Whosoever will be saved, before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholic Faith.
Which Faith except everyone do keep whole and undefiled, without doubt he shall perish everlastingly.
And the Catholic Faith is this,
that we worship one God in Trinity and Trinity in Unity.
Neither confounding the Persons,
nor dividing the Substance.
For there is one Person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Ghost.
But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Ghost is all One, the Glory Equal, the Majesty Co-Eternal. Such as the Father is, such is the Son, and such is the Holy Ghost.
The Father Uncreate, the Son Uncreate, and the Holy Ghost Uncreate.
The Father Incomprehensible, the Son Incomprehensible, and the Holy Ghost Incomprehensible.
The Father Eternal, the Son Eternal, and the Holy Ghost Eternal and yet they are not Three Eternals but One Eternal. As also there are not Three Uncreated, nor Three Incomprehensibles, but One Uncreated, and One Uncomprehensible. So likewise the Father is Almighty, the Son Almighty, and the Holy Ghost Almighty. And yet they are not Three Almighties but One Almighty.
So the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Ghost is God. And yet they are not Three Gods, but One God.
So likewise the Father is Lord, the Son Lord, and the Holy Ghost Lord. And yet not Three Lords but One Lord. For, like as we are compelled by the Christian verity to acknowledge every Person by Himself to be God and Lord, so are we forbidden by the Catholic Religion to say, there be Three Gods or Three Lords. The Father is made of none, neither created, nor begotten. The Son is of the Father alone; not made, nor created, but begotten. The Holy Ghost is of the Father, and of the Son neither made, nor created, nor begotten, but proceeding.
So there is One Father, not Three Fathers; one Son, not Three Sons; One Holy Ghost, not Three Holy Ghosts. And in this Trinity none is afore or after Other, None is greater or less than Another, but the whole Three Persons are Co-eternal together, and Co-equal. So that in all things, as is aforesaid, the Unity is Trinity, and the Trinity is Unity is to be worshipped. He therefore that will be saved, must thus think of the Trinity.
Furthermore, it is necessary to everlasting Salvation, that he also believe rightly the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ. For the right Faith is, that we believe and confess, that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God and Man.
God, of the substance of the Father, begotten before the worlds; and Man, of the substance of His mother, born into the world. Perfect God and Perfect Man, of a reasonable Soul and human Flesh subsisting. Equal to the Father as touching His Godhead, and inferior to the Father as touching His Manhood. Who, although He be God and Man, yet He is not two, but One Christ. One, not by conversion of the Godhead into Flesh, but by taking of the Manhood into God. One altogether, not by confusion of substance, but by Unity of Person. For as the reasonable soul and flesh is one Man, so God and Man is one Christ. Who suffered for our salvation, descended into Hell, rose again the third day from the dead. He ascended into Heaven, He sitteth on the right hand of the Father, God Almighty, from whence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. At whose coming all men shall rise again with their bodies, and shall give account for their own works. And they that have done good shall go into life everlasting, and they that have done evil into everlasting fire. This is the Catholic Faith, which except a man believe faithfully and firmly, he cannot be saved.
Tuesday, 2 December 2008
Sunday, 30 November 2008
Atheism, not religion, is the real force behind the mass murders of history
from http://www.karamazov.co.uk/atheism_religion.htm
The problem with this critique is that it exaggerates the crimes attributed to religion, while ignoring the greater crimes of secular fanaticism. The best example of religious persecution in America is the Salem witch trials. How many people were killed in those trials?
Thousands? Hundreds? Actually, fewer than 25. Yet the event still haunts the liberal imagination.
It is strange to witness the passion with which some secular figures rail against the misdeeds of the Crusaders and Inquisitors more than 500 years ago. The number of people sentenced to death by the Spanish Inquisition — which was active over a period of 350 years — is estimated at 5,000.
This figure is tragic, and of course population levels were much lower at the time. But even so, it is minuscule compared with the death tolls produced by the atheist despotisms of the 20th century. In the name of creating their version of a religion-free utopia, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Zedong produced the kind of mass slaughter that no Inquisitor could possibly match. Collectively these atheist tyrants murdered more than 100 million people.
Monday, 20 October 2008
This Christianity stuff better be true!
I just finished reading a post at the Conversion Diary. Jennifer and her husband got married 5 years ago. She recounts the story here - http://www.conversiondiary.com/2008/10/you-first.html
quoted from the Conversion Diary blog.
http://www.conversiondiary.com/2008/10/you-first.html
quoted from the Conversion Diary blog.
http://www.conversiondiary.com/2008/10/you-first.html
Monday, 29 September 2008
O Jesus, lover of the young,
O Jesus, lover of the young,
the dearest Friend I have,
in all confidence I open my heart to You
to beg Your light and assistance
in the important task of planning my future.
Give me the light of Your grace,
that I may decide wisely concerning the person
who is to be my partner through life.
Dearest Jesus, send me such a one whom in Your Divine wisdom
You judge best suited to be united with me in marriage.
May her character reflect some of the traits of Your own Sacred Heart.
May she be upright, loyal, pure, sincere and noble,
so that with united efforts
and with pure and unselfish love
we both may strive to perfect ourselves in soul and body,
as well as the children it may please You to entrust to our care.
Bless our friendship before marriage,
that sin may have no part in it.
May our mutual love bind us so closely,
that our future home may ever be most like Your own at Nazareth.
O Mary Immaculate,
sweet Mother of the young,
to your special care I entrust the decision I am to make
as to my future wife.
You are my guiding Star!
Direct me to the person with whom I can best cooperate in doing God's Holy Will,
with whom I can live in peace,
love and harmony in this life,
and attain to eternal joys in the next.
Amen.
the dearest Friend I have,
in all confidence I open my heart to You
to beg Your light and assistance
in the important task of planning my future.
Give me the light of Your grace,
that I may decide wisely concerning the person
who is to be my partner through life.
Dearest Jesus, send me such a one whom in Your Divine wisdom
You judge best suited to be united with me in marriage.
May her character reflect some of the traits of Your own Sacred Heart.
May she be upright, loyal, pure, sincere and noble,
so that with united efforts
and with pure and unselfish love
we both may strive to perfect ourselves in soul and body,
as well as the children it may please You to entrust to our care.
Bless our friendship before marriage,
that sin may have no part in it.
May our mutual love bind us so closely,
that our future home may ever be most like Your own at Nazareth.
O Mary Immaculate,
sweet Mother of the young,
to your special care I entrust the decision I am to make
as to my future wife.
You are my guiding Star!
Direct me to the person with whom I can best cooperate in doing God's Holy Will,
with whom I can live in peace,
love and harmony in this life,
and attain to eternal joys in the next.
Amen.
Friday, 5 September 2008
A Distance from Beauty
From some comments on the Conversion Diary site by someone named sibyl. Commenting about what she would take away from her christianity if she left it...
"What I'd take away from my desertion? That sinking horrible feeling that cowardice and fear always leaves with me. A knowledge that I'd departed from reality. A sense of distance from the world and from beauty."
Wow. A sense of distance from the world and from beauty. Wow.
Conversion Diary - A lovely little site
"How we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of the other" Ray Bradbuy, Something Wicked this way comes.
We mould each other, I my friends and they me. Which is why I want friends that are good. That I can look up to and learn from and be motivated to be more like.
Possibly one such person writes the site www.conversiondiary.com
I was caught especially by the beauty of these lines, the bolding emphasis is mine.
"But then, a funny thing happened on the way to becoming a Christian: ever so slowly, I stopped being so irritated with the people around me. In fact, I started to feel love for them. As I wrote about here, I never intended for this to happen."
I love that she never intended to love, but she does. ( As an aside - I don't write that I love that she never intended to love, but it just happened, because it doesn't just happen, you must work at other things first. )
Wednesday, 3 September 2008
Snoring and Large Families?
"Being hospitalised for a respiratory infection before the age of two years, suffering from recurrent ear infections as a child, growing up in a large family and being exposed to a dog at home as a newborn were all independently related to snoring in later life. The authors speculate "These factors may enhance inflammatory processes and thereby alter upper airway anatomy early in life, causing an increased susceptibility for adult snoring".
Thursday, 28 August 2008
Limit Internet Browsing with firefox Leechblock
This progam allows you to limit your internet browsing to say 10 minutes per hour. Great stuff!
Thursday, 31 July 2008
4 RC Churches in Inner London
 Corpus Christi, Maiden Lane http://www.maidenlane.org.uk/index_files/Page345.htm | |
The West End Churches
- Our Lady of the Assumption and St Gregory (Warwick St W1F – Tube: Piccadilly Circus)
- Corpus Christi (Maiden Lane WC2E Tube: Covent Garden)
- Notre Dame de France (French Church, Leicester Place WC2H Tube: Leicester Square) www.notredamechurch.co.uk
- St Patrick's (Soho Square W1D Tube: Tottenham Court Road)www.stpatricksoho.org
Not bad - German advertisment about children and family
You drive us crazy,
You scream all night
You wet the bed
You start teething
and then you get the chicken pox.
First, you hate nursery school,
then school,
then, at the age of 15, us.
Yes, you drive us crazy -
with happiness.
Having you doesn't cost a thing.
Then things start getting expensive.
You need time and space.
You cost us the new shoes,
the bigger TV,
and the beach holiday.
You are no luxury -
you are priceless.
There are many good reasons not to have children,
And the best reason for it:you!
You can't speak,
but you explain the whole world to us.
You can't walk,
but you help us move forwards.
You learn so much every day,
And teach us all the more.
You show us that there was never a wrong time to have you.
Only a right one.
You have a mother and father -
but need the whole country for a happy childhood.
You are not alone: you are our most important charge.
You turn two people into a family,
the tiniest flat into an adventure playground,
and pasta with tomato sauce into a banquet fit for a king.
We need more people like you,
Because without you the present isn't fun any more.
And the future is already gone.
You scream all night
You wet the bed
You start teething
and then you get the chicken pox.
First, you hate nursery school,
then school,
then, at the age of 15, us.
Yes, you drive us crazy -
with happiness.
Having you doesn't cost a thing.
Then things start getting expensive.
You need time and space.
You cost us the new shoes,
the bigger TV,
and the beach holiday.
You are no luxury -
you are priceless.
There are many good reasons not to have children,
And the best reason for it:you!
You can't speak,
but you explain the whole world to us.
You can't walk,
but you help us move forwards.
You learn so much every day,
And teach us all the more.
You show us that there was never a wrong time to have you.
Only a right one.
You have a mother and father -
but need the whole country for a happy childhood.
You are not alone: you are our most important charge.
You turn two people into a family,
the tiniest flat into an adventure playground,
and pasta with tomato sauce into a banquet fit for a king.
We need more people like you,
Because without you the present isn't fun any more.
And the future is already gone.
Crime Down During WYD Sydney
July 23 2008 > Crime down during WYD: NSW Minister
Crime down during WYD: NSW Minister
New South Wales Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione says that Sydney's crime rate during the World Youth Day week was the lowest it has been in a long time.
Zenit reports Mr Scipione attributed the drop to the presence of the
pilgrims and a general "sense of spirituality" in the air. He told Sky
News that extra police forces on hand seemed almost unnecessary, since the pilgrims were well-mannered and well-behaved.
Zenit also quotes Sydney Cardinal Pell as saying that the standing of the Catholic Church has been raised as a result of the success of World Youth Day. Cardinal Pell told reporters the public will be more ready to realise "that we Catholics have something to say on (life) subjects and will potentially give us a respectful hearing."
"This World Youth Day has demonstrated that the great majority of
Australians are quite open to what we have to say," he said.
The Art of Manliness
Are you looking for some understanding of manliness in this moisturizer for men and peter pan peopled world? Look no further than:
To Every Man a Manswer - http://gotmanswers.blogspot.com/
Run by a few christian men
and
The art of Manliness - http://artofmanliness.com/
"It isn't manly to sit on the couch and play video games all day, because men were created to find and love wives, start and provide for families, and cultivate the next generation of the faithful."
To be manly, at least as the Bible would describe it, is to accept your responsibilities as a man and live a life of God-honoring virtue. Selflessness, respectfulness, courage, charity, faithfulness, humility, repentance...traits like these are the stuff of which biblical men are made.
To Every Man a Manswer - http://gotmanswers.blogspot.com/
Run by a few christian men
and
The art of Manliness - http://artofmanliness.com/
"It isn't manly to sit on the couch and play video games all day, because men were created to find and love wives, start and provide for families, and cultivate the next generation of the faithful."
To be manly, at least as the Bible would describe it, is to accept your responsibilities as a man and live a life of God-honoring virtue. Selflessness, respectfulness, courage, charity, faithfulness, humility, repentance...traits like these are the stuff of which biblical men are made.
Wednesday, 30 July 2008
Fireproof, movie to watch out for
As recommended by Catholic Exchange
Directed by someone with the same surname as me...
Alex Kendrick, also written by Alex Kendrick and Stephen Kendrick
Directed by someone with the same surname as me...
Alex Kendrick, also written by Alex Kendrick and Stephen Kendrick
Monday, 28 July 2008
Max Thurian, a manufacturer of the Novus Ordo
One of the manufacturers of the Novus Ordo, Max Thurian, lamented in his dying days the loss of something of great value: "Be sure to pass on this message to your parish priest and to your bishop: 'The great problem of contemporary liturgical life (apathy towards worship, boredom, lack of vitality and participation) stems from the fact that the celebration has sometimes lost its character as mystery, which fosters the spirit of adoration.'
Max Thurian was a Protestant observer at Vatican II and expressed general satisfaction with its outcome. Thurian thought that with its adoption, the new mass would allow Catholics and Protestants to share at the same Eucharistic table. This, of course, did not happen. Thurian then became a Catholic priest.
Max Thurian was a Protestant observer at Vatican II and expressed general satisfaction with its outcome. Thurian thought that with its adoption, the new mass would allow Catholics and Protestants to share at the same Eucharistic table. This, of course, did not happen. Thurian then became a Catholic priest.
Wednesday, 23 July 2008
Crime down during WYD: NSW Minister
July 23 2008 > Crime down during WYD: NSW Minister
Crime down during WYD: NSW Minister
New South Wales Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione says that Sydney's crime rate during the World Youth Day week was the lowest it has been in a long time.
Zenit reports Mr Scipione attributed the drop to the presence of the pilgrims and a general "sense of spirituality" in the air. He told Sky News that extra police forces on hand seemed almost unnecessary, since the pilgrims were well-mannered and well-behaved.
Zenit also quotes Sydney Cardinal Pell as saying that the standing of the Catholic Church has been raised as a result of the success of World Youth Day.Cardinal Pell told reporters the public will be more ready to realise
"that we Catholics have something to say on (life) subjects and will potentially give us a respectful hearing."
"This World Youth Day has demonstrated that the great majority of Australians are quite open to what we have to say," he said.
Crime down during WYD: NSW Minister
New South Wales Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione says that Sydney's crime rate during the World Youth Day week was the lowest it has been in a long time.
Zenit reports Mr Scipione attributed the drop to the presence of the pilgrims and a general "sense of spirituality" in the air. He told Sky News that extra police forces on hand seemed almost unnecessary, since the pilgrims were well-mannered and well-behaved.
Zenit also quotes Sydney Cardinal Pell as saying that the standing of the Catholic Church has been raised as a result of the success of World Youth Day.Cardinal Pell told reporters the public will be more ready to realise
"that we Catholics have something to say on (life) subjects and will potentially give us a respectful hearing."
"This World Youth Day has demonstrated that the great majority of Australians are quite open to what we have to say," he said.
If Mr Scipione had done his research, he would have known that the local crime rates have fallen during every world youth day despite an influx of hundreds of thousands of the age-group most commonly involved in crime; and he would not have sent such huge superfluous numbers of police to the events. Some joined in the spirit but many just stood around looking glum, in spite of being constantly told for the first time in their careers, "Thank you, you're doing a great job."
Tuesday, 22 July 2008
My Maxims
Do things for others first
Take time to be with family and good friends
Plan each day
Work on a side project
Think about God, Pray
Take time to be with family and good friends
Plan each day
Work on a side project
Think about God, Pray
Monday, 21 July 2008
Thursday, 17 July 2008
Talks for Men
Catholic Men Today
Listen to talks online or download them using the above link: Direct links below:
[Via the Catholic Men's Fellowship]
Listen to talks online or download them using the above link: Direct links below:
- Summoning Men to Lay Down Their Lives,
- Ten Things Women Need to Know about Men
- The Christian Warrior: Defeat Satan with a Confident Heart
[Via the Catholic Men's Fellowship]
Sydney 2008, World Youth Day
The Pope was officially welcomed today as he made his way to Baragaroo ( the name is from the wife of the famous Australia Aborigine Bennelong ).
Sunday, 13 July 2008
What does the Pope think of Australia?
The need for God is no longer felt.
The Pontiff mentioned Australia at the top of a list of secularized countries during an impromptu question-and-answer session with priests of the Italian Diocese of Aosta in 2005.
He said a secularized society is one that is "tired of its own culture, a world that has arrived at a moment in which the need for God is no longer felt, and much less so of Christ, and in which, consequently, it seems that man might construct himself."
"In this climate of a rationalism shut-in on itself, which considers the model of the sciences as the only model of knowledge, everything else is subjective," Benedict XVI continued. "Naturally, Christian life also becomes a subjective option and, therefore, arbitrary. It is no longer the way of life."
"This happens especially in Australia," he added, "also in Europe, somewhat less so in the United States."
The Pope's comment about "rationalism which considers the model of the sciences as the only model of knowledge" ties in with what I have been reading recently. Peter Kreeft's Socrates Meets Descartes, discusses how Descartes wanted to bolster philosophic thought, advance it and remove disagreement. He so sought to do this by applying the scientific method, which had helped to make leaps and bounds in the material sciences to philosophy. More on this in my review when I finish the book.
Catholic Australia
The Central Statistical Office of the Church announced last week that Catholicism is the largest religion in Australia, with 27.56% of the total population belonging to the Church.
Nonetheless, the office noted that while the Catholic population grew by 125,260 between 2001 and 2006, it failed to grow in proportion to the country's total population.
A national survey conducted in May 2006 revealed that the total number of people at Mass on a typical weekend was 708,600, or about 14% of the census Catholic population. That low number was already down a bit from 2001's count of 15%.
[Quotes via Zenit]
Friday, 11 July 2008
Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine
Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine,
There’s always laughter and good red wine.
At least I’ve always found it so.
Benedicamus Domino!
--Hilaire Belloc
[via The Pious Solidarity of Church Ladies]
There’s always laughter and good red wine.
At least I’ve always found it so.
Benedicamus Domino!
--Hilaire Belloc
[via The Pious Solidarity of Church Ladies]
Another time, another Princess, another King
Three sure proofs that God loves us in one convenient photo: the Eucharist, the priesthood, and the existence of Grace Kelly.
[via The Shrine of the Holy Whapping]
Wednesday, 25 June 2008
May he rest in peace.
An acquaintance in Queensland, Australia passed away recently. Please keep him and his wife and kids in your prayers.
Eternal rest grant unto him O Lord, may perpetual light shine upon him, may he rest in peace. Amen
Monday, 23 June 2008
Religion is bad for humanity, right?
There have been a few books recently, and I’ve heard some opinion that religion is responsible for all wars, that religion is anti science, basically, that religion is bad for you.
What do you think? A few thoughts to ponder:
- Studies concerning people’s generosity in donating money to charities or giving time as volunteers show believers out-give and out-volunteer nonbelievers by 3 to 1.
- It was religion, and not secular humanists, who founded schools for the poor
- It was religion that gave us orphanages
- Again, religion that set up hospitals
- Religion which started soup kitchens
- Worked in hospices and countless other charities.
- Some of history’s greatest scientists -- Newton, Pasteur, Galileo, Lavoisier, Kepler, Copernicus, Faraday, Maxwell, Bernard, and Heisenberg --were all Christians
- Gregor Mendel -- the father of modern genetics -- was a Catholic priest.
"I've stopped being an alcoholic now that I've discovered atheism"
How often have you heard that?
In an interview with Zenit, Author Father Thomas Williams speaks about his new book that sets out to refute the recent books about supposed negative influences of religion, such as Dawkins' The God Delusion.
This from the interview when asked if religion had positive benefits. After explaining his personal knowledge of people turning from bad ways of life when finding religion,
from Zenit, New Book Debunks Atheists’ Claims,
In an interview with Zenit, Author Father Thomas Williams speaks about his new book that sets out to refute the recent books about supposed negative influences of religion, such as Dawkins' The God Delusion.
This from the interview when asked if religion had positive benefits. After explaining his personal knowledge of people turning from bad ways of life when finding religion,
"let’s turn the question around. How many people do you know that have overcome alcoholism or pornographic addictions, stopped cheating on their spouses, or become more concerned and dedicated parents because they discovered atheism? It simply doesn’t happen. Atheism offers no incentive to become better or less selfish."
from Zenit, New Book Debunks Atheists’ Claims,
Thursday, 19 June 2008
Mercy-killing death: women found guilty
from the SMH
Geesche Jacobsen
June 19, 2008 - 3:50PM
In a blow to the euthanasia movement, a jury has found one women guilty of the manslaughter and another an accessory to the manslaughter of Alzheimer's sufferer and former Qantas pilot Graeme Wylie.
...He had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in March 2003 and the case centered on his capacity at the time of his death to decide he wanted to commit suicide.
...The court also heard that Mr Wylie's will - in Justins' favour - was changed a week before his death. Under an old will she stood to gain half of his $2.4 million estate, with the rest to be divided between his daughters.
Geesche Jacobsen
June 19, 2008 - 3:50PM
In a blow to the euthanasia movement, a jury has found one women guilty of the manslaughter and another an accessory to the manslaughter of Alzheimer's sufferer and former Qantas pilot Graeme Wylie.
...He had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in March 2003 and the case centered on his capacity at the time of his death to decide he wanted to commit suicide.
...The court also heard that Mr Wylie's will - in Justins' favour - was changed a week before his death. Under an old will she stood to gain half of his $2.4 million estate, with the rest to be divided between his daughters.
Friday, 13 June 2008
Abortion Changes You - A site for those who are touched by abortion.
Whether the experience happened recently or years ago, this site is a refuge for those who wish to tell their story and begin the process of healing.
http://abortionchangesyou.com/
http://abortionchangesyou.com/
Wednesday, 11 June 2008
Woman Suffer Less Sleep Complaints When Happily Married
Marital happiness may lower the risk of sleep problems in Caucasian women, while marital strife may heighten the risk, according to a research abstract presented on Monday at SLEEP 2008, the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies (APSS).The study, authored
by Wendy M.
via http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/110664.php
by Wendy M.
via http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/110664.php
Wednesday, 4 June 2008
Bardot fined for anti-Islam remarks
Jun. 4, 2008, (CWNews.com)
A Paris court has fined Brigette Bardot €15,000 ($23,000) for instigating hatred for Muslims.
In December 2006, Info-Journal published a letter in which the one-time French film icon wrote of Muslims: "The entire population is destroying us, destroying our country, imposing its culture.” Judge Nicolas Bonnal said, “Her words clearly refer to the Muslim community and assume the character of a reaction.”
Bardot had been fined on two prior occasions, in 2001 and in 2004, for words inciting racial hatred.
from Catholic World News website. June 4
A Paris court has fined Brigette Bardot €15,000 ($23,000) for instigating hatred for Muslims.
In December 2006, Info-Journal published a letter in which the one-time French film icon wrote of Muslims: "The entire population is destroying us, destroying our country, imposing its culture.” Judge Nicolas Bonnal said, “Her words clearly refer to the Muslim community and assume the character of a reaction.”
Bardot had been fined on two prior occasions, in 2001 and in 2004, for words inciting racial hatred.
from Catholic World News website. June 4
Tuesday, 3 June 2008
Wednesday, 28 May 2008
UN sends condoms to starving people in Myanmar
Bangkok, May. 23, 2008 (CWNews.com) - In answer to the grave humanitarian crisis among cyclone victims in Myanmar, the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) is sending nearly 250,000 condoms.
"We don't want regular use of contraception disrupted," a spokesman for the UNFPA told reporters. The UN agency is also providing oral and injected contraceptives.
More than 2 million people in Myanmar face an urgent need for food, clothing, medication, and shelter.
via cwnews.com
Cardinal Mahony bars dissident Australian bishop
Los Angeles, May. 20, 2008 (CWNews.com) - Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles has barred a controversial Australian bishop from speaking in his California archdiocese.
In a May 9 letter to Bishop Geoffrey Robinson, a retired auxiliary of the Sydney, Australia archdiocese, Cardinal Mahony invoked the Code of Canon Law to explain that he had decided to "deny you permission to speak in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles."
Cardinal Mahony took action just as the Australian bishops' conference issued a public statement warning of "doctrinal difficulties" in Bishop Robinson's new book, Confronting Power and Sex in the Catholic Church. The Australian bishops noted problems with Bishop Robinson's treatment of "the nature of Tradition, the inspiration of the Holy Scripture, the
infallibility of the Councils and the Pope, the authority of the Creeds, the nature of the ministerial priesthood and central elements of the Church’s moral teaching."
Bishop Robinson, who is in the US on a speaking tour to promote his book, is due to speak in Los Angeles on June 12. He is also scheduled to visit Boston, Seattle, and San Diego during his US visit. Cardinal Mahony urged the Australian bishop to cancel those appearances.
Bishop Robinson is likely to continue his speaking tour, defying the ban by Cardinal Mahony and challenging prelates in the other cities where he is scheduled to appear.
The liberal activist group Voice of the Faithful (VOTF) has issued a statement denouncing Cardinal Mahony's ban and praising Bishop Robinson for "trying to help us heal from the abuses which he saw first-hand" in Australia as head of a committee responding to the sex-abuse scandal there.
The VOTF statement acknowledges that the Australian bishops have found that Bishop' Robinson's book calls into question "the authority of the Catholic Church to teach the truth definitively." But VOTF adds: "Those who read Bishop Robinson’s book carefully may question such conclusions."
In his own response to the cautionary statement issued by the Australian bishops' conference, Bishop Robinson complained that "the bishops appear to be saying that, in seeking to respond to abuse, we may investigate all other factors contributing to abuse, but we may not ask questions concerning ways in which teachings, laws, and attitudes concerning power and sex within the church may have contributed."
Because of that attitude, he said, he had "broken with" the episcopal conference.
via CWNEWS.COM
Monday, 19 May 2008
Californian Marriage Ruling May 16 2008
From Zenit.
The marriage defense act has been overturned by the supreme court, even though, in a vote in 2000 61% of California's voted to deine marriage as the union between a man and a woman. So much for democracy.
The marriage defense act has been overturned by the supreme court, even though, in a vote in 2000 61% of California's voted to deine marriage as the union between a man and a woman. So much for democracy.
Friday, 16 May 2008
Australian archbishop seeks recovery of sacred in liturgy
Canberra, May. 14, 2008 (CWNews.com) - An Australian archbishop has called for a greater sense of reverence in the liturgy, urging a frank appraisal of problems that have arisen since the Second Vatican Council.
Archbishop Mark Coleridge of Canberra issued a letter on the liturgy for Pentecost Sunday, as the Australian bishops began full implementation of the new General Instruction for the Roman Missal (GIRM).
As he laid out the changes required by the GIRM, Archbishop Coleridge commented that "the Church is moving into a new phase of the ongoing journey of liturgical renewal." That process is necessary, he said, in order to prune out undesirable elements that have become commonplace. He explained that since the reforms after Vatican II, "liturgical habits have taken hold, some of which have been beneficial, others detrimental to the celebration of the liturgy."
"Our worship generally has become very chatty, to the point where one of the challenges now is to allow silence to play its part in the liturgy," the archbishop said. He reported, too, that many of the faithful find "a loss of the sense of the sacred in the Mass-- a weakened sense of the presence of God and the deeper resonances of the liturgical words and actions that comes with silence."
Archbishop Coleridge said that special attention should be paid to translations of liturgical texts, noting that "the language of the liturgy was never everyday language." He added that the sense of reverence is undermined when celebrants use informal language and when they offer mundane greetings, such as beginning a liturgical ceremony by wishing the congregation a "Good morning." [The full text of the archbishop's letter is available on the web site of the Canberra archdiocese.]
Source: Zenit
Archbishop Mark Coleridge of Canberra issued a letter on the liturgy for Pentecost Sunday, as the Australian bishops began full implementation of the new General Instruction for the Roman Missal (GIRM).
As he laid out the changes required by the GIRM, Archbishop Coleridge commented that "the Church is moving into a new phase of the ongoing journey of liturgical renewal." That process is necessary, he said, in order to prune out undesirable elements that have become commonplace. He explained that since the reforms after Vatican II, "liturgical habits have taken hold, some of which have been beneficial, others detrimental to the celebration of the liturgy."
"Our worship generally has become very chatty, to the point where one of the challenges now is to allow silence to play its part in the liturgy," the archbishop said. He reported, too, that many of the faithful find "a loss of the sense of the sacred in the Mass-- a weakened sense of the presence of God and the deeper resonances of the liturgical words and actions that comes with silence."
Archbishop Coleridge said that special attention should be paid to translations of liturgical texts, noting that "the language of the liturgy was never everyday language." He added that the sense of reverence is undermined when celebrants use informal language and when they offer mundane greetings, such as beginning a liturgical ceremony by wishing the congregation a "Good morning." [The full text of the archbishop's letter is available on the web site of the Canberra archdiocese.]
Source: Zenit
Tuesday, 6 May 2008
Prayer of a Soldier in France
My shoulders ache beneath my pack
(Lie easier, Cross, upon His back).
I march with feet that burn and smart
(Tread, Holy Feet, upon my heart).
Men shout at me who may not speak
(They scourged Thy back and smote Thy cheek).
I may not lift a hand to clear
My eyes of salty drops that sear.
(Then shall my fickle soul forget
Thy Agony of Bloody Sweat?)
My rifle hand is stiff and numb
(From Thy pierced palm red rivers come).
Lord, Thou didst suffer more for me
Than all the hosts of land and sea.
So let me render back again
This millionth of Thy gift. Amen.
Joyce Kilmer
1918
( lifted from Ad Orientem )
(Lie easier, Cross, upon His back).
I march with feet that burn and smart
(Tread, Holy Feet, upon my heart).
Men shout at me who may not speak
(They scourged Thy back and smote Thy cheek).
I may not lift a hand to clear
My eyes of salty drops that sear.
(Then shall my fickle soul forget
Thy Agony of Bloody Sweat?)
My rifle hand is stiff and numb
(From Thy pierced palm red rivers come).
Lord, Thou didst suffer more for me
Than all the hosts of land and sea.
So let me render back again
This millionth of Thy gift. Amen.
Joyce Kilmer
1918
( lifted from Ad Orientem )
Tuesday, 22 April 2008
Do prayers work, part II of III - Still waiting
So it's 2:30pm. Has my prayer been answered?
I had a presentation to give today, and I was remarkably calm about it. I mean a tiny bit nervous, but I was going to give this talk about a month ago, and I felt very scared.
Talk went well. Met with another developer about my current project, and it is going as well as could be expected here, ie SNAFU, but I'm working on it.
Work is going well. Nothing else to report.
I had a presentation to give today, and I was remarkably calm about it. I mean a tiny bit nervous, but I was going to give this talk about a month ago, and I felt very scared.
Talk went well. Met with another developer about my current project, and it is going as well as could be expected here, ie SNAFU, but I'm working on it.
Work is going well. Nothing else to report.
Do prayers work?
So, as a man trying to be a good catholic, I believe Jesus, in the bible where he says "Ask anything in my name and you will receive it"
I have recently ( for the last few years, on and off ) been considering changing careers, working out what to do in life. I have been praying for it on and off. I decided to get a bit more serious, using a Novena. A novena is a prayer asking for something that you say for a given amount of times. eg usually you pray something for 9 days in a row, or 9 weeks in a row.
So I started 9 days ago. I have prayed the prayer every day. So today I get my answer.... right?
I am chronicling my day to see how it goes. Perhaps I am trying to see signs and signals where there are none. I look to see.
Wake up a little earlier than usual. Breakfast normal, start to walk to work.. Should I feel any different. I don't. Tired though. I get to the tube, will something happen to me? Will I decide that I hate the commute through busy London and just leave, like friends have done, like the guy in Office Space, like Douglas in Falling Down? I don't. I get off the tube, reading a newspaper. Will something in here tell me what to do? I notice a nice picture of a minor celebrity. Maybe I can draw her. I would like to draw and be artistic. Maybe that's my calling. To be a great artist. I decide to chronicle my day. Maybe I will be a great writer? I read Kreeft's work on Pascal on the tube.
I get to work. It starts normally. Will I be fired today? I have a presentation to give. My eyesight has been getting poor recently. Am I dying. Is that why I'm not excited about things to do in this life... is it nearing it's earthly completion?
So, it's 9:30 in the morning. A normal start to a normal London day. I'll report back later.
"I believe Lord, help thou my unbelief."
I have recently ( for the last few years, on and off ) been considering changing careers, working out what to do in life. I have been praying for it on and off. I decided to get a bit more serious, using a Novena. A novena is a prayer asking for something that you say for a given amount of times. eg usually you pray something for 9 days in a row, or 9 weeks in a row.
So I started 9 days ago. I have prayed the prayer every day. So today I get my answer.... right?
I am chronicling my day to see how it goes. Perhaps I am trying to see signs and signals where there are none. I look to see.
Wake up a little earlier than usual. Breakfast normal, start to walk to work.. Should I feel any different. I don't. Tired though. I get to the tube, will something happen to me? Will I decide that I hate the commute through busy London and just leave, like friends have done, like the guy in Office Space, like Douglas in Falling Down? I don't. I get off the tube, reading a newspaper. Will something in here tell me what to do? I notice a nice picture of a minor celebrity. Maybe I can draw her. I would like to draw and be artistic. Maybe that's my calling. To be a great artist. I decide to chronicle my day. Maybe I will be a great writer? I read Kreeft's work on Pascal on the tube.
I get to work. It starts normally. Will I be fired today? I have a presentation to give. My eyesight has been getting poor recently. Am I dying. Is that why I'm not excited about things to do in this life... is it nearing it's earthly completion?
So, it's 9:30 in the morning. A normal start to a normal London day. I'll report back later.
"I believe Lord, help thou my unbelief."
Friday, 11 April 2008
Prayer before Study by St Thomas Aquinas
O ineffable Creator,
Who, out of the treasure of Thy wisdom,
hast ordained three hierarchies of Angels,
and placed them in wonderful order above the heavens,
and hast most wisely distributed the parts of the world;
Thou, Who are called the true fountain of light and wisdom,
and the highest beginning,
vouchsafe to pour upon the darkness of my understanding,
in which I was born,
the double beam of Thy brightness,
removing from me all darkness of sin and ignorance.
Thou, Who makest eloquent the tongue of the dumb,
instruct my tongue,
and pour on my lips the grace of Thy blessing.
Give me quickness of understanding,
capacity of retaining,
subtlety of interpreting,
facility in learning,
and copious grace of speaking.
Guide my going in,
direct my going forward,
accomplish my going forth;
through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
Thursday, 3 April 2008
Where are the people?
from www.demographicwinter.com
Can demographic winter be countered by governments encouraging people to have more children?
Answer:
This is being tried in Western Europe and Russia. The Russian Federation pays families a bonus of 250,000 rubles (the equivalent of $9,200) for every child after the first – in a nation where the average monthly wage is only $330. It’s not working.
Couples decide to have children for all kinds of reasons – religious, emotional, cultural, etc. Money doesn’t seem to be one of them, although money concerns are sometimes cited as a reason for having fewer children.
Can demographic winter be countered by governments encouraging people to have more children?
Answer:
This is being tried in Western Europe and Russia. The Russian Federation pays families a bonus of 250,000 rubles (the equivalent of $9,200) for every child after the first – in a nation where the average monthly wage is only $330. It’s not working.
Couples decide to have children for all kinds of reasons – religious, emotional, cultural, etc. Money doesn’t seem to be one of them, although money concerns are sometimes cited as a reason for having fewer children.
Planned Parenthood, abortion provided sets $1billion profit
Planned Parenthood--
America's largest abortion business pulled in a $1.017 billion in income.
According to LifeNews.com, Planned Parenthood's web site boasted their achievement, saying it "highlights
our advancement in providing and protecting trusted health care services and medically accurate sexuality
education."
No doubt, the more than $300 million received from taxpayers helped bolster their profits and solidify their position as the number one abortion business in the world. ( from Grassfire.net )
America's largest abortion business pulled in a $1.017 billion in income.
According to LifeNews.com, Planned Parenthood's web site boasted their achievement, saying it "highlights
our advancement in providing and protecting trusted health care services and medically accurate sexuality
education."
No doubt, the more than $300 million received from taxpayers helped bolster their profits and solidify their position as the number one abortion business in the world. ( from Grassfire.net )
Wednesday, 2 April 2008
April 1 2008 > Muslims overtake Catholics in denomination stakes
April 1 2008 > Muslims overtake Catholics in denomination stakes
Muslims overtake Catholics in denomination stakes
Published: March 31, 2008
For the first time in history, Muslims now outnumber Catholics and are now the world's biggest single religious denomination, figures published by L'Osservatore Romano reveal.
Times Online reports that in an interview with the paper Monsignor Vittorio Formenti, compilier of the Annuario Pontificio, the Vatican yearbook, said "For the first time in history, we are no longer at the top: Muslims have overtaken us." He said that figures for 2006 showed that Catholics accounted for 17.4 per cent of the world population while Muslims accounted for 19.2 per cent.
Asked for an explanation Monsignor Formenti observed that "While Muslim families, as is well known, continue to make a lot of children, Christian ones on the contrary tend to have fewer and fewer". He said the figure for the Muslim global population was derived from data submitted to the United Nations by Muslim countries.
The Vatican puts the number of Catholics in the world at 1.13 billion people, while the figure for Muslims is estimated at around 1.3 billion.
However, Christians of all denominations still comprise 33 per cent of the world population.
"Latin America remains the stronghold for Catholicism, while the American continent as a whole has 49.8% of the world's total," Monsignor Formenti said.
Noting the decline in numbers of Catholic priests, Monsignor Formenti added that the number of Catholic priests was on the rebound, particularly in Asia, a Guardian report adds.
He described Africa as a grand resource for the Church, while Europe and North America were struggling. The number of nuns was undergoing a "drastic reduction".
As for the enrolment of seminarians, Guadalajara in Mexico had the largest number. France, the Netherlands and Belgium were bottom of the league, while Italy was seeing a "small, very small reprise".
The figures were released as both the Vatican and Muslim leaders sought to pursue a recently initiated Muslim-Catholic dialogue despite tensions over Pope Benedict XVI's high profile baptism at Easter of Magdi Allam, a converted Italian Muslim journalist of Egyptian origin.
Vatican spokesman, Fr Federico Lombardi, said the opinions of Mr Allam, an outspoken critic of Islam as inherently violent and repressive, were not in any way "the official expression of the positions of the Pope or the Holy See".
Rome has Europe's largest mosque, opened in 1995 and paid for by Muslim countries, mainly by Saudi Arabia, which at present bans Christian worship but is reported to be considering allowing the construction of a church on Saudi soil as part of negotiations for the establishment of diplomatic relations.
In a provocative short story entitled "The Last Christmas" (L'Ultimo Natale) the popular Italian writer Valerio Massimo Manfredi imagines a future in which Islam has become the dominant religion in Italy, with the Pope obliged to leave St Peter's and make way for an Imam.
SOURCE
Islam overtakes Catholicism as world's largest religion (Times Online, 31/3/08)
Muslims displace Catholics at the top (The Guardian, 31/3/08)
OTHER STORIES
Vatican: convert who slammed Islam doesn't express pope's views (International Herald Tribune, 31/3/08)
http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=6435
Muslims overtake Catholics in denomination stakes
Published: March 31, 2008
For the first time in history, Muslims now outnumber Catholics and are now the world's biggest single religious denomination, figures published by L'Osservatore Romano reveal.
Times Online reports that in an interview with the paper Monsignor Vittorio Formenti, compilier of the Annuario Pontificio, the Vatican yearbook, said "For the first time in history, we are no longer at the top: Muslims have overtaken us." He said that figures for 2006 showed that Catholics accounted for 17.4 per cent of the world population while Muslims accounted for 19.2 per cent.
Asked for an explanation Monsignor Formenti observed that "While Muslim families, as is well known, continue to make a lot of children, Christian ones on the contrary tend to have fewer and fewer". He said the figure for the Muslim global population was derived from data submitted to the United Nations by Muslim countries.
The Vatican puts the number of Catholics in the world at 1.13 billion people, while the figure for Muslims is estimated at around 1.3 billion.
However, Christians of all denominations still comprise 33 per cent of the world population.
"Latin America remains the stronghold for Catholicism, while the American continent as a whole has 49.8% of the world's total," Monsignor Formenti said.
Noting the decline in numbers of Catholic priests, Monsignor Formenti added that the number of Catholic priests was on the rebound, particularly in Asia, a Guardian report adds.
He described Africa as a grand resource for the Church, while Europe and North America were struggling. The number of nuns was undergoing a "drastic reduction".
As for the enrolment of seminarians, Guadalajara in Mexico had the largest number. France, the Netherlands and Belgium were bottom of the league, while Italy was seeing a "small, very small reprise".
The figures were released as both the Vatican and Muslim leaders sought to pursue a recently initiated Muslim-Catholic dialogue despite tensions over Pope Benedict XVI's high profile baptism at Easter of Magdi Allam, a converted Italian Muslim journalist of Egyptian origin.
Vatican spokesman, Fr Federico Lombardi, said the opinions of Mr Allam, an outspoken critic of Islam as inherently violent and repressive, were not in any way "the official expression of the positions of the Pope or the Holy See".
Rome has Europe's largest mosque, opened in 1995 and paid for by Muslim countries, mainly by Saudi Arabia, which at present bans Christian worship but is reported to be considering allowing the construction of a church on Saudi soil as part of negotiations for the establishment of diplomatic relations.
In a provocative short story entitled "The Last Christmas" (L'Ultimo Natale) the popular Italian writer Valerio Massimo Manfredi imagines a future in which Islam has become the dominant religion in Italy, with the Pope obliged to leave St Peter's and make way for an Imam.
SOURCE
Islam overtakes Catholicism as world's largest religion (Times Online, 31/3/08)
Muslims displace Catholics at the top (The Guardian, 31/3/08)
OTHER STORIES
Vatican: convert who slammed Islam doesn't express pope's views (International Herald Tribune, 31/3/08)
http://www.cathnews.com
Thursday, 20 March 2008
500 Words on a Holy (Maundy) Thursday in 2008, London
500 Words on a Holy (Maundy) Thursday in 2008.
It's all about the priests.
You walk in the church, it's quiet, it's like a funeral, something seems a bit out of place. You take a leaflet, you sit down. You kneel and pray. You are in Lewisham. You are participating at the service. Lovely latin hymns strike your ears. Maundy Thursday, so named from the latin Maundy meaning mandatum, and I'm not sure if it relates to
... the instruction given to the apostles to Do This In Memory of me. The institution of the Eucharist, and the command to re-present the sacrifice of the eucharist, the sacrifice of Christ on the cross.
...or...
if it relates to the instruction to wash one another's feet, and more generally to be of service to others.
In any case, we certainly have a washing of the feet ceremony in the church. Also on this day,
- the ringing of bells ceases,
- procession to the altar of repose and
- the stripping of the altars
It's a very moving ceremony. And I'm looking forward to it.
It's all about God and it's all about you, because the priests are your way to God.
So the easter break is upon us from work, and the easter services begin. I never really know what to do on Good Friday. I go to the service, usually at 3pm til 5pm, but I'm not sure what to do at the other times. It's possibly the saddest day of the year, liturgically speaking, so going out and doing something fun seems innappropriate, added to which, as a day of fast ( and penance? ) I wouldn't have much energy, nor be able to eat or drink, which is what most social customs resolve around. I guess I could
- watch The Passion of the Christ and other religious drama.
- Read a little from a religious book
- Tidy/Clean the house so that it is spruced up for Easter.
- Pray a rosary
There are mving and beautiful reproaches sung on Good Friday ...
O My people, what have I done unto thee, or wherein have I wearied thee? Answer Me.
Because I brought thee forth from the land of Egypt: thou hast prepared a Cross for thy Saviour
Because I led thee through the desert forty years, and fed thee with manna, and brought thee into a land exceeding good: thou hast prepared a Cross for thy Saviour.
What more could I have done unto thee that I have not done? I indeed did plant thee, O My vineyard, with exceeding fair fruit: and thou art become very bitter unto Me: for vinegar, mingled with gall, thou gavest Me when thirsty: and hast pierced with a spear the side of thy Saviour.
I did scourge Egypt with her first-born for thy sake: and thou hast scourged Me and delivered Me up.
I led thee forth out of Egypt, drowning Pharaoh in the Red Sea: and thou hast delivered Me up unto the chief priests
I did open the sea before thee: and thou hast opened My side with a spear.
I did feed thee with manna in the desert: and thou hast stricken Me with blows and scourges.
: I did give thee to drink the water of life from the Rock: and thou hast given Me to drink but gall and vinegar.
...
I did raise thee on high with great power: and thou hast hanged Me upon the gibbet of the Cross.
O My people, what have I done unto thee, or wherein have I wearied thee? Answer Me.
The service on Good friday is also actually quite a hopeful one ( which is nice, after realising what we have done in the reproaches ), the church in it's liturgy instructs us to regard the wood of the cross for veneration, upon whom hund the saviour and hope of the world.
Faithful Cross, above all other, one and only noble Tree: none in foliage, none in blossom, none in fruit thy peer may be. Sweetest wood, and sweetest iron, sweetest weight is hung on thee.
Pax Christi.
It's all about the priests.
You walk in the church, it's quiet, it's like a funeral, something seems a bit out of place. You take a leaflet, you sit down. You kneel and pray. You are in Lewisham. You are participating at the service. Lovely latin hymns strike your ears. Maundy Thursday, so named from the latin Maundy meaning mandatum, and I'm not sure if it relates to
... the instruction given to the apostles to Do This In Memory of me. The institution of the Eucharist, and the command to re-present the sacrifice of the eucharist, the sacrifice of Christ on the cross.
...or...
if it relates to the instruction to wash one another's feet, and more generally to be of service to others.
In any case, we certainly have a washing of the feet ceremony in the church. Also on this day,
- the ringing of bells ceases,
- procession to the altar of repose and
- the stripping of the altars
It's a very moving ceremony. And I'm looking forward to it.
It's all about God and it's all about you, because the priests are your way to God.
So the easter break is upon us from work, and the easter services begin. I never really know what to do on Good Friday. I go to the service, usually at 3pm til 5pm, but I'm not sure what to do at the other times. It's possibly the saddest day of the year, liturgically speaking, so going out and doing something fun seems innappropriate, added to which, as a day of fast ( and penance? ) I wouldn't have much energy, nor be able to eat or drink, which is what most social customs resolve around. I guess I could
- watch The Passion of the Christ and other religious drama.
- Read a little from a religious book
- Tidy/Clean the house so that it is spruced up for Easter.
- Pray a rosary
There are mving and beautiful reproaches sung on Good Friday ...
O My people, what have I done unto thee, or wherein have I wearied thee? Answer Me.
Because I brought thee forth from the land of Egypt: thou hast prepared a Cross for thy Saviour
Because I led thee through the desert forty years, and fed thee with manna, and brought thee into a land exceeding good: thou hast prepared a Cross for thy Saviour.
What more could I have done unto thee that I have not done? I indeed did plant thee, O My vineyard, with exceeding fair fruit: and thou art become very bitter unto Me: for vinegar, mingled with gall, thou gavest Me when thirsty: and hast pierced with a spear the side of thy Saviour.
I did scourge Egypt with her first-born for thy sake: and thou hast scourged Me and delivered Me up.
I led thee forth out of Egypt, drowning Pharaoh in the Red Sea: and thou hast delivered Me up unto the chief priests
I did open the sea before thee: and thou hast opened My side with a spear.
I did feed thee with manna in the desert: and thou hast stricken Me with blows and scourges.
: I did give thee to drink the water of life from the Rock: and thou hast given Me to drink but gall and vinegar.
...
I did raise thee on high with great power: and thou hast hanged Me upon the gibbet of the Cross.
O My people, what have I done unto thee, or wherein have I wearied thee? Answer Me.
The service on Good friday is also actually quite a hopeful one ( which is nice, after realising what we have done in the reproaches ), the church in it's liturgy instructs us to regard the wood of the cross for veneration, upon whom hund the saviour and hope of the world.
Faithful Cross, above all other, one and only noble Tree: none in foliage, none in blossom, none in fruit thy peer may be. Sweetest wood, and sweetest iron, sweetest weight is hung on thee.
Pax Christi.
Tuesday, 18 March 2008
Peter Kreeft- Recommended reading
So, after reading Peter Kreeft, and trying to understand philosophy, he has recommended that I read Aristotle for Everyone, Difficult thought Made Easy, by Mortimer Adler, and it is the easiest introduction I can think of to Aristotle and thereafter, Aquinas.
My next read however will not be Aquinas, or even Kreeft on Aquinas, but Pascals Pensees, another recommendation from Kreeft though.
At the end of lent, I exhort myself to remain strong, and to drink no alcohol in this holy week of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Pax Christum.
My next read however will not be Aquinas, or even Kreeft on Aquinas, but Pascals Pensees, another recommendation from Kreeft though.
At the end of lent, I exhort myself to remain strong, and to drink no alcohol in this holy week of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Pax Christum.
Friday, 22 February 2008
Skip the Snip, Vasectomies and Dementia
Research at Northwestern University, Illinois found 40% of men who had vasectomies later developed dementia, compared to just 1% of a control group
Skip the Snip - from Men's Health UK edition, March 2008, page 15
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