Oct 4, 2026 · 14 min · 6 segments
Official podcast Channel of Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP - The Ninth Archbishop of Sydney. Here you will find his Sunday Homilies, and regular addresses delivered on a wide range of religious, ethics…
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In late 2011, economist Steve Hanke and astrophysicist Richard Conhenry produced a new calendar for the modern world.
Like the French revolutionaries of the 18th century, Their intention was to jettison the Gregorian calendar with its movable feasts and leap years, replacing it with a more rational year of 364 days.
In the Hankey Henry permanent calendar, we'd still have seven-day weeks and 12-month years, The Christmas and New Year would always fall on a Sunday, and other dates, like our birthdays, on the same day of the week each year.
And most public holidays would fall on the weekend, delighting corporate bosses.
This calendar could save the US economy north of $150 billion per year in penalty rates and days off alone.
Instead of the occasional leap day at the end of February, this calendar would require a leap week every five or six years to align us with the solar year.
Even secular holidays would mostly fall on weekends and not bleed into Monday, which plan would certainly not endear itself to Australians, the land of the long weekend.
We should be wary, I think, of theorists, business people, or sports promoters who would like to colonise the whole of reality, turning our homes into workstations, requiring us to be permanently available online, or requiring family, leisure, even religion, always to play second fiddle to profit.
GK Chesterton used to say that for the Christian, play is at least as important as work.
There our innocence is so secure that we can juggle with the moon and the stars and treat everything as a joke, he said.
In late 2011, economist Steve Hanke and astrophysicist Richard Conhenry produced a new calendar for the modern world.
Like the French revolutionaries of the 18th century, Their intention was to jettison the Gregorian calendar with its movable feasts and leap years, replacing it with a more rational year of 364 days.
In the Hankey Henry permanent calendar, we'd still have seven-day weeks and 12-month years, The Christmas and New Year would always fall on a Sunday, and other dates, like our birthdays, on the same day of the week each year.
And most public holidays would fall on the weekend, delighting corporate bosses.
This calendar could save the US economy north of $150 billion per year in penalty rates and days off alone.
Instead of the occasional leap day at the end of February, this calendar would require a leap week every five or six years to align us with the solar year.
Even secular holidays would mostly fall on weekends and not bleed into Monday, which plan would certainly not endear itself to Australians, the land of the long weekend.
We should be wary, I think, of theorists, business people, or sports promoters who would like to colonise the whole of reality, turning our homes into workstations, requiring us to be permanently available online, or requiring family, leisure, even religion, always to play second fiddle to profit.
GK Chesterton used to say that for the Christian, play is at least as important as work.
There our innocence is so secure that we can juggle with the moon and the stars and treat everything as a joke, he said.
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