Religion
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Sunday Night Journal — May 8, 2011 I was out of town this weekend and didn't get back in time to do any writing, so I am revisiting a couple of old SNJs which had not yet been moved from my original site to this one. I was thinking about Perelandra the other day after reading…
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I'm curious as to what others think about it. Although I was (am) a huge admirer and in a more-than-formal sense a follower of the late Pope, and think "Pope Saint John Paul II the Great" is a justifiable title, I'm still a little bothered by the speed of these proceedings. For that matter I…
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Sunday Night Journal — April 24, 2011: Easter Sunday I’ve had what can best be described as a very serene Triduum. And I am contributing further to that serenity by allowing myself a day of something more akin to leisure than is generally the case for me on Sunday. Rather than writing something new for…
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I sort of wanted to post something about Holy Saturday, but haven't had time, so I'll link to this, from Sally Thomas, instead. The thought I had, that I wanted to elaborate on, but which, now that I think about it, perhaps needs no elaboration, is this: in a sense most of our lives, at least…
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Sunday Night Journal — April 17, 2011 I spend a lot of time in the car every day, well over an hour, with a 40-45 minute commute each way. When I give up music for Lent, I usually try to maintain complete silence during those drives, but after a couple of weeks I begin to…
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Sunday Night Journal – April 10, 2011 Not too long ago I heard someone say that the greatest problem facing the country is the intrusion of religion into politics. He was quoting Jimmy Carter, who is generally wrong about both those things, and I thought it was pretty far off the mark to say that…
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This is just sort of sad: a "secular," i.e. atheist, bible.
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Red Cardigan (Erin Manning) has an interesting post about the implementation, coming in Advent of this year, of the new liturgical translations: Liturgy Wars: the coming storm. I reworded the title as a question, because I'm not at all sure there is going to be a storm in my parish, and perhaps not very much of…
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Writing about Fr. Samir's book on Islam sent me back to Belloc's The Great Heresies for another look at his view of Islam, in the chapter called "The Great and Enduring Heresy of Mohammed." I have to say right off that I don't think "heresy" is a good description for Islam, which seems to me a…
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Sunday Night Journal — March 27, 2011 If you want a single book that will serve as both an introduction to Islam and a careful consideration of its relationship, past and present, to Christianity, I doubt you could do better than this one. The author is an Arab Christian with many years of direct experience…
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