attentively … the world is very satisfactory. It is merely the fact that it is real that makes it so hard to swallow. http://www.themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=28765
Category Archives: Religion
As Pure Story…
07-May-10Kung v. Benedict.
18-Apr-10buy Lurasidone online Kung comes across as just as stuck in his ways as his opposition – the old boring liberal vs. conservative battle the Church has borrowed from the culture – but he’s smart of course and says some very perceptive things in this open letter to the bishops. And the conclusion? Call a council.
National Catholic Reporter.
09-Apr-10For those who, like me, take a keen interest in what will come of the Church’s abuse scandals, take a look at the National Catholic Reporter. They now have an entire section entitled “Church Accountability,” which focuses entirely on this issue. One of their most recent articles notes the (hopeful) possibility of “complete overhaul of […]
In Brief.
09-Apr-10Is it not amazing that lying, deceit, fraud – whatever you want to call it – is not listed among the Catholic Church’s traditional Seven Deadly Sins? And here we see it still cannot shake a scandal whose deeper meaning is obvious: an utterly insufficient commitment to truth, truth at any cost, truth even if […]
Easter Services.
09-Apr-10I came down to the City to be with my fellow believers for Easter. I spent Holy Thursday with the Episcopalians, which was beautiful as always, and then Good Friday and the Vigil at a parish in Murray Hill. The experience of worship during Easter season in the City is unusual. The Churches are full, […]
The Vigil Readings.
09-Apr-10I was mildly disappointed by the readings that got left out during the Easter Vigil this year – notably the sacrifice of Isaac and Ezekiel in the Valley of the Dry Bones. Those are great readings! I suppose the sacrifice of Isaac is not PC, but that’s no reason to leave it out. From an […]
I’ve been quiet for awhile now, due to productive book-writing, guests, Easter in the City, and fabulous weather, which to squander by spending indoors when you don’t have to would be sinful. Today, however, I simply had to give my body a break – I’m a bit sore from outdoor labor and sun exposure. But […]
Oh My… Stone Shamu???
04-Mar-10Memory cannot really handle just how crazy the American Family Association – a huge organization, by the way, with 200 radio stations and all kinds of clout – really is. You need to be reminded again and again. One of their writers, Bryan Fischer, accused Seaworld of negligence by keeping a killer whale with a […]
Andrew Sullivan for Lent.
18-Feb-10I meditated on this piece by Sullivan all day yesterday. A friend called it the best thing he’s ever written. I don’t know what to do about it all, but I’ll start with two things: never presuming we are better than any other dictator or government we think we can topple or replace; trying to […]
Holland.
04-Mar-10There really is quite a bit of interesting stuff going on in Holland (surprisingly enough). The party of Geert Wilders, campaigning against further Muslim immigration to Holland – and, honestly, there is room for a discussion of immigration, especially as the economic reasons for it are now suspect, as capital go to cheap labor now […]