PlayStation came home from school last week and declared he was going to convert to Catholicism.
I thought all the talk on the telly about our own new Australian saint, Mary MacKillop may have inspired him.
He's an avid watcher of the news and he was quite impressed that Mother Mary was going to be canonised.
For him this wasn't about an official ceremony - more of a circus-like celebration where he figured Mary was going to be lucky enough to be shot from a canon and land safely in a net on the other side of the Big Top.
The last news story that grabbed his attention was when conjoined twins Trishna and Krishna were separated.
For weeks after, his journal from school featured stories about two little girls - Trishna and Theresa whom, he wrote, didn't have a mum or dad but found another one who taught them where the toilet was at the top of the stairs - but only after they turned 11.
His desire to join the Catholic faith wasn't, I discovered, from his observation of international events. Rather it was because the kids that went to Catholic scripture classes at school got to watch videos.
I'm not sure what kind of videos PlayStation thinks the Catholic kids get to watch, but obviously they're ones that they talk about on the oval at lunchtime.
Scripture wasn't something that got discussed in the quadrangle when I was at school. I must admit my memory is a bit hazy, but I can remember an older lady coming in and handing out colouring sheets of men in robes on donkeys wandering through a starry desert.
Scripture wasn't a standout subject from my primary school years.
Religion is now even taught in high school, and I was proud to see that in Year 7 Cybergirl topped the year in the subject.
It wasn't something I ever saw her studying for, so when she came home at the end of the year to tell me she scored 100 per cent in her religion exam I was a little surprised.
She explained the test was multiple choice. The trickiest question was this one:
What did God do on the seventh day in the Book of Genesis?
A. Rested
B. Went to the football
C. Created beer
Obviously, there are different altars at which we worship these days and this was perhaps a trick question to see who had really been listening.
Her religion teacher was apparently very impressed with her mark which made me wonder what it is that the other kids were taught during those weekly scripture classes in primary school.
GameBoy has often tried to escape his scripture lessons and it wasn't until half way through Year 1 that I discovered he'd told the teacher he was a Hindu and that since there was no-one to provide the necessary instruction he could use that hour to "work on" the classroom computer.
Reluctantly I had to explain to PlayStation that converting to Catholicism was something that he would have to put off for a few years, and when he was older if he still felt the same way, he could undertake the necessary steps.
He was a little disappointed but he's sure that the videos he'll get to watch in 12 years will probably be even better than the ones his mates get to watch now, because he reckons God may have caught up with the new technology by then and use that seventh day to create the ultimate animation.
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