Humble apologies!

I see from my site meter that at least six people have accessed this blog since I completed my latest entry in the small hours of this morning. Checking it yesterday, by the way, I noticed the rather sinister domain name of army.mil having been here at some point, looking at my comments last year about the sad story of Ken Bigley, the murdered hostage in Iraq. Perhaps this software which the powers that be are rumoured to use which looks for certain "trigger" words spotted something there- though it seems unlikely it would have left a trace if that was the case!
Ken Bigley and his family were devout Catholics, and no doubt their thoughts may have turned back to him as this morning they watch the inaugaral papal mass, as I do now while I watch it on telly and His Holiness Pope Benedict delivers his first homile in St Peter's chair. However, I haven't got much time to stay and watch this or comment on it yet as I have to read another bit of the teaching attributed to "old rocky" as I affectionately call St Peter, at the United Free Church of Feltham; I'm doing a reading this morning.
Before I do anything else though, I must apologise for any error of fact in my "early edition" which I shall correct later. It seems the Eastern Orthodox Easter is actually next Sunday- I think! At least, that's the conclusion I come to as Radio 4 will be celebrating it in Sunday worship then. The first rule of good journalism is check your facts- even if the scandal sheets get away with interpreting that very loosely. I suppose they take the view like pilate "What is Truth". That's no excuse, mind, for the Church Times- sorry, I mean the News of the World, to take seven torrid pages to spill the beans on the Beckhams again today (despite the couple's attempt to get an injunction preventing them doing so).

Nevertheless, getting back to papal matters, it's a touching sign to see the Eastern clergy very much represented at Benedict's "enthronement", and the gospel was read in both latin and greek this morning as a sign of the hope for the visible unity of the church. Amen to all that- and that's a fact!