The BBC reports visions of the Blessed Virgin to a peasant woman in Burundi… Read more

You may remember that the Traditional Anglican Communion–a 400,000 strong global alliance of conservative Anglicans wrote to the Vatican last Spring asking how they might come into full communion with the Holy See. The Vatican sent a courteous ‘wait and see’ response in July. Then in July the Anglican bishops gathered from around the world for the once-a-decade Lambeth Conference. The debates over women bishops and homosexuality dominated the headlines. Evangelical Anglicans met in Jerusalem the week before and formed... Read more

Too often religious people are portrayed as mindless drones who find the ‘off’ switch on their brain early on and never switch it back on again. If we’re not actually stupid we’re ignorant, and if we’re not ignorant we’re closed minded, and if we’re not close minded then we’re intentionally unthinking. We have to be because we’ve accepted religious dogma and a religious authority. Far be it from me to deny that there are stupid, ignorant, close minded and intentionally... Read more

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An Anglo Catholic priest in England makes observations about ecumenism here, and they got me thinking. While we must work for the final goal that we may all be one in Christ, it seems obvious that before we can do much fruitful work in ecumenism, that we need further work on ecclesiology. In other words, how can we have a united church if we are not sure what the church actually is? As a convert from Evangelical Christianity, and then... Read more

Why did the Son of God have to suffer for us? There was a great need, and it can be considered in a twofold way: in the first place, as a remedy for sin, and secondly, as an example of how to act. It is a remedy, for in the face of all the evils which we incur on account of our sins, we have found relief through the passion of Christ. Yet, it is no less an example, for... Read more

We welcome our new father in God! Rocco reports more about our new Bishop Elect, Msgr. Robert Guglielmone, and his statement in Charleston on Saturday. Read it here. Read more

Here’s a good article by George Weigel about the lifting of the excommunication of the SSPX bishops. There is still a lot of work to be done. Mark Shea comments and gathers other comments here. Read more

The Unreal City In a dream I walked though the unreal city,Down streets that were silent and desolate.Stone faces gazed on me without pity,although I was poor and desperate. They gazed from towers of marble and glass,and watched as I wandered the empty lanes.No one restrained me, they let me pass,and then returned to their flickering screens. Over the doors were the names of power:Xanadu Bank, Mammon Securities,Ozimandius Insurance Tower,Iscariot’s Purse Global Equities. I watched the towers grow and multiply,and... Read more

The have been accused in the comments box of ‘hating’ our new President. I don’t think I hate him as a person. Indeed, I’m proud that our country has elected a black man, and that so many of my countrymen have hope for the future, and are optimistic, and I hope he succeeds in making our country a better place. I don’t hate him. However, I do dislike a trait he evidences which is a symptom of the philosophy he... Read more