Nov

29

The Church on abortion

November 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment

From Fr. Joe’s website, with a wonderful background of Ubi Caritas.

If you cannot see the video, click here.

Nov

24

Had to share

November 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Lives of the Most Eminent Fathers of the Church, a book by William Cave published in 1840 by J. Vincent or T. Tegg, London, is available in Full View on Google Books. Nice. Click the link.

Nov

24

>:(

November 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment

You may find here an annoying picture of the Lord and Buddha, seemingly portrayed as twins in the womb by a Chinese artist.
The artwork is really good, though.

Nov

23

On that open letter

November 23, 2007 | 1 Comment

Thanks to Guard Duty. Bishop Hinder speaks.
“He has called for more freedom and security for minority Christians in Saudi Arabia and more freedom for foreign priests to enter the country to administer to them.”
He also notes that
“for Christians love of neighbor extends to love of enemy, even if that person is of [...]

Nov

17

A few notes on baptism

November 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment

This comes from the my reading of the first essay in Oscar Cullmann’s Baptism in the New Testament:
* Jesus did not baptise himself, from Gospel accounts. Baptism existed before the NT times and featured in Jewish proselyte baptism and in the Qumran community. The novelty of the approach of the early Church (beginning with the [...]

Nov

15

The golden what?

November 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Uh, compass. An atheist movie aimed at children that seems to me, from the summary of the books it is based on and the trailer I found at Apple dot com, to demonise the Church as well as to distort God and Revelation. From what we’ve seen, such thoughts can create world religions. Accordingly, I [...]

Nov

15

St. Albert the Great Day

November 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Through my association with Blackfriars (attending a lay theology course here), I am reading more St. Thomas than I normally would have. I assume that brings me a host of new Dominican saints as patrons. Today the Church celebrates St. Albert the Great of the thirteenth century, mentor of St. Thomas. AmericanCatholic tells me that [...]

Nov

14

Interesting links

November 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment

This is a new page I’m linking to this blog that can be accessed from the little menu at the top. All the links I’ve been adding to my Facebook share folder over the last few months.

Nov

13

When I tried to draw up a statue of the Sacred Heart…

November 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment

…at the local church, with a fountain pen:

Nov

10

Unbelievers, natural law and revelation

November 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment

I got my hands on a wonderful book called The Story of a Soul, St. Therese’s beautiful song of praise to God. St. Therese was a Carmelite nun at about the turn of the twentieth century. A little bit from page 3 of the new translation from Robert J. Edmonson CJ:
“…I wondered why poor primitive [...]

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