Sep
29
I Wish I’d Said That
September 29, 2005 | Leave a Comment
I should have known that Mike Liccione would have far more interesting and eloquent things to say about the meeting between Küng and Pope Benedict XVI than I. Better late than never to acknowledge it, I suppose. Among much other thoughtful stuff, this caught my eye in particular:
That’s not to deny that theologians of Küng’s [...]
Sep
29
Ratzinger and Küng
September 29, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Chris Blosser (Ratzinger Fan Club) has some words of wisdom regarding the recent meeting between Pope Benedict XVI and Hans Küng, particularly this, regarding a possible reason why Küng could not get an audience with John Paul the Great:
I have to wonder if Pope John Paul II might have been more considerate of Küng’s request [...]
Sep
28
The Grass is Always Greener…
September 28, 2005 | Leave a Comment
I wouldn’t mind having him in one of my classes. It would beat the vapid stares I usually encounter.
Sep
27
Bibliophile Alert
September 27, 2005 | Leave a Comment
The LibraryThing is totally cool. It’s free for catalogues of up to 200 books but if, like me, you have well over 5000 books in your house, you will need to pay a one-time fee of $10. Well worth it, I’d say, for all the information it will put at your fingertips quickly and easily! [...]
Sep
23
Gluttony
September 23, 2005 | Leave a Comment
When they got out on land, they saw a charcoal fire there, with fish lying on it, and bread.
Call me old fashioned, but I don’t eat meat on Friday. Although Catholics in the United States were excused from the age-old restriction on eating flesh meat on Fridays as long ago as 1967, and the 1983 [...]
Sep
22
O Felix Culpa! O necessarium peccatum Adae!
September 22, 2005 | Leave a Comment
There is an excellent post at DarwinCatholic on the connection between sin and suffering that is due to natural disasters (such as the one about to be visited upon the Gulf coast). Mr. Darwin (I hope he doesn’t mind if I call him that–I don’t know whether he wants his real name bandied about) notes [...]
Sep
22
Get Ready for the Storm
September 22, 2005 | Leave a Comment
No, not Rita. The storm of letters to ABC Radio. The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights reports that Kim Serafin of KABC radio in Los Angeles slandered the Catholic Church and was not disciplined in any meaningful way by her supervisors. This in spite of the fact that ABC radio talk-show host Michael [...]
Sep
21
Catholic Scientists/Philosophers of Science
September 21, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Steve over at Speculative Catholic (a great blog) has a bunch of bubble-shaped icons over on the left side-bar that lead you to nice links like “Catholicism in Science Fiction”, “Catholic Astronaut List” and “Steve’s Photoshops.” One of them, “Catholic Scientists”, however, does not link to anything! I keep clicking on it, hoping to find [...]
Sep
21
Is Life Elsewhere?
September 21, 2005 | Leave a Comment
That title is supposed to be one of my exceedingly clever and erudite puns, this time on the title of Milan Kundera’s Life is Elsewhere, but I confess that, as puns go, it is neither clever nor erudite, since the only connection between what I’m going to write about and the contents of that brilliant [...]
Sep
21
Two Sides to Every Story
September 21, 2005 | Leave a Comment
In the interest of fairness, here are links to the Troglodyte’s (Scott Warmka) responses to my post on ID from a few days ago. He responds in three parts here, here, and here.
It will be clear to anyone who has followed the arguments that he and I have advanced that we are not really all [...]