It seems impossible to comprehend why Dylan Roof felt it necessary to gun down nine good Christian people at a Bible study. The fact that he planned the massacre, sat in the Bible study with the folks for half an hour and then opened fire is incomprehensible. His lack of remorse and cold hearted disregard for [...]
The Rosary is a powerful weapon against evil. But have you stopped to figure out why?
St Mary's Scottish Episcopal Cathedral, Glasgow This time it is the Scottish Episcopalians. As this article relates details about the Epiphany service at St Mary's Cathedral in Glasgow. The congregation at St Mary's cathedral heard the Muslim version of the Virgin Mary's conception of Jesus, from the Koran's Sura 19, sung by Madinah Javed. [...]
Love, by its very nature, is outgoing and in search of another. We are built to love and so God's command to love him and to love our neighbor is a command that would be similar to saying to a car, "You must provide transportation." That's what a car is designed for. The command is superfluous. [...]
Edward Pentin writes here about the possibility that "in special cases" Protestants might be admitted to receive the Body and Blood of Christ at a Catholic Eucharist. The debate specifically over intercommunion with Christian denominations follows recent remarks by Cardinal Walter Kasper who, in a Dec. 10 interview with Avvenire, said he hopes Pope Francis’ next declaration will open [...]
retro altar in the new Our Lady of the Rosary Church I am re-reading Margaret Barker's Temple Theology: an Introduction and am quite delighted by the way the new temple of Our Lady of the Rosary in Greenville echoes the symbolic furnishings of the Old Testament temple. Barker believes the furnishings of the temple [...]
Sometimes my mind makes big jumps, and I think this might be one of the clues to why and how I write. My mind makes connections that surprise and usually delight me and sometimes disturb me and sometimes all three. A case in point was my tooling along in the car [...]
Some atheists, Muslims and Christian fundamentalists like to grumble and gibe that the celebration of Christmas and Easter are “pagan.” They are right and they are wrong. They are right inasmuch as the wellsprings of our Western culture are deep in the pre-Christian cultures of Europe. They are wrong because the early Christians, like the Hebrews [...]
The Holy Father's favorite scold is against Catholics who are "rigid". In this he is echoing Jesus and the gospels. Jesus' big problems were the Scribes and Pharisees. Legalists without mercy, they famously sweated the small stuff--always taking the splinter out of someone else's eye while ignoring the plank in their own. They burdened people with [...]
I came down the steps this morning and caught the dog jumping down from the sofa. Anna knows she is not allowed on the sofa. She was guilty and she looked it. She glanced over her shoulder at me and went scooting off to her bed. She was afraid of being punished. She knew she had done [...]