Bill Donohue of the Catholic League has been criticizing John McCain for accepting the endorsement of John Hagee for over a week now. At issue is what Donohue calls Hagee’s “anti-Catholicism.” But Hagee has done nothing but repeat the classical Protestant belief that the antichrist is a historical reality, embodied in the institution of the…
George Bush has vowed to veto a bill that would ban torture. This is reprehensible. I agree with Teddy Kennedy: “President Bush’s veto will be one of the most shameful acts of his presidency,” Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., said in a statement Friday. “Unless Congress overrides the veto, it will go down in history as…
The primaries and caucuses have narrowed down the choices … and what remains is depressing.
Margaret Sanger, the mother of Planned Parenthood, was a racist who was committed to eugenics. Students at UCLA have been doing some research to see if Planned Parenthood has really moved from its origins. See also California Catholic Daily.
Stations of the Cross–Without the Cross. Christianity Today article on an Episcopalian liturgy, the Stations of the Millennium Development Goals. Mike Angell of the denomination’s Office of Young Adult and Higher Education Ministries designed the stations for a September 2007 young adult conference. While the traditional Stations of the Cross meditation has 14 stations (though…
Pyromaniacs dissects Luke Timothy Johnson’s attempts to construct his own religion apart from the Bible.
From the San Francisco Chronicle: A California appeals court ruling clamping down on homeschooling by parents without teaching credentials sent shock waves across the state this week, leaving an estimated 166,000 children as possible truants and their parents at risk of prosecution. The homeschooling movement never saw the case coming. “At first, there was a…
As mentioned earlier, there are [update: false] rumors about plans of the pope to try to rehabilitate Martin Luther. Anyone interested in this possibility should read the Smalcald Articles, what Martin Luther considered his last will and testament. He prepared it prior to what was to become the Council of Trent, wanting to make sure…
Christianity Today: Mainline churches at odds with Israel. Oddly, it doesn’t mention Palestinian Christians, and the role they’ve played in appealing to their fellow Christians for help.
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