Bursting Convent
Lack of vocations? Not if you ditch the newfangled ways and go back to the tried
and true. Link [http://www.catholicreport.org/?id=155].
Topic
Religion
A collection of 880 issues
Gumbleton
That explains a lot about this heretic (excuse my rhetoric, but the man is a
troubling bishop):
> Breaking ranks with his peers, a Roman Catholic bishop called yesterday for
state legislatures to temporarily remove the time limits that have prevented
many victims of sex abuse from suing the church.
Muslim Air
This can't be wholly accurate. It can't, right?
> A British airline banned its staff from taking Bibles and wearing crucifixes or
St. Christopher medals on flights to Saudi Arabia to avoid offending the
country's Muslims.
> British Midland International also has told female
Vatican Silent on Agca
Probably the appropriate response
[http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=41708]:
> The Vatican is accepting the decision of a Turkish court to free Mehmet Ali
Agca. The would-be assassin of Pope John Paul II will be released on parole on
January 12.
> Questioned on January
Gay Louisiana Priest
> Deciding he had to practice the honesty he preached, a popular priest has told
his family, his bishop and the people in his parish that he is gay.
> The Rev. Jim Morrison said he had been working since October on the letter which
he sent early this month
Increasing Brand Loyalty or Intolerance?
Wheaton fires a professor of medieval philosophy because he became Catholic.
Catholics are trying to hire more Catholic professors. Is this a renewal of
hostilities that have thawed over the past 20 years, or just intitutions being
loyal to their religious roots? I'm thinking the latter, and I
Something for Sunday Morning
Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, by St. Gregory Nazianzen:
> "Christ is bathed in light; let us also be bathed in light. Christ is baptised;
let us also go down with him, and rise with him.
> John is baptising when Jesus draws near. Perhaps he comes
Book of Daniel
I just figured NBC's Book of Daniel was offensive to all Christians, but
apparently not. The Episcopalians are so happy about it that they've started
their own blog (The Book of Daniel Blog [http://blog.edow.org/weblog/]) to
defend it and respond to (attack) traditional
Epiphany
THE FEAST OF THE EPIPHANY
THE WISE MEN, by G.K. Chesterton
STEP softly, under snow or rain,
To find the place where men can pray;
The way is all so very plain,
That we may lose the way.
Oh, we have learnt to peer and pore
On tortured puzzles
Keating Asks Questions
In his most recent e-letter, Karl Keating asks a few tough questions about the
Vatican's instruction regarding the ordination of homosexuals. Excerpt:
> The recent instruction regarding the ordination of homosexuals took, by various
accounts, anywhere from five to eight years to write. I realize that things