Mark Shea, sending a lengthy update during his visit to Sydney, remarked off-hand that “The future looks very bright for the Church in Sydney” from his experience at a Theology on Tap with hundreds of orthodox young Aussie Catholics. This is good news, given some of the more negative signs we’ve seen from down under.… Continue reading Why I Love Arlington (and Her Bishop)
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Getting to the Point
As readers of this blog know, I’m paid by the word. Or at least, it would seem like it. I have a terrible tendency of saying in many words what could be said in a lot fewer. Which is to say, I’m very verbose and repetitive, generally unintentionally, but that it’s… Well, you get the… Continue reading Getting to the Point
Happy Candlemas, etc.!
Catholic Hour has a good post about this day in history from a liturgical, pop cultural, and personal perspective (it’s Candlemas, a.k.a., the Feast of the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple, and a lot of other important milestones).
Listening to the Church Fathers
Yesterday, I shared part of an ongoing debate I’ve been having with Brian, a Creedal Protestant ex-Catholic who runs a blog dedicated to fighting against theological novelties in the field of eschatology. He fights for traditional, Creedal Christianity, the faith of the Church Fathers (as he understands it) against those who are completely fine with… Continue reading Listening to the Church Fathers
Proving Too Much, Part II
I came across one of David Green’s opponents — a friendly seeming young guy named Brian — defending the notion of historic Christianity against innovations like hyper-Preterism. I asked him, more or less, what I posed in yesterday’s post: how can you reject theological novelties like hyper-Preterism on the basis that they are novelties, without… Continue reading Proving Too Much, Part II
Proving Too Much
David Green is, to the best of my understanding, a Hyper-Preterist, someone who believes that all of the Biblical prophesies were fulfilled by 70 A.D. with the destruction of the Temple. This includes, strangely enough, the resurrection of the body. “Futurists,” reasonably enough, point to 2 Timothy 2:16-18, but the Green’s response is that this… Continue reading Proving Too Much
Catholic Truth and Music
Jen at Conversion Diary has a great blog post on the interplay between Catholic Truth and beautiful music, and about how music can help create a religious experience. The post is worth the read if only for the incredibly personal testimony by Pope Benedict about a religious experience he had a Bach concert. I remember… Continue reading Catholic Truth and Music
Last Year of Cdl. Mahony?
Apparently, Cardinal Mahony (who turns 74 next month) is going to have a coadjutorbishop, and has announced that this will be his “final full year” as Archbishop of Los Angeles. Whispers in the Loggia has the scoop (unsurprisingly), although American Papist has really been on the ball with this one. For those of you unfamiliar,… Continue reading Last Year of Cdl. Mahony?
The Best Football Bible Verses
I mentioned the controversy surrounding Tim Tebow’s upcoming Super Bowl ad earlier today. What I totally forgot to mention is that this is the same player who have Bible verses on his eye black. To keep the sun out of their eyes, lots of athletes put eye black underneath them (since it’s black, it absorbs… Continue reading The Best Football Bible Verses
The Tebow Message: Choose Life
The controversy over the upcoming Tim Tebow Super Bowl ad has been incredible. I. The AdThe exact content of the ad is still secret, but pretty widely understood to be the story of Tim Tebow’s own birth in 1987, probably told by his mother, Pam. Fox explains: When [Pam] Tebow suffered from a dangerous infection… Continue reading The Tebow Message: Choose Life