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Category Archives: The future and our choices
Catholic institutions are failing because of failing “Catholic identity”
On this blog I have harped incessantly about Catholic identity. I have proposed that a primary aim of Pope Benedict’s pontificate is to revitalize our Catholic identity. If we don’t know who we are and what we believe then we … Continue reading
Sunday Supper: guest spot
I haven’t posted any Sunday Supper entries for a while, for various reasons (none of which being “I forgot”). Today, however, I want to bring to your attention a great idea I saw in the “Power Player of the Week” … Continue reading
Memento mori.
Via the Laudator: Epictetus, Discourses 3.5.5-6 (tr. W.A. Oldfather): Do you not know that disease and death needs must overtake us, no matter what we are doing? They overtake the farmer at his work in the fields, the sailor on … Continue reading
Egyptian policeman shoots Christian girls
From Catholic Culture: Policeman shoots 4 Christians in Egypt Less than two weeks after a church bombing in Alexandria left 21 Coptic Christians dead, an off-duty policeman shot four Christians on a train, killing a 71-year-old man. A fifth person … Continue reading
Posted in The future and our choices
Tagged Coptic, Egypt, Religion of Peace, Sts. Nunilo and Alodia
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Bad news for small-c catholic schools
Could this be the end of small-c catholic institutions? I found this at The Motley Monk. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) told Manhattan College that they are not really a religious institution and therefore they can’t use a religious … Continue reading
More social engineering: passport applications
Via Fox News: ‘Mother,’ ‘Father’ Changing to ‘Parent One,’ ‘Parent Two’ on Passport Applications By Todd Starnes Published January 07, 2011 The words “mother” and “father” will be removed from U.S. passport applications and replaced with gender neutral terminology, the … Continue reading
Benedict XVI’s “state of the world” speech
When I look at issues having to do with the Church, especially how the Church interacts with (or resists) the “modern world”, I will usually try to see the issue from two perspectives: ad intra (from within the Church herself) … Continue reading
1 Peter 3:15
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Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament
Yesterday at Holy Innocents Church in Manhattan, in the afternoon, people gathered again for Vespers, sung in Gregorian chant. Then there was Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, Litany of the Most Holy Name (for the Feast, of course) and Benediction. … Continue reading
“Don’t Ask – Don’t Tell” and the CDF
I believe you all know that recently the “Don’t Ask – Don’t Tell” policy (DADT) for the US Military was overturned. Also, last Sunday His Eminence Donald Card. Wuerl was interviewed by Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday and was … Continue reading
Posted in The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged Card. Wuerl, Chris Wallace, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Fox News Sunday, homosexuals, military
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