DC to Catholic Church: You're our bitch! ON THE OTHER FOOT - November 20, 2009 ... basic moral tenets and like it! I'm impressed by Wizbang's good sense . He's not a fan of the Catholic Church, and in fact he thinks we're wrong on most of the issues. But he still has a high regard for the First Amendment, which is increasingly being interpreted to mean "everyone but Catholics." ... http://ontheotherfoot.blogspot.com/2009/11/dc-to-catholic-church-youre-our-bitch.html
+IHS+ SANCTA SANCTIS - November 20, 2009 +IHS+ On the Age of the Earth You can be a good Catholic and hold that the universe is thousands or millions or billions or trillions or quadrillions or other numbers of years old. The Church does not teach any particular age or age-range for the earth or the cosmos. You can follow the evidence ... http://enbrethiliel.blogspot.com/2009/11/ihs-on-age-of-earth-you-can-be-good.html
Ban the Gun, Not the Terrorist DAD29 - November 20, 2009 ... to effect the import ban. According to the letter, the Belgian-made gun "is one of the most popular with traffickers supplying Mexican DrugTrafficking Organizations (DTOs) who have nicknamed the gun the "mata policia" or 'cop killer.'" Jeri Bonavia, executive director of the Wisconsin Anti-Violence ... http://dad29.blogspot.com/2009/11/ban-gun-not-terrorist.html
Pope Benedict The "Liturgical Pluralist" JOURNEY TO A NEW PENTECOST - November 20, 2009 ... "The Vatican's announcement this week that it will allow former Anglicans who join the Catholic Church to retain a collective identity, using many of their traditional prayers and hymns in their own specially designed dioceses, is an event with profound implications for both Anglican and ... http://laydorcatholic.com/blog/?p=10696
What does the Devil really sound Like, and how does he think? Check this out! DIAKONIA - A BLOG BY DEACON PAT KEARNS - November 20, 2009 ... that brought you Radio Theatre's Amazing Grace and The Chronicles of Narnia. In his enduringly popular masterpiece The Screwtape Letters, C. S. Lewis re-imagines Hell as a gruesome bureaucracy. With spiritual insight and wry wit, Lewis suggests that demons, laboring in a vast enterprise, have ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/YhiD/~3/WN0nlf-8-yM/what-does-devil-really-sound-like-and.html
ASIA/TAIWAN - The celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the evangelization of Taiwan have ... FIDES NEWS ENGLISH - November 20, 2009 ... field, in particular for his service among the A-Tayal aborigines. Father Felice, how has the Catholic community in Taiwan lived out this 150th anniversary of evangelization? The celebrations began May 17, 2008 in Kaohsiung (the place where the Dominican missionaries first landed and evangelized), ... http://www.fides.org/aree/news/newsdet.php?idnews=25454&lan=eng
Devotions: positive and negative elements LITURGY REFLECTIONS - November 19, 2009 When reading the Vatican's Directory on Popular Piety and the Liturgy: Principles and Guidelines , as well as other official Vatican statements about Catholic devotions, one might be struck by the significance of two words: biblical and commitment. The recent Directory, for ... http://liturgy.blogs.com/liturgy_reflections/2009/09/dewvotions-positive-and-negative-elements.html
What CNN told Lou Dobbs INFORUM BLOG BY SHEILA LIAUGMINAS - November 19, 2009 One could imagine several possible scenarios in which CNN let the popular and http://www.inforumblog.com/?p=2646
An Agnostic Speaks about the Church in DC FLOS CARMELI - November 19, 2009 ... the typical move of politicians facing budget cuts -- make the cuts in the most visible, most popular, most needed areas first -- but that's where it ends. The Church does NOT use the poor as hostages for imposing its social agenda. Read the whole thing here. And I think his send-off is worthwhile: ... http://floscarmeli.stblogs.org/archives/2009/11/an-agnostic-spe.html
Whatever happened to devotions? LITURGY REFLECTIONS - November 19, 2009 ... essay written in 1977, identified a number of other reasons for the near extinction of popular devotions, particularly those devotions that were celebrated in groups. Like ethnic neighborhoods, certain socioeconomic groupings have vanished, along with the devotional life associated with them and ... http://liturgy.blogs.com/liturgy_reflections/2009/08/whatever-happened-to-devotions.html