Category: Christianity in the World
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What’s a Nice Guy Like You Doing in a Place Like This?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’m pretty sure that when you chose your vocation you were an idealist. How long was it, I wonder, before you realized they had groomed you to keep their wealthy donors happy? And that’s not even the worst of it. They expect you to make nice with a bunch of silver-tongued…
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Richard Dawkins and the Sadducees
Reading Time: 3 minutesRecently, a video of an old debate between Cardinal George Pell and Richard Dawkins appeared in my YouTube news feed. (Please see the video below.) I had to watch it twice to be sure I understood what I was seeing, but you can guess my impression of the debate from the title…
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Catholic Conservatives and Their Prodigal Brothers
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA recent interview on YouTube reminds me that the main concern of Catholic Conservatives is not so much the sex abuse scandal but the Church’s teachings about marriage. I don’t have a stake in the marriage debate but this interview reminded me of certain realities that I have come across in…
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Penitents and Cynics: Are We Seeing a Civilization in its Death Throes?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’ve found more English language videos on the proceedings of the conference on the protection of minors, and I think I had the wrong impression. I was working off of a liturgy that was not in English.
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Life in the Age of Pisces
Reading Time: 3 minutesDo the planets exert an influence on human affairs? Considering what we know about life in the Age of Pisces, I think the answer is yes. I would like to share the observations that lead me to this conclusion. If any of them contradict theological foundations, that is not my intention and…
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Sex Abuse Scandal or Free-Market Coup?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhen Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò decided to publish his letter, he went to the conservative Catholic network, with sites such as LifeSiteNews.com and National Catholic Register (owned by EWTN). In Italy he went to conservative bloggers like Aldo Maria Valli and Marco Tosatti. It was Valli and Viganò who timed the…
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Priests Are Being Attacked in the United States: Now I’ve Seen Everything
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSomeone has been attacking priests. It’s supposedly a response to the Pennsylvania investigation. We don’t know if these are organized attacks, or if several people just happened to have the same idea at the same time. It seems more likely it was organized, but either way it is insane behavior. Of…
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Undoing Partitions in the Middle East
Reading Time: 3 minutesHere in the United States we call it divide-and-rule. In the Middle East they call it partitioning. The Council for Interreligious dialogue is working in Iraq to eradicate finatical discourse in the name of religion. You could say they are working to rebuild the cooperation that has been torn down by the…
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Is April 17, 2018 Important to the War Hawks?
Reading Time: 3 minutesPreviously I wrote about the occult speech that Christine Lagarde gave in 2014, and about how she provided misleading instructions for the calculation of the dates in her speech. I was thinking about how the starting dates for World Wars I and II happen to add up to the number 7, a number…