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About Me
- Joanna Bogle
- Auntie has learned, with mingled pleasure and amusement, that her Blog annoys some people, especially angry dogmatic ones, and entertains and encourages others of a gentler sort. This has confirmed her decision to continue blogging although Auntie's life is busy and she has duties and responsibilities which on the whole she knows to be of more importance. Auntie enjoys (although not neccesarily in this order)her work (writer, biographer, historian) and domestic duties, academic studies(Maryvale Institute), family, friends, and community responsibilities. She relishes the new translation of the Mass, the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, her own excellent local Catholic parish, traditional hymns (especially, perhaps, Anglican ones) rain, good literature, sleep, the English coast, Autumn, buttered toast, and a number of other things too precious and important to list here. She feels priviledged to belong to a Church which produced John Paul II and Benedict XVI and she finds their teachings an inspiration.
God bless our new Pope Francis
2 comments:
MercatorNet are a real mine of information with no political axe to grind, no ideological agendas, no spin to put on news stories around the world, they just go about and do a very professional job of telling it as it is, having gone to great pains to thoroughly investigate their subjects. This of course is a rare quality to find in journalists these days (you excepted of course Joanna!) as the modern media man or woman is content to regurgitate the 'party line' dressed up in all sorts of buzz word condiments trying to make their tabloid more palatable than the opposition. No-one is prepared to swim against the tide simply float with all the other dead and dying fish in a sea of mediocrity.
Reading the many articles from your link it is amazing to see how EVERYONE involved from grass roots level in Africa to seasoned Science Professionals AGREE 100% WITH THE HOLY FATHER!
When the media people finally get serious and study their subjects they will find that they have been responsible for fanning the flames of ignorance and deceit, because I believe the penny is going to drop sooner rather than later!
The more I hear and talk to people the more I find that they are not buying into all this media hype and nonsense about condoms and AIDS. God Bless our Pope - the Great and the good Papa Benedict!
Dear Auntie Joanna,
Your article on Henry VIII is very informative. On Channel 4 on the next 4 monday nights at 9.00 pm starting 06/04/09 is a series on Henry VIII and what was going through his mind as King.
As a prince and second in line, was he more happy with music, sport and culture, than the responsiblities and problems of kingship. Did he resent being King and being constained ? The programmes aim to find out.
Best Wishes,
Henry Ledger
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