Heard the story? But the “man” isn’t a man. She’s a woman who had some of her bodily parts disfigured–but not all–and was taking male hormones, and stopped so that she could get pregnant. This is just evidence that there really is no such thing as “sex change.”
A Wisconsin student was penalized for referencing John 3:16 in an art project–he was given a zero and two detentions. He was also penalized for using religious expressions in a jewelry making class. Other students who drew demonic representations were not punished. A faculty member with Buddhist and Hindu symbols in his classrooms was not [...]
I hate to keep rubbing it in to my friends who are still inundated with snow up north <g>, but …. Today I mowed my lawn for the first time. The marigolds are doing well, and add some nice color to the walk. The gladiolus will probably bloom in another week. The hibiscus by the [...]
Catholic Relief Services, “the official international relief and development agency of the U.S. Catholic community,” “founded in 1943 by the Catholic Bishops of the United States,” has found a way around Catholic teaching, according to Germain Grisez. It just demands that things it produces that contradict Catholic teaching omit the CRS logo. Grisez calls for [...]
Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos has reiterated that no priest needs to seek permission to celebrate the traditional Latin mass. This is a slap in the face of all those bishops who sought to impose restrictions on it.
Also, he has underscored that only four bishops of the SSPX were excommunicated–not the priests or the lay Catholics [...]
Wal-Mart vs. Debbie Shank.
Matthew 24:12.
Immanuel Lutheran Church (LCMS) in Wecota, SD, lost its 104 year old church to fire Wednesday night. The pastor, Gregory Hinners, was one of the members of the volunteer fire department called out to fight the blaze. He’s my first cousin. Article and video. Another.
The new Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart will be dedicated this week in Houston. I was at the groundbreaking, and toured it a couple of times during construction (even got all the way up in the dome), and would certainly have been attending this dedication if I hadn’t left the employ of the archdiocese last [...]
I’m listening tonight to some music I first fell in love with while in high school–Lamb. It was one of the first “Messianic Jewish” recording groups. Now, I don’t want to spark a debate about that particular movement. I just love their music.
While listening to it, my mind wandered to those days of long ago, [...]
Scientists have deciphered a “phonautogram” made in 1860. It was intended to make a picture of soundwaves, in the hopes that sometime in the future people might be able to decipher it. What emerges is a scratchy, but recognizable, rendition of a woman singing, “Au Claire de la Lune.”
Newsweek looks at Barry Obama’s search for identity.
Pope Benedict XVI will be having an interfaith meeting at the John Paul II Cultural Center in DC, but don’t expect any dialogue. This won’t be an opportunity for him to hear from Jews, Muslims, Hindus, and others about religion in America, or their relations with Catholics. Nope. Only one person will be talking, as [...]
Rabbi Avi Shafran at Cross Currents on Jews’ attitudes toward other Jews, especially the anger sometimes directed at the Orthodox for daring to stand out in their dress and their Sabbath observance. Yet these same Jews can be very tolerant of others who do the same thing.
What it brings to mind is the story of [...]
Rocco Palmo suggests you check out things Pope Benedict XVI and his close aides have already said to Americans.
Mark Shea links to Sherry Waddell’s summary of arguments given by Muslim converts to Christianity. Here are some first hand accounts.
Of course, people go the other way, too. Here are some testimonies of Christian women who became Muslim. Some other accounts.
Clerical Whispers, blog of an Irish priest, posts some thoughts about the strategy of Pope Benedict XVI.
The pope is a highly educated man. He has written multiple books and is respected for his scholarship. He is the spiritual leader of more than 1 billion people. Benedict does nothing—especially when it involves altering church policy [...]
Oh, it’s a great experience, C.P.E. is. Lots of seminarians of lots of denominations go through it. Some of us have good experiences. Mine, at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, was mostly good, because I had a very good supervisor. But others suffer through it. It seems at times and at some centers that the [...]
25,703 primates were imported into the US last year–98% of which were macaque monkeys imported for vivisection. 58% of primates imported into the US come from China, where this picture was taken.
The Second District Court of Appeal in Los Angeles has announced it will reconsider its decision that would have made it illegal for anyone without a teaching credential to homeschool their children. It has asked for amicus briefs from a variety of educational organizations. San Francisco Chronicle. California Catholic Daily.
Back on February 20, George Weigel asked some questions of the new Jesuit general in his column for the Denver Catholic Register. Among them:
What will Father Nicolas do about Jesuits who are manifestly not obedient to the Pope or to the teaching authority of the Church? Take, for example, the case of Father [...]
The skeleton in Barack Obama’s religious closet is Jeremiah Wright–the skeleton in Hillary Clinton’s closet is “The Fellowship” (also known as “The Family”).
Never heard of it? Neither had I. It has been a player in Washington since 1942. It works quietly, behind the scenes, connecting men and women in power around the world, and organizing [...]
Roy Adams reports in the Adventist Review on a couple of Congressional hearings last month. He was there to hear James Standish and others testify on behalf of the Workplace Religious Freedom Act. He got there a little early, and managed to hear testimony before a different committee: Jamie Leigh Jones telling of her experience [...]
In Georgia, the Catholic bishops have come out in opposition to a Human Life Amendment promoted by Georgia Right to Life. Deal Hudson has the details. The Catholic bishops and National Right to Life are against it; Georgia Right to Life and the Thomas More Law Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan, are in favor of [...]
Julia Duin of the Washington Times reports on a freelance spying group that has been trying to infiltrate mosques. I’m more worried about the actions of these vigilantes than I am about the folks they are spying on.
From the Dallas Morning News blog:
As more states turn to casinos, lotteries and other forms of gambling to fill their coffers, religious opponents of legalized wagering say their words are increasingly falling on deaf ears, reports Greg Trotter of Religion News Service.
Indeed, he says, “moral opposition to gambling might be gasping its last breaths.”
Rod Dreher sees Magdi Allam and thinks of Ronald Reagan, especially his approach to the Soviet Union. He cites “Spengler” in Asia Times.
A self-described revolution in world affairs has begun in the heart of one man. He is the Italian journalist and author Magdi Cristiano Allam, whom Pope Benedict XVI baptized during the Easter Vigil [...]
