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Rhythm Nation

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Dawn Eden, of the Dawn Patrol describes herself as "a nondenominational, small-'e' evangelical Protestant" who takes essentially "a sola scriptura approach to moral issues". She believes "that the Bible is the inerrant word of God". Why do I mention these things. I want to grab the attention of evangelical and fundamentalist readers.

Dawn has written an interesting piece about Christians and contraception. There's a lot of disagreement among Christians about the appropriateness of contraception, or lack thereof. I'd like my Protestant readers to read another Protestant's support of Catholic reproductive teachings and comment.

Hungry Hungry Augustine…of Hippo

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OK, so the title is cheesy. Sue me. Anyhow, the remains of St. Augustine, my patron,
were taken to Rome recently and Zenit published a few articles about the occasion.

Pope
Receives Relics of St. Augustine
John
Paul II’s Prayer to St. Augustine
Augustine
Faced an Emptiness, Says Cardinal Ratzinger

“O Lord my God, I believe in you, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Insofar as I can, insofar as you have given me the power, I have sought you. I became weary and I labored. O Lord my God, my sole hope, help me to believe and never to cease seeking you. Grant that I may always and ardently seek out your countenance. Give me the strength to seek you, for you help me to find you and you have more and more given me the hope of finding you. Here I am before you with my firmness and my infirmity. Preserve the first and heal the second. Here I am before you with my strength and my ignorance. Where you have opened the door to me, welcome me at the entrance; where you have closed the door to me, open to my cry; enable me to remember you, to understand you, and to love you. Amen.” – Saint Augustine

Anglican-Rite Catholics

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Dappled
Things has a great blurb and some links regarding the promotion of
an option
for the use of an Anglican (slightly modified, I think) Rite for Roman
Catholic
Churches. This had come up in a previous post of Ales
Rarus, and I’m all for increasing the breadth and depth of the
liturgical life
of the Church, so enjoy! And pass it on! I’d like to help Fr. Jim and
his quest
to keep reminding the bishops about this option, and getting the word
out.

Delayed Reaction

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This morning someone commented on an entry I posted July 31.

“Dude, you were raised lutheran, you were an agnostic and now you think you’re like, what, the pope’s right hand man? Take it from this cradle catholic and quit judging people. Don’t think you can just crash the party and start playing the records that you want. I was an altar girl when I was in school and now they’re saying that women have to know their place? Excuse me, but I don’t have to agree to that.

You so funny. Ooh, heresy! Let’s burn ’em at the stake! Sorry, dude, but we left the inquisition behind. Why don’t you warm up with a little social justice work instead?”

– Deb

What was I writing about that could rile Deb so?

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