New Pew study of religion in the US. More than one-quarter of American adults (28%) have left the faith in which they were raised in favor of another religion – or no religion at all. If change in affiliation from one type of Protestantism to another is included, 44% of adults have either switched religious…
Longtime readers of this blog will recall that soon after I started this blog in 2002 a matter arose to which I gave much attention. Catholic apologist Robert Sungenis had begun to write disturbing things about Jews; I saw that he quoted an “Adolf Schmalix” on FDR’s ancestry. This had an unpleasant odor about it,…
April DeConick on how she teaches about Gnosticism at Rice. She references a post by “Tony” on the subject, but doesn’t link to him. I found his post.
If someone asks you to take something, what do you do? Do you reach out, or do you wait for them to put it in your hand, or even on your tongue? Jesus said, “Take, eat” (Labete phagete in Matthew’s Greek). Some hope that fewer Catholics will do that, and will instead opt to open…
Rod Dreher has the latest fallout from Boston, linking to the Union-Leader and other sources. Fr. Thomas Coover is suing the diocese of Manchester and Bishop John McCormack (formerly an auxiliary bishop to Bernard Law of Boston); the diocese, on its part, “asked the court to dismiss the suit in August, claiming First Amendment infringements…
Chelsea Clinton was out for Catholic voters in Houston yesterday, with visits to two Catholic churches, Immaculate Heart of Mary (Hispanic) and Christ the Incarnate Word (Vietnamese).
From Rod Dreher: Homeschooling German families are fleeing their fatherland because a Nazi-era law still on the books gives the state ownership of children whose parents wish to educate them at home. Link to article in the Guardian: Home-schooling has been illegal in Germany since it was outlawed in 1938. Hitler wanted the Nazi state…
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