Mark Shea's Blog: So That No Thought of Mine, No Matter How Stupid, Should Ever Go Unpublished Again!
Here he is, reaching into a deep treasure trove of cultural kitsch to teach the elementary lesson that he who marries the current fashion will soon be a widower. It is the decreed fate of Christians, ordained by God Almighty, that those who will not fearlessly create culture without regard for what is trendy and [...]
Congrats to the Curt Jester on 10 years!
Namely, that an awful lot of atheist rhetoric is just sort of Protestant rhetoric on steroids. An interesting discussion follows in which he traces his reasons for abandoning atheistic materialism and returning to theism and the Catholic Faith. What is remarkable here, in contrast to so much of the rhetoric of the New Atheists is [...]
Fantastic story over on Al Kresta’s site: Not long ago, Gerry Brundage nervously signed up to lead a local 40 Days for Life campaign in his community of Sherman, Texas. He wasn’t sure if people would join their vigil outside of the local Planned Parenthood, or if they would see any results … but Gerry [...]
has a lovely reflection on what she is learning about taking her place in the Body of Christ.
…continues her post-abortion walk after her retreat and share her thoughts here.
…on the problem facing materialists who insist on saying the mind *is* the brain: In The Instrumentality of the Brain, we noted a boy born without a cerebellum — the part of the brain that controls motor skills, balance and emotions — and who “has the MRI of a vegetable”; yet who has learned to [...]
…reflects on his years as an atheist. Interesting combox discussion follows.
This recent blog post has been interesting to quite a few of my readers, and may be of interest to some of yours, too. It is on the deep anger against the Church many have, and the odd and garbled faith that lies beneath it – namely the expectation that the Church should be divine [...]
…is blindness to the fall. I partly agree and partly disagree. Certainly we are an age that doesn’t like to acknowledge sin against You Know Who, because that would entail acknowledging You Know Who. So yeah, you get all kinds of rubbish about Following Your Bliss and moral relativism and so forth. But we are, [...]
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