Paul Attinello

Category: Indulgence

  • Indulgences

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    No, not Catholic ones. (Always amusing to note: although my father was brought up Catholic, and my mother Orthodox, they got married and became Presbyterian – which here, close to Scotland, is a tale that brings in a lot of incredulous looks. I suspect they want to know: why on earth would one become Presbyterian…

  • A weekend unblogg’d

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    “Another lapse in this book, I must confess; but if I do it against my humour I shall begin to loathe it; so the one chance of life it has is to submit to lapses uncomplainingly.” – Virginia Woolf, diaries, 23 October 1917 Friday two students called me back to work after I’d gone home,…