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Papal Mass

Friday, April 18th, 2008

Yesterday I was blessed with the opportunity to attend the Papal Mass at Nationals Stadium. It was an awesome experience that I cannot well put into words.

It was an exercise in organized chaos. Thankfully everyone had assigned seats, or I cannot imagine the mess it would have been. We took Metro in, [...]

Scary numbers:

Monday, March 31st, 2008

According to the most recent figures from the Vatican yearbook of statistics, the number of the world’s population that are Muslims is 19.2%, with the number of Catholics trailing behind at 17.4 %. 1

This is attributed to the failure of Catholics and other Christians to reproduce, a failure that is not shared by Muslim families. [...]

quote of the day

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

“He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles. Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do [...]

Christianophobia

Monday, January 14th, 2008

The term has been used in a couple of UN documents, and the Europe for Christ! network has launched a .eu website to deal with it.1 Would such a term be useful in dealing with the liberals here? I suspect not.

Zenit.org “Where It’s Not Easy Being Christian” ZENIT. 2008-01-14 http://www.zenit.org/rssenglish-21492 ↩

RIP

Friday, November 30th, 2007

I learned today that Congressman Henry Hyde has died, and gone to meet his Maker.1 Congressman Hyde once either said or wrote (I do not know which)

When the time comes, as it surely will, when we face that awesome moment, the final judgment, I’ve often thought, as Fulton Sheen wrote, that it is a [...]

quote of the day

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

“This does not mean that we should never take action to prevent evil, or should sit back and wait for God to do something. It does mean that we should not panic, or become needlessly anxious, or jump to rash conclusions, which may cause more harm than good.” - Melinda Selmys1

The “This” above refers to [...]

The false conservatives

Monday, November 26th, 2007

Mr. Robert D. Novak believes that the only “true” conservatives are those who are for a small, limited government with a low tax burden.1 He calls the “moral” or “social” conservatives “Republican acolytes,” and states that we are a “danger” if we support one of our own instead of a “conventional conservative.”2

I do not [...]

another one bites the dust

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

Former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson has joined the list of candidates that I would have a hard time justifying voting for.1 I am not sure that I can vote for a pro-choice republican, even as a vote against the democratic candidate who would be worse. I suspect it might be better, in the [...]

quote of the day

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

“freedom of religion is much more than the freedom to worship; it is the freedom to act according to that belief in the service of others.” - Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor1

Quoted by Father John Flynn, LC in “Imposing ‘Tolerance’: Christians Obliged to Approve Homosexuality” ZENIT 2007-10-29 http://www.zenit.org/rssenglish-20867 ↩

quote of the day

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

“Which religion, whose adherents accept the tenets of that religion as the truth about God, does not regard adherents of other faiths as holding imperfect theological notions? If religious belief is important, then to accept more perfect beliefs is to be more perfect.” - David Klinghoffer1

Mr. David Klinghoffer. “Tribe and Truth: Ann Coulter, Theologian” [...]

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