thoughts in and out of season
Separation of church and state. Freedom of thought. Legal divorce. Democracy. Is Roman Catholicism incompatible with the USA?
Not a silly question. In the 1930’s, the Pope endorsed heirarchy as the best form of government. I suspect he meant fascism.
I say Catholicism and the USA are barely compatible, if at all. (not to say … More ...
As a RCIA team leader, I am looking for some comments as to how to address the following questions which came up last night. I answered them last night, and all I got was some strange looks, so I’m looking for some other ways to address them.
Why is the Catholic Church so out of … More ...
I’m back from a couple of weeks away, and mostly recovered from a mild but annoying virus, so I’ll be posting once again. To get things started, here are some comments I posted on Dawn Eden’s weblog on why I think there’s a problem with contraception.
As I see it now (my view hasn’t always … More ...
Hello. I am very new here and wanted to post something on the thread about the Left’s self-definition. However, being a dotty Aristasian blonde, I can’t work out how it works. Instead here is something I wrote to a friend on the question of what we might mean these days by the terms “right and … More ...
Should Paleo Conservatives attempt to take over the Republican Party and turn it into an American Conservative Party?
In the real world of politics would this be possible?
See [url=http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/printpage/0,5942,11717092,00.html]here[/url].
So now, Australia joins [url=http://web.archive.org/web/20020701203539/http://report.ca/archive/report/20011105/p16i011105f.html]Canada[/url] in [url=http://www.theambler.com/dec16-31_02.htm#svend]punishing Christian critics of Islam[/url]…
Archbishop Phillip Hannan, former Archbishop of the New Orleans Archdiocese, roughly about 2 million people and 1.5 million Catholics made an important statement. He is very active despite his age; he was a frontline Chaplin in Europe during WWII.
He said the death penalty was justified in certain cases such as terrorism. I don’t think … More ...
For a variety of reasons I will not be posting much if at all until the new year. So Merry Christmas to all, and I’ll be back in January!
In the ’60s we had the “television generation,” the first generation to grow up watching TV. Today we have the “Internet generation.” The change in ways of finding out about the world ought to mean something, even though the effects are diffuse and so hard to interpret. Still, other people have theories on the subject, … More ...
AN APPEAL TO THE FREE NATIONS
Chorus
YAA KHELAAWAAT’E GOOR’E
oh great powerful nations
MELCH’E[1] GAABAAR’E[2].
mighty[2] kings[1].
HELOON ARRATAN[3] QAATAAN
give us -our land-[3]
MARRMAAKH’LA AATAAN[33].
and we shall raise -our flag-[33]
SHOOQOON QAAT OOMPTAAN[4] KHAAYAA
let -our nation-[4] live
KHAYOOTAA BAAYAA
it wants to live
OOMPTAAN KHAYOOTA BAAYAA
our nation wants to live.… More ...