tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35263742011-07-28T23:27:45.392-04:00A Religion of Sanityin essential things, unity;
in doubtful things, liberty;
in all things, charity.code monkeynoreply@blogger.comBlogger3981100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-20930836423930138572010-04-22T20:33:00.000-04:002010-04-22T20:33:09.359-04:00The more things change...
The more they remain the same.code monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-67731448610770431592010-04-02T13:27:00.000-04:002010-04-02T13:27:09.229-04:00The New York Times’ Smear on Pope Benedict
For Background:
The Myth of Pedophile Priestscode monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-1050819339864934942010-04-02T13:15:00.000-04:002010-04-02T13:15:29.741-04:00God bless and preserve Pope Benedict. He's doing enough things right that he has raised the hackles of the anti-Christs out there. Give him the strength to stand against the wolves that now attack him.code monkeynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-84428851075159309022009-04-09T15:21:00.000-04:002009-04-09T15:22:47.053-04:00An unlikely alliance?code monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-69060977015349924692009-04-01T11:49:00.001-04:002009-04-01T11:49:47.226-04:00Patron of the Artscode monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-75202799531378946462009-03-31T16:53:00.001-04:002009-03-31T16:55:12.708-04:00I found this intriguing Baby Boom with Patriarch Promise to Personally Baptize Babies #3code monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-23279471866448463282009-03-31T16:24:00.001-04:002009-03-31T16:26:31.906-04:00I thought that this was a pertinent articleMichael Coren: Anti-papal hypocrisy spreads faster than AIDScode monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-82711828063012465572009-03-05T09:53:00.002-05:002009-03-05T10:00:54.111-05:00Italian Catholics sacrificing texting for LentI think that this is an excellent idea in so many ways. First, it involves real sacrifice for people who use these products. Second, it's a highly visible statement which I think in today's world is important. Third, it encourages alternative social interaction. And finally, it serves very effectively to demarcate the season. I'd love to see this code monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-66220763343023016662009-02-22T18:17:00.001-05:002009-02-22T18:20:32.616-05:00I'll always be a part of youH/Tcode monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-18243259258947572672009-02-12T10:27:00.001-05:002009-02-12T10:31:12.712-05:00Recovering the past In fact, he said, one of the questions that most concerns the prelates is that despite the fall of communism, "its structure has remained in legislation and in judicial power, in the economy, in education and in culture," and especially "in the veil of silence that has been hung over the events of the recent past."...He continued: "The 'sons of lies' have gathered the pieces code monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-33225494187373863782009-02-07T11:39:00.002-05:002009-02-07T11:49:40.862-05:00SPXX and the PopeBeating Up on the Popecode monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-23011546634948014672009-02-03T14:12:00.001-05:002009-02-03T14:12:52.354-05:00Gallup Poll: Most Americans Disapprove Obama Funding Abortion Overseas code monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-25004116324624938542009-02-03T14:10:00.000-05:002009-02-03T14:11:10.258-05:00HeartbreakingPro-Abortion Marie Stopes Eager for American Funds to Promote Abortion in Kenyacode monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-70751150170490693442009-02-03T08:38:00.000-05:002009-02-03T08:43:12.087-05:00Standing with Peter. code monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-29183294692985599442009-02-02T16:32:00.002-05:002009-02-02T16:38:22.058-05:00Is Sustainable Development a code word for anti-human?Jonathon Porritt, who chairs the [British] government’s Sustainable Development Commission, says curbing population growth through contraception and abortion must be at the heart of policies to fight global warming. He says political leaders and green campaigners should stop dodging the issue of environmental harm caused by an expanding code monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-29581490269504419392009-01-31T19:53:00.000-05:002009-01-31T19:55:50.999-05:00Her name is Rebecca Kiessling. Her "crime" was being conceived through rape.H/Tcode monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-50632744585907033842009-01-31T10:39:00.001-05:002009-01-31T10:42:54.806-05:00How ironic that the ‘Love’ Generation should spawn such a culturally accepted abomination as abortion.H/T to Creative Minority Reportcode monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-40779294651845859872008-12-18T11:14:00.003-05:002008-12-18T11:19:36.857-05:00Christmas in Dubaicode monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-66219424674337885392008-11-10T00:02:00.000-05:002008-11-10T00:03:14.038-05:00Washington Doctors, Hospitals Refuse to Take Part in New Assisted Suicide Lawcode monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-23756453199656246152008-11-06T12:35:00.002-05:002008-11-06T12:39:08.444-05:00To Mr PennyPincher - on Church Adornment I particularly liked this line:"If the body consumes both the spiritual and the physical food, what will the soul feed on then? Have you not heard how the godless people in Moscow have turned everything into bread, ate it and now they hunger - and they hunger now like Russia has not hungered since the times of Askold and Dir"code monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-88069251845737836942008-11-05T10:49:00.001-05:002008-11-05T10:51:25.653-05:00From the USCCBThey bishops offered their remarks in a November 4 letter to President-elect Obama from Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.The letter follows.Dear President-elect Obama,I write to you, in my capacity as President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, to express our congratulations on your historic electioncode monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-12636820277318077472008-09-17T22:58:00.000-04:002008-09-17T22:59:37.806-04:00Happy Constitution Day!code monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-73409816327314921572008-09-15T17:09:00.001-04:002008-09-15T17:10:58.401-04:00Reproductive technologies are creating children who have no real biological parents. They deserve better.code monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-57458796775066003222008-09-08T18:09:00.001-04:002008-09-08T18:11:21.025-04:00I love this line.“If you’re Catholic and you disagree with your Church. What do you do? You change your mind.”code monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-1552528305313596092008-07-31T17:36:00.000-04:002008-07-31T17:37:38.223-04:00The Confraternity of Catholic Clergy is proposing Friday as a national day of prayer and fasting in the wake of the desecration of the Eucharist by a Minnesota professor.code monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-75018180814928469512008-04-04T00:42:00.000-04:002008-04-04T00:43:56.613-04:00Perpetual Adoration on the Mount of the Beatitudescode monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-61395458534712620042008-03-25T14:35:00.001-04:002008-03-25T14:38:09.669-04:00Something that I didn't know:The Saudi Arabian government has just announced that 40,000 Imams will be “retrained” to eliminate extremist tendencies in their teachings.from Osama and The Popecode monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-32341828166861155852008-02-19T03:06:00.001-05:002008-02-19T03:08:46.178-05:00The first Catholic Church in Qatar in over 14 centuriesOnce St Mary's open its doors to the faithful, Saudi Arabia will be the only Gulf country that still prohibits the building of churches within its borders.code monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-4732790431893426722008-02-12T03:04:00.000-05:002008-02-12T03:05:43.797-05:00The Road of Bitter Sweetcode monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-38152241314141507362008-01-17T13:59:00.000-05:002008-01-17T14:25:28.490-05:00FREEDOM!"If the Pope won't come to La Sapienza, La Sapienza will come to the Pope.""This is just a part of the secularist culture that has no argument, so it demonizes, it does not argue as a real secular culture, but creates monsters." Professor Giorgio Israelcode monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-60430065121074576992007-12-25T00:29:00.000-05:002007-12-25T00:30:42.197-05:00O Holy Night! The stars are brightly shining,It is the night of the dear Saviour's birth.Long lay the world in sin and error pining.Till He appeared and the Spirit felt its worth.A thrill of hope the weary world rejoices,For yonder breaks a new and glorious morn.Fall on your knees! Oh, hear the angel voices!O night divine, the night when Christ was born;code monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-11251451275528698532007-11-24T16:31:00.000-05:002007-11-24T16:33:57.151-05:00US and Iran in talks on IraqUS general says Iran helping stop Iraq bloodshedcode monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-54054170204118503052007-11-20T01:06:00.000-05:002007-11-20T01:08:07.112-05:00This is truly amazing[h.t. Mark Shea ]code monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-16667338021424728392007-11-19T18:34:00.000-05:002007-11-19T19:47:57.948-05:00Iraqi Muslims Message to Iraqi Christians "Come Home" to Doracode monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-18155137909099391512007-11-08T09:56:00.000-05:002007-11-08T09:58:25.740-05:00I just read this and I wanted to pass it on!Keep your forkcode monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-4123653555301064472007-11-08T09:10:00.000-05:002007-11-08T09:15:46.612-05:00Pope Benedict XVI and Saudi King Abdullah Abdullah focus on religious freedom, says Arab press. The Saudi monarch met the Pope in his capacity as “Custodian of the two holy mosques.”code monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-5637717171642105312007-11-02T19:27:00.000-04:002007-11-02T19:28:17.755-04:00Fresh protest by monks in Myanmarcode monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-89950510672354159412007-10-24T19:31:00.000-04:002007-10-24T19:33:39.338-04:00"In your mercy keep us free from sin and protect us from all anxiety as we wait in joyful hope for the coming of our Savior, Jesus Christ." The Masscode monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-91546963771672496302007-10-23T12:15:00.000-04:002007-10-23T12:18:25.522-04:00I know that this is an old story but it's worth postingThe man who saved millions of livescode monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-7911803624133790352007-10-22T00:34:00.000-04:002007-10-22T00:37:06.948-04:00Let's celebrate the Apocalypse"These masterpieces will help visitors to reread the last book of the Holy Scripture. The Apocalypse is not the worrying announcement of a catastrophic end to humanity, but a great proclamation of the failure of the infernal evils and of the mystery of Christ." - Cardinal Tarcisio Bertonecode monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-52967621908619882642007-10-20T01:09:00.001-04:002007-10-20T01:17:47.992-04:00Cardinal Praises Muslims for "Eloquent" Letter"Each party must be concerned with its own spiritual identity. We ourselves have, as Christians, to manifest that Jesus Christ reveals God in a complete and definitive manner."Regarding dialogue with other religions, Cardinal Taruan said: "The discourses of the Pope are very clear. He said, in Cologne: 'Dialogue with Islam it not an option, but a code monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-24693438307675940172007-10-18T18:44:00.000-04:002007-10-18T18:47:30.049-04:00Rosary Crusade 2007"Catholics took to the streets of London to proclaim their devotion to the Mother of God during the Rosary Crusade of Reparation. Nearly two thousand faithful thronged the route from Westminster Cathedral to Brompton Oratory as the four foot high statue of Our Lady of Fatima, blessed by Pope Pius XII, was carried in a manner fit for a queen."Slideshowcode monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-90093525779495725622007-10-15T21:50:00.000-04:002007-10-15T21:52:50.609-04:00"Hitchens' idiosyncratic ideas and positions preclude easy classification" -wikipedia"Perplexed conservatives can stop wondering what Hitchens really wants. He wants to live — and presumably wants all of us to live — in a society resembling Moorish-occupied Spain......Hitchens grants that Moorish Spain is a long way from the 'secular state' he proposes in the same article. He nonetheless goes oncode monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-90671222419971569042007-10-15T01:11:00.000-04:002007-10-15T01:31:20.249-04:00Which Middle East country held Spontaneous Candlelight Vigils for victims of the World Trade Center Attack on 9/11? * Kuwait - No. * Saudi Arabia - No. * Israel - No. * Iran - Yes. More Picturescode monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-68158905600369632792007-10-14T23:33:00.000-04:002007-10-14T23:38:52.496-04:00To Bury the Dead: A Corporal Act of MercyIn an abortion debate held in Italy some years ago, a pro-abortion leader challenged a Catholic opponent, "If you really believe these fetuses are persons, why doesn't the Church bury them?"Glad you asked.The fact is, we do. And there is a growing movement to make the proper and dignified burial of aborted children more widely known and practiced. I code monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-33389340666444132812007-10-14T23:18:00.000-04:002007-10-14T23:26:12.757-04:00A fascinating interview with Dr Alice von Hildebrand at Catholic Media CoalitionI am very concerned that there are "fanatical" Catholics who use the Faith and the truth it proclaims as an intellectual toy. An authentic appropriation of the truth always leads to a striving for holiness. The Faith, in this present crisis, is not an intellectual chess game. For anyone not striving for holiness, thatcode monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-34111837996197516522007-10-14T22:25:00.000-04:002007-10-14T22:27:50.088-04:00I thought that this was interestingVatican Film Festivalcode monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-9139107731024526022007-10-11T13:03:00.000-04:002007-10-11T13:06:45.162-04:00I think that this portfolio is lovely.Hat tip to Carrie Tomko at Still Running Off at the Keyboardcode monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-62510100869428108632007-10-08T02:09:00.000-04:002007-10-08T02:10:35.130-04:00More on Iran"Suppose they gave a war and nobody came...."code monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-8060482031542539792007-10-03T20:57:00.000-04:002007-10-03T20:58:30.661-04:00Thoughts on Irancode monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-1162355867746758442006-10-31T22:41:00.000-05:002006-10-31T23:41:05.726-05:00In recognition of 'Halloween' traditions: American TraditionsIn Japan, the American Tradition has become a 'new' holidayElsewhere: A more traditional approach is maintainedFolkLore in LouisianaMexico's Día de los Muertos Common Misconceptions About the Day of the Dead CelebrationsMayans bring out dead in intimate graveyard rite Spain's La CastañadaIn the Philippines Araw ng mga Patay In PeruIn code monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-1162352331001731332006-10-31T22:38:00.000-05:002006-10-31T22:38:51.020-05:00Mirror test implies elephants self-awarecode monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-1162345830870328592006-10-31T20:50:00.000-05:002006-10-31T20:51:02.256-05:00If you truly believe marriage is sacred, make it socode monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-1162339262532212182006-10-31T19:00:00.000-05:002006-10-31T19:01:02.533-05:00Pope's November prayer intentionscode monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-1162338694601717252006-10-31T18:50:00.000-05:002006-10-31T18:51:34.616-05:00US bishops submit plan to Sec. Rice in effort to protect Christians in Iraqcode monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-1161710750830045212006-10-24T13:18:00.000-04:002006-10-24T13:27:20.753-04:00At the heart of Catholicism lies God's Self revelation. The Trinity is a view into God's own most intimate nature. I am often surprised by the argument that the Trinity refutes the idea of the Oneness of God. This Oneness is an indispensable reality of God but it is also an exterior understanding of God. The Trinity, on the other hand, is an expression of God's experiential nature. That is one ofcode monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-1161499388858190992006-10-22T02:42:00.000-04:002006-10-22T02:43:08.873-04:00Oriana Fallaci has left most of her books and notes to a pontifical university in Rome because of her admiration for Pope Benedict XVI."the pope has said we must live in the world as if God existed and she (Fallaci) took up the challenge."code monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-1160949095620493942006-10-15T17:48:00.000-04:002006-10-23T09:29:43.016-04:00Ever since I said that I wanted to begin a dialogue on culture, I've been feeling rather tongue-tied. I wonder if people realize how difficult it is to talk across the chasm between cultures. I remember my own approach to Catholicism.How easy it was to discuss the concerns and considerations that I had with my secular friends. Even in conversations with my Catholic friends, it seemed as if we code monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-1160935234096982922006-10-15T13:59:00.000-04:002006-10-15T14:00:34.096-04:00A barbaric kind of beautycode monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-1160934857531189252006-10-15T13:47:00.000-04:002006-10-15T13:54:17.556-04:00I think that this is lovely:Former abortion clinic ‘resurrected’ as Catholic chapelcode monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-1160845375953219972006-10-14T12:58:00.000-04:002006-10-14T13:02:55.966-04:00I didn't blog on the original controversy but I thought that this was an interesting follow-up.code monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-1160700332975168542006-10-12T20:41:00.000-04:002006-10-12T20:45:32.993-04:00"...there remains one elephantine aspect of the offending late 14th century exchange between the Byzantine ruler Manuel II Paleologus and his learned Muslim interlocutor..."code monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-1160698725897316552006-10-12T20:17:00.000-04:002006-10-12T20:40:31.910-04:00Catholic world to re-appropriate itself of its roots and identity Jesus calls his disciples and collaborators from the most diverse social and religious groups," the pope said. "He is interested in people, not social categories or labels."code monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-1160609737367981892006-10-11T19:34:00.000-04:002006-10-11T19:35:37.366-04:00The furor over what Pope Benedict XVI supposedly said is another example of, not anti-Islamic prejudice, but anti-Christian and anti-Catholic prejudice.code monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-1160609523685259972006-10-11T19:30:00.000-04:002006-10-11T19:32:03.686-04:00Zionist Christians march for Zionism in Jerusalem Earlier this year, the Vatican's envoy in the Holy Land and bishops from three other churches launched a rare attack on the movement, accusing it of promoting "racial exclusivity and perpetual war". "The Christian Zionist programme provides a world view where the Gospel is identified with the ideology of empire, colonialism and militarism,code monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-1160609396095230402006-10-11T19:29:00.000-04:002006-10-11T19:29:56.110-04:00Be Firm in your Catholic Identitycode monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-1160534974819115112006-10-10T22:48:00.000-04:002006-10-10T22:49:34.833-04:00 "The Catholic Church is God's Romance"code monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-1160529611750719852006-10-10T21:18:00.000-04:002006-10-10T22:33:18.973-04:00From Australia:Leaving the Religion of Peace Mother fatally stabbed protecting her daughterFrom Egypt:Kidnappers Forcing Teenage Girl to Convert to IslamThe kidnapping of Christian teenage girls in Muslim nations has reached into the thousands.code monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-1160526758798148552006-10-10T20:29:00.000-04:002006-10-10T20:32:38.800-04:00 Our Lady of VictoryChesterton on the Rosary:“Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, “Do it again”; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead, for grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony...code monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-1160526575915261272006-10-10T20:25:00.000-04:002006-10-10T20:29:35.933-04:00Monasteries and Madrassas: Five Myths About Christianity, Islam, and the Middle Agescode monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-1160524772387119472006-10-10T19:57:00.000-04:002006-10-10T19:59:32.406-04:00Turkish Court Sentences Teenager to 18 Years for Killing Catholic Priest... Of course, Turkish is a secular state, but this is still good newscode monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-1160371302827413062006-10-09T01:20:00.000-04:002006-10-09T01:21:42.843-04:00Johnny Depp to Do Anti-Catholic Rex Mundicode monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-1160369360161777582006-10-09T00:48:00.000-04:002006-10-09T00:49:20.176-04:00Talking Truth to the Muslim Worldcode monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-1160350507697031252006-10-08T19:33:00.000-04:002006-10-08T19:35:07.713-04:00Man Wakes from Two-Year Coma – was Aware and Remembers EverythingYet there are bioethicists who argue that Brain-Injury Patients Should be Used for Medical Experimentscode monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-1160185481058297782006-10-06T21:43:00.000-04:002006-10-06T21:44:41.080-04:00What does outer space smell like?code monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-1160182624945350042006-10-06T20:55:00.000-04:002006-10-06T20:57:04.960-04:00More on Benedict"The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I believes the pope’s visit may prompt the Turkish government to respect the rights of minorities, different ethnic groups and religions."code monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-1160181575919146112006-10-06T20:35:00.000-04:002006-10-07T09:55:55.206-04:00I think the Troubles in Thailand are worthy of close attention:Calm only apparent in the generals’ ThailandUPDATE:From Making Way for Jihad "The question of offensive jihad is ... complex and controversial," writes Habeck. "The most widely respected Islamic authorities ... all assume that Muslims have a duty to spread the dominion of Islam, through military offensives, until it rules the worldcode monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-1160181166046788912006-10-06T20:26:00.000-04:002006-10-06T20:32:46.066-04:00FollowUp:The three Indonesian Catholics who wanted their execution public were denied last rites in violation of Indonesian law.code monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-1160125529775916262006-10-06T05:04:00.000-04:002006-10-06T05:05:29.790-04:00This is fascinating: Muslims Wage War Against France - French Police Casualty Rate Higher Than American Rate In Iraqcode monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-1160124438921063872006-10-06T04:44:00.000-04:002006-10-06T04:47:18.936-04:00A great new turn of phrase:In Denmark, a cabinet minister is supposed to have accused somebody in public of lying like an Imamcode monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-1160006456286707642006-10-04T19:58:00.000-04:002006-10-04T20:00:56.300-04:00This is a really intriguing articleAnd another interesting article by the same writercode monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-1159841521904126812006-10-02T22:11:00.000-04:002006-10-02T22:12:01.920-04:00Day Onecode monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-1159746131766870082006-10-01T19:41:00.000-04:002006-10-01T19:42:11.766-04:00Please participate in The World-Wide Day of the Rosarycode monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-1159745539807474712006-10-01T19:31:00.000-04:002006-10-23T09:23:08.233-04:00Several years ago I read a book in which the author was trying to inject a sense of the psychological divide between the Middle Ages and our modern era. To do this, he has the medieval narrator describe the main protagonist. The narrator begins his description by admitting that there would be little sense in providing the reader with a physical description. After all, a man's body changes over code monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-1159417925630566192006-09-28T00:30:00.000-04:002006-09-28T00:37:32.520-04:00This inner rapprochement between biblical faith and Greek philosophical inquiry was an event of decisive importance not only from the standpoint of the history of religions, but also from that of world history -- it is an event which concerns us even today. Given this convergence, it is not surprising that Christianity, despite its origins and some significant developments in the East, finally code monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-1159408345252869632006-09-27T21:50:00.000-04:002006-09-27T21:52:25.266-04:00This is a really great article and, despite its title, it isn't about Islam. It's about the WestSocrates or Muhammad?code monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-1159405715313225542006-09-27T21:08:00.000-04:002006-10-10T01:12:49.323-04:00In Germany, Mozart bows to MohammedUPDATE: Muslims agree it was wrong to silence Mozart operacode monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-1159397874267804572006-09-27T18:46:00.000-04:002006-09-27T18:57:54.286-04:00Pope Benedict on ‘doubting Thomases: "... people must find "the courage to say, 'I don't understand you, Lord. Listen to me. Help me understand.' Christians have 'the right, so to speak, to ask Jesus for an explanation,' the pope said, and asking for further clarification 'is the true way to pray and speak with Jesus.' Not only does this show that believers realize their own limited code monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-1159357591554787592006-09-27T07:45:00.000-04:002006-09-27T07:46:31.570-04:00Mona Lisa was a new mothercode monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-1159316409409677752006-09-26T20:10:00.000-04:002006-09-26T20:20:09.423-04:00 Public outcry forces church to keep St James the Moor Slayer's statuecode monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-1159312474893799742006-09-26T18:56:00.000-04:002006-09-26T19:49:45.150-04:00Papal Address to Muslim Leaders and DiplomatsAfter the Pope's unsuccessful attempt at "Irish Diplomacy", perhaps the most sensible response to this tiresome and perpetual complaint is for the Pope to ignor it and for Catholics to start demanding some apologies ourselves.Next time someone raises this issue with me, I might demand an apology. After all, the Vicar of Christ trumps all of the code monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-1159302308489623912006-09-26T16:23:00.000-04:002006-09-26T16:25:08.506-04:00The Pen, the Sword and the Pontiff"Those who blame the man who speaks the truth as he sees it, instead of the man who commits murder in retaliation, would be wise to ponder well the moral consequences of their own words."code monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-1159244782664635792006-09-26T00:23:00.000-04:002006-09-26T00:26:22.686-04:00What Aussie Muslims must do for Christian minorities"I challenged the tiny but loud minority of infantile Muslim protesters to siddown and shuddup or find another religion."code monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-1159240810332671612006-09-25T23:07:00.000-04:002006-09-25T23:20:10.363-04:00In Iraq, tens of thousands of Muslim men voluntarily stood guard around Christian churches at Christmas in the wake of threats of violencePalestinian militants stand as protection in front of a Roman Catholic church Muslim scholars in the United States and Canada plan to release a fatwa, saying Islam condemns terrorism, religious extremism and any violence against civilians, including suicide code monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-1159239159869352732006-09-25T22:33:00.000-04:002006-09-25T22:54:12.916-04:00Under the section titled The twofold symbolic weight of the killing of sister LeonellaAs seen in the history of the Christian persecutions, this time as well the method was chosen of striking others in the place of the one who was indicated by so many voices in the Muslim world as the main target, namely Benedict XVI, and not only because the Italian religious sister was an easier victim The code monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-1159232782319927802006-09-25T21:05:00.000-04:002006-09-25T22:15:49.686-04:00Interesting comments on the Pope's audience with Muslim leadersThe Pope And the MuslimsPope Benedict speaks to ambassadors of IslamBut About Those Muslim Apologies?The (False) Tale of Two Popescode monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-1159124785910914052006-09-24T15:05:00.000-04:002006-09-24T15:06:25.910-04:00Benedict XVI, Faith, Reason and Islam: the Real Messagecode monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-1159123529221155752006-09-24T14:43:00.000-04:002006-09-24T15:02:30.970-04:00Iranian director to summon Castellio and Calvin in response to Pope’s remarksSo let me get this right. The Iranian's response to remarks by the Catholic Pontiff is to take on one of the leaders of the Protestant Rebellion against the Church... go figure.code monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-1159031553130123502006-09-23T13:11:00.000-04:002006-09-23T13:12:33.146-04:00On Inquisitions, Crusades and Apologiescode monkeynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526374.post-1159006049636970362006-09-23T06:07:00.000-04:002006-09-23T06:07:29.636-04:00Cross Is Sign of Love's Victory, Says Popecode monkeynoreply@blogger.com0