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Minutiae Part Deux

Is there a serious or profound reason why girls are not forthcoming about having their weddings in churches at the present time? Anything we can do?

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Russia

What have the Russians ever done for us that makes our politicians so mealy mouthed and unctious towards them in this present Cuba 62 Crisis?

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Val

Am I the only one around my village who does not enjoy St Valentine’s Day and is happy to see the old feast of lovers consigned to the bins of history, liturgical time anyway, since really speaking it is now the memoria of Sts Cyril and Methodius, right?

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The Music of the Firmaments

Is there some basis toward a theology of music in the writings of Tolkien and others of the LOTR Series, or are we reading too much into Tolkien?

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The Universe

I was reading through my astronomy magazine and it featured some interesting articles about the Perry Rhodan series, that is Perry Rhodan the American astronaut and explorer and not Perry Rodham of the Clinton Chelsea Dynasty, and they were explaining that so popular is this Series that it is being described as the new bible for astronauts since it is read with a certain strange reverence. Any further thoughts?

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Dieu de l’enfer

I am hardly the DMus that you might be after having started so many chorales, choirs, and scholas in the past, but allow me to confide that I have been listening to a modern ballad by the singer Giulia Falcone, called “SOS d’un terrien en detresse”, and I was surprised to hear the phrase “Dieu de l’univers,” which I maybe misheard or misinterpreted as “Dieu de l’enfer” in which the singer I thought seemed to be suggesting that the God of the heavens is also the God of hell, any clarifications on this little gem of a Gemma piece?

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Equity

I have been attending churches amazingly even over the Winterval period, and listened to some of the readings quite intently, and was surprised this Christmas to hear the readings from St Paul and St Peter about wives being subject to husbands, is this all still relevant or has it gone out with the Ark at last??

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Enter Stage Left

As something of a local positive professor, are you all aware so close to the action stations East Anglica Borders Regions, of the astonishing case of a Professor K who tried to intervene in the arrest of one of her students and was promptly arrested herself and taken to a police station in East Anglia and strip-searched and then chained up for a while in a police cell butt naked?

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KLM-TLM

Is it really true as European liberal speakers are now asserting that it is European Eurozone Faith that is really historically responsible for racism throughout the world and this chiefly because it is European?

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Why?

Why and wherefore that strange imponderable adage of the Western Codex in the generic segment on solemnities: “It is a presumption of law and human rights that the outward solemnities and vows in the form of words at wedding solemnities shall be assumed to conform to the inner feelings of the vowing parties concerned.”

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Dreams as Prophecies

Is it true that some charismatic Christians hallucinate medically when seeing things or must we leave room for spiritual sighting?

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Defect

Is it true what the PM said in PMQs last week that the Leader of the Opposition, Sir Keir, was once head of the Crown Prosecution Service, and in 2009 failed to prosecute the case of Sir Jimmy Saville, when his case came up for discussion and formal review? Can this astonishing assertion really be true?

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33-39

Diplomatically speaking, is a 1939 Poland now looming for Britain and Ukra - is there anything that can be done to stop a foolish and blind slide into a warzone within a month or two?

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Ukra

Why oh why is Russia always on the back foot in a Western Eu World gone mad, sad and bad? - A Posthumous Question from a long term dear friend called Fr Brian who passed away last year due to Covid 19.

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Clinique

Am enjoying your Dr Karl Sikora style NHS friendly responsories to our little questions of faith and custom, but was disturbed to hear that a Clinic in North London told a nursing undergrad that the Bible was racist?

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Titanica IIII

Given the desertion of ministers and aides from the Boris camp at the moment, and especially given the impression this creates like rats from a holed Titanic, is the recent philosophy of the civil service - “We shall work from home for ever” - a suitable or ethical philosophy to hold for a correct civil service?

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Vexing Vexatious Vexers

Why are the evil republics, and some Christian Republics at that, so given up to so much compo-culture and litigation to make the cows come home?

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Litigants

Wherefore the future for Legal Alitigious Agreements after NYC 22?

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Arise Sir Perceval

Why on God’s holy earth was Gordon Brown overlooked in the New Year’s Honours List? After all, according to Time magazine editors, he was single-handedly responsible for saving the world economy during the 2007 Credit Crunch?

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Bleak House

Have you any considered ethical response to the bleak situation in which we find ourselves, beset on every side by bad news in which freedom loving presidents are more and more compared to ancient figures from the past, and especially at the end of this 1347 style plague, and now rumours of wars, and even more urgently of talk among the right-wing republicans of first-strike use of the ultimate weapons?

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