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Freedom of Religion

2016-05-19T01:56:21-05:00

A little while ago, about a month to be exact, I ran across this item in the admirable web site, Today’s Martyrs: “In the United States the Georgia Department of Public Health is being sued by Dr. Eric Walsh.  In addition to his medical work Dr. Walsh is a part-time minister.  He had been hired by [...]

Freedom of Religion2016-05-19T01:56:21-05:00

Today’s Martyrs

2016-04-16T22:42:03-05:00

I came across an interesting and important web site a few weeks ago. It’s called "Today’s Martyrs", and it records the true stories of many of those who are persecuted because they confess Jesus of Nazareth as their savior.  The owner of the web site contacted me because I had reproduced his list of those Christians [...]

Today’s Martyrs2016-04-16T22:42:03-05:00

The Aztec Solution

2016-04-06T01:43:41-05:00

Here are the opening paragraphs in a recent article in the Catholic Herald of London: “Doctors should be given power to kill patients who wish to die from euthanasia by harvesting their organs for transplants while they are still alive, a team of medical researchers in Holland have proposed. “Instead of dying by lethal injection, people [...]

The Aztec Solution2016-04-06T01:43:41-05:00

2015-12-17T17:19:48-06:00

The ultimate fate of the traditional family is the decisive issue of our time. A few days ago, there was an on line article in the Catholic Herald of London with Dr. Anca-Maria Cernea, representative of the Association of Catholic Doctors of Bucharest, Romania. You can read the full article here: http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/commentandblogs/2015/12/15/meet-the-lay-woman-who-shook-up-the-family-synod/ It struck me that [...]

2015-12-17T17:19:48-06:00

The Gleam in the Eye

2014-07-16T21:42:38-05:00

A few days ago I clicked on a radio interview concerning Siegfried Sassoon, the English poet who wrote so powerfully about his combat experiences in World War One. The specific subject was a poem called Atrocities, which was edited before publication to remove some of the most blunt and brutal lines. It was, after all, war [...]

The Gleam in the Eye2014-07-16T21:42:38-05:00

Friends of Christ

2014-05-05T23:38:06-05:00

Last month the Chinese authorities tore down Sanjiang church in the city of Wenzhou, a city known as the Jerusalem of the East.   There are also recent incidents reported in which the government destroyed objects of Catholic devotion while Catholics stood by weeping.   Christianity, both Protestant and Catholic, is flourishing in China, where on [...]

Friends of Christ2014-05-05T23:38:06-05:00

A Remarkable Display

2014-03-26T04:17:27-05:00

I recently came across a remarkable display of old photographs on the Daily Telegraph web site. Coincidentally, this was the day after I’d received a new issue of the Saint Austin Review, the theme of which is World War One. The photographs are here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/10719406/Former-dustmans-salvaged-WW1-archive.html?frame=2861436 A dustman – someone we call a trash collector in the [...]

A Remarkable Display2014-03-26T04:17:27-05:00

Catholicism and Russia

2014-01-07T06:42:47-06:00

I noted an article last month, in the Catholic Herald published on line in the UK, about a visit by Cardinal Kurt Koch to St. Petersburg and Moscow. You can read about it here: http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2013/12/21/cardinals-visit-to-russia-strengthens-catholic-orthodox-ties/ The Cardinal speaks of improvements in relations between Orthodoxy in Russia and the Catholic Church, although there are, as one Catholic [...]

Catholicism and Russia2014-01-07T06:42:47-06:00

Shakespeare as Schoolmaster

2013-04-09T06:03:36-05:00

A story at the BBC tells us that young Will Shakespeare may have been, for a few years, a provincial schoolmaster and not a director, producer, actor or writer of plays. It’s here:   http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-22064636   Can you imagine the creator of Hamlet and King Lear on the receiving end of the spit-balls and the giggles [...]

Shakespeare as Schoolmaster2013-04-09T06:03:36-05:00

A Beautiful Symmetry

2013-01-20T03:32:27-06:00

In a lovely decision – I can think of no better way of describing it – a Polish court has ruled against a law suit by an anti-clerical political party which sought to have a crucifix removed from display in the Polish Parliament.Please see here:http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=16825Accusing the complaining party of intolerance, the judge’s decision makes a beautifully [...]

A Beautiful Symmetry2013-01-20T03:32:27-06:00
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