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September 2017

September 15, 2017

From the Vault: the Divine Wedgie Podcast Series

If you have been following the evolution of the Divine Wedgie over time, first up, a...

April 2017

April 04, 2017

The Laughing God

A problem many Christians face is being too serious. One can almost measure the level...

March 2017

March 01, 2017

Penances You Can Hear: Christianity, Pop Culture & Multiculturalism

Lent is upon us and Melbourne and Sydney readers have the opportunity to do their...

December 2016

December 16, 2016

Pontifical Sass: More Little Surprises from Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI

This is a follow up from a post last week, showing some of the little...

October 2015

October 14, 2015

Being Someplace Else: The Theological Virtues & the Anime of Makoto Shinkai (Podcast Now Available)

In a previous post, mention was made of a presentation at the Caroline Chisholm Library...

September 2015

September 14, 2015

Speaking Dates in Victoria

Blogger at large at the Divine Wedgie, Matthew Tan, will be giving a series of...

August 2015

August 28, 2015

Being Someplace Else

In the anime film Children who Chase Lost Voices, we are introduced to a girl named...

July 2015

July 17, 2015

The Media as Liturgy

A recent Spirit in the City day conference at the Queensland University of Technology featured the...

November 2014

November 27, 2014

The Rosary & Feminism

In the preamble of his apostolic letter Rosarium Virginis Mariae, St. John Paul II...

October 2014

October 23, 2014

The False Completeness of the Sixth Day

In the book of Genesis, all of the created world "in all their array" is...

July 2014

July 17, 2014

Is Christianity Addicted to Bass?

In Christian chant, particularly Gregorian and Byzantine chant, there exists a practice of underpinning a...

January 2014

January 17, 2014

Justice, Unity & the Hidden Christ: New Book by Matthew Tan

The theological publishing house Wipf & Stock has released the first book by the Divine...

October 2013

October 11, 2013

Tracey Rowland on Beauty and Salvation

The Perth-based Dawson Society hosted the John Paul II Institute's Prof. Tracey Rowland, who gave...

August 2013

August 09, 2013

Faith in Space

In an interview with Eric Jacobsen on Mars Hill Audio Journal, Ken Myers hinted at...

June 2013

June 14, 2013

Why Christians Should Shut Up

In his A Brief Reader on the Virtues of the Human Heart, Josef Pieper wrote...

February 2013

February 27, 2013

Ratzinger and Liturgy: The Cosmos and Facing East

On this day, Pope Benedict XVI returns to his status as Joseph Ratzinger, only with...

August 2012

August 16, 2012

The Ecclesiology of Getting the Flu

Mention was previously made of Augustine's notion of the City of God being on pilgrimage...

June 2012

June 04, 2012

The Theological Importance of Humour

One problem many Christians face is being too serious. When battling the powers and principalities...

February 2012

February 21, 2012

Benedict XVI on the Indispensability of Monasteries

The Vatican Information Service reported that, at a 9th October 2011 visit to the Carthusian...

February 17, 2012

The Ecclesiology of the HHS Mandate

Readers may have been following with varying degrees of concern the recent ruckus concerning the...

February 10, 2012

The Epistemology of the Mass

In a culture dominated by the consumer mindset, many tend to treat the Mass as...

January 2012

January 10, 2012

Pope Benedict XVI and the Future of Capitalism

Adrian Pabst, Lecturer in Politics at the University of Kent has edited a book in...

October 2011

October 27, 2011

Combine a Room, a Pope and a Feminist and…

Amidst the storm of concern voiced by population alarmists at the imminent arrival of the...

August 2011

August 20, 2011

World Youth Day Protests and the Universality of Economics

One should find interesting that, in the face of a slew of possible arguments protesters...

June 2011

June 06, 2011

Sayings of the Saints: Pope Benedict XVI

This post is a continuation of a series of short posts labelled "Sayings of the...