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https://oevenezolano.org/2024/08/1dxe52jzz Fr. Greg posted the following quote from Tony Campolo in response to my web post yesterday. It was said on a college campus when he gave a talk there: “I have three things I’d like to say today. First, while you were sleeping last night, 30,000 kids died of starvation or diseases related to malnutrition. […]
https://www.completerehabsolutions.com/blog/5t6atunwi From Fox News: An ABC pilot called “Good Christian Bitches” has religious and women’s groups up in arms over what they describe as an extremely offensive and distasteful show title. The dramedy, based on Kim Gatlin’s novel of the same name, will be brought to life by famed “Sex and the City” and “90210” executive […]
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https://sugandhmalhotra.com/2024/08/07/39hgvkk3 Today Pakistan buries murdered Christian government minister Shahbaz Bhatti. The BBC covers it this way: The funeral is being held amid tight security in Pakistan of murdered minorities minister Shahbaz Bhatti. Mr Bhatti, a Christian, was shot dead on Wednesday by the Taliban after urging reform to blasphemy laws. Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani led […]
Father Orthoduck finds it amazing how many people believe the above trite statement. They come in two varieties. One variety is the ever so naive, and usually slightly kooky, person who talks on about crystals, pyramids, and convergence. We all have friends like that. They are amusing to listen to, and we learned many years […]
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https://mandikaye.com/blog/v676yehuog The following quote comes from the UK’s Daily Mail, online edition: … The official newspaper of the Holy See has declared it is time to undo four centuries of church disapproval of traditional representations of Mary as an earthy, fleshy mother doting on her newborn son. … The latest edition of L’Osservatore Romano ran two […]
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e As you may remember, about three to four years ago there came out the news that scientists had found a gene that impulses you towards “religious” experiences. This followed an earlier story that scientists had found an area of the brain that responds strongly when one is having a “religious” experience. The press had […]
The video below will only be of interest, really, to those who are in the OCA or to those who have heard some inaccurate rumors lately about Metropolitan Jonah. This video will help to correct those rumors. His Beatitude, Metropolitan JONAH Addresses the Faithful of the Archdiocese of Washington from Archdiocese of Washington on Vimeo.
We have all had the experience of reading something in the newspapers and commenting to ourselves that if this were written by Hollywood, we would call this a far-out plot. But, this is a real story from the great State of Arizona, and it appears hard to believe, but, yes, it really happened: An Arizona […]
Of old, First Ladies often undertook “tasks” that were, uhm, somewhat less than major policy events. For instance, President Lyndon Johnson’s wife (Lady Bird) took on the beautification of America by pushing for the removal of billboards from the side of interstates and many other roads. For those of you old enough, you may remember […]
I had the opportunity of hearing Father Thomas Hopko speak. He quoted a young seminary student, who is now Metropolitan Jonah of the OCA, who he said wrote a most felicitous phrase in one of his papers. I doubt I can fully quote it correctly, but he said that the phrase was that the primordial […]
