's with this "Tabletista" remark in response to the Catholic Taliban Watch comment.
I AM THE HOLDER OF THE FILE and I am very much an alpha male (or so I have been told).
Blessed John Henry reminds you
"As ye sow, so shall ye reap".
yes banners and hot pants!!!
we will qoute you because you claim to be a higher authority than the cathecism, indeed you claim to be the church's teaching magesterium.
Be careful what you say because we will be recording the debate and if you make unsubstantiated assertions unsupported by the catecism then we will make a complaint of hate speach to the police and rightful bishops of this country. Be warned!
We are not the tabletinistas, we are average catholics with a better understanding of the nuances of catholic teaching than Mr England.
No not the CDF, your local Bishop who has the canonical right to make a judgement against you!
Forget the labels (and Oxford). Your stuff can be really good.
Or are you in both?
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01865 276993
Someone in the SCR spiked my drink knowing full well my stomach was empty, of meat at least!
Seriously, the group is real. They are unlikely to wear hot pants when they are outside so they can blend with the crowd.
We blokes don't like the girls showing off their charms for publicity but they do have some serious axes to grind.
If you haven't done your homework you will be slaughtered in debate.
Look out for my girlfriend Alice formerly known as "Malice in Wonderland". She knows the Cathecism backwards.
Excellent news! Am looking forward to your visit to Oxford. I had the good fortune to meet you in London during the Papal Visit and Rosary Crusade.
You seem to have some rather unhinged characters posting in your comments thread, but rest assured that you'll receive a warm welcome from the Catholic community here if/when you visit.
“I want a laity, not arrogant, not rash in speech, not disputatious, but men [sic?] who know their religion, who enter into it, who know just where they stand, who know what they hold and what they do not, who know their creed so well that they can give an account of it, who know so much of history that they can defend it”.
Bring your Catechism. (or you can borrow mine). Do you have a date yet?
She sounds hot mate!
I don't get what the Taliban's problem is with Laurence? You guys keep employing rap battle diction repeatedly enticing him to bring 'it' or 'the catechism' but what exactly is he saying that's so un-Catholic, specifically?
You may be not of the world but you still have to be in it guys, and right now you sound like a bunch of insular Catholics who spend too much time reading the Catechism and forget how to communicate with their brethren because they're too busy repeating the Pope's and Newman's words to speak from their heart.