Religion

Seattle Catholic today links to this article by Fr. Hugh Thwaites, S.J. http://www.latin-mass-society.org/thoughts.htm: “When people forget about Original Sin, they are unaware of the chronic weakness of our intellect and wills, and of our chronic tendency to slide into error and sin. Our faith needs a frequent input of doctrinally nourishing liturgy if it is [...]

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A Waverly Concert Christmas is absolutely the best Christmas / New Year recording ever. A rare and priceless treasure, I tell you truly. Play it all year ’round, each time leaving behind modernity and all its pomps and works and ways. I think I’ve figured it out. The religion of the masses, that is. It [...]

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Here’s my take on The Passion of The Christ. There is no subject more worthy of meditation. There is no event more important in the history of the world. Mel Gibson’s movie, I predict, I pray, will convert thousands. It is not in the least anti-Semitic, except to those who believe the Gospels and the [...]

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A new blogger http://bogners.typepad.com/church/2003/10/whats_th_ebig_d.html asks, “Why is it that some Catholics enjoy Latin so much?”: “I was born in 1966 and so grew up in the post-Vatican 2 church. I went to public school, and we didn’t learn any foreign languages there. And there was no Latin instruction in CCD. So I don’t know a [...]

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How disappointing. To appease his anti-Catholic critics, it appears that Mel Gibson has decided to depart from the Gospels where the Jews are shown in a less than favorable light http://www.beliefnet.com/story/131/story_13109_1.html. : “Paul Lauer, marketing director for Gibson’s Icon Productions company, said Gibson has edited the film to show more ‘sympathetic’ Jewish characters who were [...]

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The subject of the 1928 Book of Common Prayer always ignites a little nostalgia for my Anglican days. So it was in that frame of mind that I began rummaging through some old discs this afternoon looking for misplaced articles I had written. Because I am still an admirer of Charles I of England, whom [...]

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Here’s a little something to brighten your pro-life evening. Remember that building contractor who organized a boycott of Planned Parenthood’s proposed slaughterhouse in Austin, Texas? Well, on the heels of President Bush signing the partial-birth abortion ban, a commenter has more good news for us: “An update is that the general contractor dropped the job [...]

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In a recent discussion with Pansy Moss http://moss-place.blogspot.com/2003_09_01_moss-place_archive.html#106312141424572755, I said that I would try to post some research on divorce and domestic violence that specifically refutes certain commonly accepted “facts”. Due to lack of time my own comments will be brief. With respect to divorce, Dr. Steven Baskerville writes http://www.ejfi.org/family/family-3.htm in Catholic World Report: “Arizona [...]

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