Religion

“The story is told of Cardinal Kaspar, who heads the Vatican Congregation for Dialogue with other religions. He recently attended a Greek Orthodox service. Some of you may know that their services go on for a very long time. Afterwards the celebrant said to him, ‘I hope that you were not bored’. The Cardinal replied, [...]

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Jihad Watch provides more clues pertaining to the Armanious family murders: http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/004740.php “The Armanious family had inspired several Muslims to convert to Christianity — or thought they had. These converts were actually practicing taqiyya, or religious deception, pretending to be friends of these Christians in order to strengthen themselves against them, as in Qur’an 3:28: [...]

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ECR does not spend much time commenting on bishops. My general sense is that a few are zealous, but the general lot of them are (at best) lukewarm bureaucrats whom the faithful should charitably ignore most of the time. Nevertheless there are times when ignoring bad bishops does more harm than good, as in the [...]

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Found an article at http://www.anti-feminism.com/ (now deleted!) which counsels men to avoid marriage — or at least to avoid marrying a feminist, which the author deems nearly impossible when it comes to Western women: “If you want to have children and value the security and love that marriage has the potential to offer then you [...]

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Now might be a good time to remember the speech of Pope Urban II at the Council of Clermont in 1095 http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/urban2-fulcher.html “Freshly quickened by the divine correction, you must apply the strength of your righteousness to another matter which concerns you as well as God. For your brethren who live in the east are [...]

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For those of you who haven’t heard, Charles de Nunzio has entered the company of traditionalist bloggers with his provocative http://www.charlesdenunzio.com/blog/ Annals of the 9th Crusade. He is a serious and careful writer to whom the frivolity of blogging must not come easy. Neverthless, you won’t want to miss his early entries. See especially http://www.charlesdenunzio.com/blog/2004_03_01_ar.html#107924130933041157 [...]

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Is not this rather the fast that I have chosen? loose the bands of wickedness, undo the bundles that oppress, let them that are broken go free, and break asunder every burden. Deal thy bread to the hungry, and bring the needy and the harbourless into thy house: when thou shalt see one naked, cover [...]

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Evolutionism is a theory that badly needs refuting, but you’re not going to do it by telling me that the creation of man and the creation of the fruit fly were equally miraculous events … OK, I promise not to do that. … nor by asserting vague reservations about the speed of light and the [...]

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