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Blue Laws are Good?

Knock me over with a feather: There could be something good about those Biblical injunctions to obey the Sabbath: > Two economists examined the effect of repealing “blue laws”–regulations banning certain retail activity on Sundays–on church attendance in the sixteen states that have done away with such laws

Christ in Dreams

Over at Chesterton and Friends [http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11415684&postID=116022189358112307], a commentator posted links about Muslims converting to Christianity after Jesus appeared to them in dreams [http://www.amightywind.com/fastfood/dreams/040723muslimdreams.htm]. Maybe I'm behind the curve, but this is

A Great Week

This might be the best week of the year for saints: October 1 (or 3): St Therese [http://www.ewtn.com/therese/therese.htm] October 2: All Angels [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07050a.htm] October 4: St. Francis [http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=50] October

Something for Sunday Morning

> The measure of our advancement in the spiritual life should be taken from the progress we make in the virtue of mortification; for it should be held as certain that the greater violence we shall do ourselves in mortification, the greater advance we shall make in perfection. St. Jerome

St. Vincent de Paul

It's St. Vincent's [http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=326] feast day. By coincidence, I was talking with my daughter Abbie last night about charity toward the poor, and I tried to explain to her the difference between the "relatively poor"

Lewis' Overview of Modern Islam

Imprimis [http://www.hillsdale.edu/imprimis/] has run a good piece by Bernard Lewis about Islam (does Lewis write about anything else?). The guts of the piece is a fairly common overview of the modern Muslim world, but it's worth reading if you're a little sketchy

Something for Sunday Morning

"I have made a pact with my tongue; not to speak when my heart is disturbed." St. Francis de Sales

David Warren on the Muslim Rage

Warren is always good, and he's especially good today when writing today about the Pope's words earlier this week [http://archives.zinester.com/14807/106975.html]. Excerpt: > Here is the point Pope Benedict was making, also in the words of that learned Byzantine emperor, speaking

The Pope's Sin

Well, I downloaded the Pope's statement that is causing all the excitement, and I've concluded that it must be the statement set forth in the blog post below that set off the Muslims. Only one page of the seven-page speech mentions Islam, and that one page

Mad Muslims

Well, the news has broken all over the place: B16 made comments that offended Muslims. What were they? Here's a link to excerpts [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5348456.stm]. Although I don't know what got the Muslims going, perhaps it was this: