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- In Search of Catholic "To Kill a Mockingbird" (4)
Nathan Hutchinson: "Great suggestions, everybody! Thanks a lot. I am especially intrigued by Scott Hahn's "Rome Sweet Home" and the fiction of Flannery O'Connor, neither…"
http://wonderingzygoteemeritus.blogspot.com/: "It's great that your wife's Quebecqoise. My wife and I had our miel de lune in la ville de Quebec and visited Ile-aux-Coudre up the river. As far as…"
Funky Dung: "The fiction and non-fiction of G.K. Chesterton might be a good start if she liked C.S. Lewis.…"
Emily: "Are you seeking nonfiction or fiction books? I can think of a whole raft of nonfiction books on Catholic theology that might be suitable, depending…"
- Sacrifice and the "Dark Knight" (2)
Ales Rarus
A Rare Bird, A Strange Duck, One Funky Blog
random thought of the moment:
The mounting burden of taxation not only undermines individual incentives to increased work and earnings, but in a score of ways discourages capital accumulation and distorts, unbalances, and shrinks production. Total real wealth and income is made smaller than it otherwise would be. On net balance there is more poverty rather than less.
— Henry Hazlitt, The Conquest of Poverty [1973]
holy orders
Happy [Belated] Father's Day!
I know this
is a few days late, but this meditation has been brewing all weekend through my
busy, hectic workdays and my dear husband's slow ones. But this is not for him – he already got the
Star Wars trilogy for Father's Day and one custom card complete with a
hand-drawn Darth Vader from our six-year-old.
No, this is
for […]
Ipsane Res Loquitur?
My atheist buddy Peter (who long-time readers might remember as Theomorph) has provided a lot of food for thought recently. I'd like to know what my theist readers think of his ruminations.
An Exchange on Gay Christians (Part II)
Thisentryis part 2 of 5 in the series An Exchange on Gay Christians Read Part I of "An Exchange on Gay Christians" Read Annie's response to Part I. It's much the kind of response I was hoping for. Good. The question is whether demanding celibacy of someone not called to […]
Bsp. Wuerl Goes to Washington
Well, apparently the rumors were true this time. I guess you can't refuse promotion forever.
"Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Bishop Donald W. Wuerl to succeed Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick […]
A Case for Female Priests?
"Greet Andronicus and Junia, my relatives and my fellow prisoners; they are prominent among the apostles and they were in Christ before me." - Romans 16:7
Were there female apostles? Were all apostoloi also prebyteroi and/or episcopoi? Were there once female episcopoi/presbyteroi in the Church?
