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Abortion: in general.

30-Oct-08

http://civilwarbummer.com/moduless.php       I’m going to tackle abortion in three parts.  Part one – dealing specifically with abortion and the vote – is below.  As I wrote it, though, I realized that the Church hierarchy’s approach to the abortion problem tells you a great deal about the problems of the Church hierarchy and why we are in for decades more of […]

Abortion and the vote.

30-Oct-08

buy prednisone cream             About a week ago, I was alerted to a recent sermon by the Bishop of St. Louis, the purport of which was: vote for McCain or roast in hell (full text here: http://www.stlouisreview.com/article.php?id=16208).  He contended that this election (like all elections, as I believe he thinks) is a referendum on abortion, and that Catholics, […]

Karen Armstrong’s History of God.

23-Oct-08

When someone writes a four-hundred page summary of the monotheistic West’s ideas about God, there are a few things a reviewer can’t say. You can’t say that the author left things out; of course, that’s the nature of the project. You can’t say that the treatment of certain things was cursory; of course it will […]

The Cursed Homiletic “We”

13-Oct-08

       Everyone agrees that modern homilies are terrible.  Nor has it changed much in recent history – C.S. Lewis, who otherwise seemed a rather contented Christian, talks about how insufferable the homilies were in the Anglican Church.  Catholics often envy even the terrible homilies the Anglicans have.        I cannot say how many times I […]