Since "Many Catholics do not understand that the social teaching of the Church is an essential part of Catholic faith" and the U.S. Catholic Bishops "seek a renewed commitment to integrate and share the riches of the Church's social teaching in Catholic education and formation at every level." To that end, Center of Concern has "materials and resources to help parishes, schools, small faith communities, justice and peace groups, and others, to deepen their understanding of Catholic Social Teaching."
Speaking of social teaching, Fr. Tucker of Dappled Things posted some information about Just War Theory.
Mirror of Justice asks if no WMD means no just war in Iraq.
Continuing that theme, "the Holy See has approved an [sic] new tool and reference for religious education and faith formation in the United States", called "National Directory for Catechesis "
Razorskiss has done some analysis of TTLB Ecosystem rankings (traffic and links) for the Blogdom of God.
I hope this political correctness disease Sweden has caught doesn't spread.
Priests in Australian are apparently clamoring for permission to marry.
Wanna know what a progressive Christian is? Go here to find out.
Holy cow! Catholic rock bands do exist!
The Fifth Column blogger has posted a death threat sent to him by a Muslim.
Pro-choice CINO politicians are being sued for heresy.
Wittenburg Gate has some advice for starting a God blog.
Religious Lefties presents a "what-if" scenario for the future of Christians and politics.
Tom Carter wrote an excellent piece about remembering the Holocaust. IMHO, the world may be remembering it, it hasn't learned from it. Witness Rwanda and Sudan. No More Turning Left seems to agree. Let's hope some day there'll be no more turning away.
My friend Emily has an interesting idea for a more Godly Valentine's Day.
Ever wonder where the smiley came from? Wonder no more. 
William Safire gives us some advice on how to read a newspaper or magazine column. It could easily be applied to blogs as well.
This site may make you blind. You have been warned.
Fr. Sibley is right. This is freakin' hilarious!
I'm playing around with some 3-column template ideas. Take a look and let me know what you think.
Funky Dung
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Posted 30 Jan 2005 at 4:23 am ¶http://www.phatmass.org also has some Catholic rock and rap groups.
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Posted 30 Jan 2005 at 4:21 pm ¶I plan to go to Sweden this April. I think someone needs to inform the pastor about the need to be more careful with his language since the dual def'n of homosexuality causes dialogue on the subject to generate more heat than light, much of the time.
I posted my reasons for why I oppose the NAE's policies here. There is plenty of scientific evidence that homosexuality is both chosen and not chosen. There is not cultural evidence that people of the NT and OT were aware that one could have a not-chosen homosexual orientation that is very hard to change.
We need to get these facts out in the open, so people don't misinterpret the Bible and harm the public witness of Xty.
dlw
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Posted 30 Jan 2005 at 8:03 pm ¶yay for three columns.
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Posted 30 Jan 2005 at 8:16 pm ¶The point is not whether or not there are biology causes for homosexuality in some cases. It's whether it's right for a Christian to engage in homosexual behavior. You might be interested to read the blog of David Morrison, Sed Contra. He wrote a book called "Beyond Gay". He's a faithful Catholic who struggles with same-sex attraction. He choses to not act on those attractions because he believes them to be against God's law.
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Posted 30 Jan 2005 at 9:16 pm ¶The 3-column layout is now on the main page (obviously). BTW, this means that the page is now skinnable. Those who know how can switch to one of the other two CSS skins. I've set the test page to use the second one by default. The third one isn't finished. I'm looking in to how to set up cookies so people can pick a skin and keep it as their personal default.
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Posted 30 Jan 2005 at 9:39 pm ¶I like the 3-column tan skin on the test page quite a bit there…
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Posted 31 Jan 2005 at 1:35 am ¶Thanks for the referral!
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Posted 31 Jan 2005 at 1:43 am ¶Well, I know I'm about to invite abuse upon my head for saying so but… the 3 column format renders badly with my IE 6.0 at work.
Cheers!
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Posted 31 Jan 2005 at 2:58 pm ¶however on Netscape 7.0 (Mozilla/5.0–X11 Sun OS sun4u) on the Suns it renders fine.
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Posted 31 Jan 2005 at 7:05 pm ¶I'll certainly look into fixing it. I've had this problem before. IE sucks royally.
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Posted 31 Jan 2005 at 7:33 pm ¶I just took a look and the third column seems to want to hide behind the second. Is that the problem you see?
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Posted 31 Jan 2005 at 7:35 pm ¶Yup in IE
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