Oct

29

Baptism

October 29, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Today is the anniversary of my baptism. On this event, I post the Catechism entry on this most essential sacrament:
252. This sacrament is primarily called Baptism because of the central rite with which it is celebrated. To baptize means to “immerse” in water. The one who is baptized is immersed into the death [...]

Oct

29

More anti-Christian nonsense

October 29, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Today I found that nasty book on the Turin Shroud by the authors of the ‘Templar Revelation’ book. I’m not even going to Amazon-link those trash books. It’s sufficient to say that those nuts will attribute anything they cannot understand to a medieval scientist-artist called Leonardo from a town called Vinci.
This time, they got [...]

Oct

29

Discover WikiMapia

October 29, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Discover WikiMapia. Below is a shot of Vatican City. My connection is bad, so it doesn’t download all the squares the first time. It’s like an online Google Earth, but people can mark locations up themselves; the boxes visible in the screenshot are public mark-ups. The resolution goes down to individual houses, even in places [...]