I hope everyone’s having a wonderful Christmas, getting plenty of family time in, and all that. If you find yourself on the computer today, I’ve got a few suggestions: Pope Benedict’s Christmas Homily These homilies are always good. Here’s the full thing, and here’s a taste: The first thing we are told about the shepherds… Continue reading Merry Christmas!
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Some Christmas Eve Humor
Gentleman Farmer at Glib & Superficial posted a terribly funny post on Santa by denomination: Catholic Santa brings toys to all the little girls and boys who wrote letters to Mrs. Claus, because her appeals to Santa are particularly efficacious. You never know to whom Anglican Santa will bring toys, because he suffers from multiple… Continue reading Some Christmas Eve Humor
The Healthcare Debacle Comes Home for Christmas
We can expect that today, along strict party lines (with Lieberman and Sanders voting as they caucus) the Democratic Party will pass a pretty shameful health bill. It’s shameful for a number of reasons, but here are a few. They’re more or less in their order of importance: First, it pays for abortions. Turns out… Continue reading The Healthcare Debacle Comes Home for Christmas
Simply Incredible!
A relatively short video (subtitled) on a couple of Eucharistic videos, with descriptions of the expert testimony. It’s just stunning. h/t Fr. Gregory at Subimonk.
The Unanimous Consent of the Fathers
I mentioned earlier that I’ve been a bit under-impressed with Keith Mathison’s The Shape of Sola Scriptura, and that he doesn’t seem to have a good grip on the topic he’s written a book on. The book attempts to take the creedal Protestant sola Scriptura view, and show its alleged superiority to both the Evangelical… Continue reading The Unanimous Consent of the Fathers
Viva Il Papa! Deo Gratia!
Wonderful news! Pope John Paul II is now Venerable Pope John Paul II, and Pope Pius XII is now Venerable Pope Pius XII. Thanks be to God! And my finals are now over. Thanks be to God! And my girlfriend is now officially Catholic. Thanks be to God!
Learning from the Irish Sex Scandal
The Irish, if you’re not aware, are going through a sex abuse scandal similar to what we faced in the US, only compounded by the fact that these abuses often occurred at boarding schools with plenty of other problems (including physical abuse). All of this was sort of dumped on a relatively unsuspecting Irish public… Continue reading Learning from the Irish Sex Scandal
A Good One-Sentence Kicker
Chris commented on my Thursday post. The comment’s good, but the kicker’s great: “Is it logical to say that because heretics questioned a doctrine, the doctrine itself was therefore ill-defined?” That sentence, had I thought of it earlier, would have been great. It explains the reason that the Catholic Church doesn’t require “universal and continuous… Continue reading A Good One-Sentence Kicker
St. Clement, Sola Scriptura, and Mary
After a post I wrote about sola Scriptura, John Armstrong suggested that I read The Shape of Sola Scriptura by Keith Mathison. The book is written by a creedal Protestant – that is, he believes in sola Scriptura, but believes that any interpretation of the Bible which falls outside of the historic Creeds is wrong.… Continue reading St. Clement, Sola Scriptura, and Mary
Answering the Specific with the General
I’m wondering how many times I’m going to make the comments section of iMonk’s post on Catholic radio an integral part of my posts, but hopefully two isn’t too many. The reason I’m posting from the now-closed comments section is that I’ve observed a trend lately which I think needs exploring, and I think this… Continue reading Answering the Specific with the General