Oct
12
This I Believe
October 12, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Ordinarily I find myself a little put off by the NPR series “This I Believe”. Some of the folks taking the podium in that forum strike me as a little full of themselves. I don’t want to vent about it, though, since it’s too close to blogging to be a comfortable thing to whine about.
However, [...]
Oct
10
The Real Dave Armstrong
October 10, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Reading Dave Armstrong’s blog Cor ad Cor Loquitur always reminds me of when I was in graduate school, because I used to know a guy who was just as much a fiend for apologetics as Dave. Then, when I happened upon a picture of Dave Armstrong, I began to wonder whether his name–or my friend’s–isn’t [...]
Oct
7
The Ethic of Life
October 7, 2005 | Leave a Comment
I’m beginning to think that Mike Liccione is a genius. After all, he often says out loud what I have secretly thought for years. In a post yesterday I mentioned briefly and in passing that I, personally, think that opposition to abortion and to capital punishment go hand-in-hand, and Mike makes an eloquent and more [...]
Oct
7
“Coming to the Lord” and Real Christians
October 7, 2005 | Leave a Comment
The other day as I was doing my Morning Penance–listening to NPR’s Morning Edition–I heard a conversation with Harriet Mier’s pastor, who was talking about the day she “came to the Lord”, by which he meant the day she abandoned the Catholic faith in favor of Evangelical Christianity. The implication was that while she was [...]
Oct
6
Pitchforking Babies
October 6, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Within seconds of publishing the previous post, I read this wonderful piece by Tom Kreitzberg. Tom is talking about the “logical standards” that it is tempting to apply in every day conversations and he raises the question of how reasonable (!) it is to have such expectations in such conversations:
Not that I deny there is [...]
Oct
6
More Muddled Thought
October 6, 2005 | Leave a Comment
There is a report today at CNS about “Cardinal Mario Pompedda, the retired head of the Apostolic Signature, the Vatican’s supreme court,” who “said Catholics might find sufficient reasons to consider such a candidate a ‘lesser evil’ in a field of imperfect choices.” This contradicts the opinions of some American Cardinals and Bishops, who agree [...]
Oct
5
Ecumenism Shmecumenism
October 5, 2005 | Leave a Comment
I used to be irritated by stories like this, because I love not only Christ’s Church but the Truths that He teaches us through His Church’s Magisterium, and it’s hard to keep a calm head about one when someone is attacking Christ in this way. But over the years I’ve mellowed a little. In particular, [...]
Oct
4
The Evolution of the Soul
October 4, 2005 | Leave a Comment
In thinking some more about the controversy between ID and evolution, it occurred to me that evolution, as a description of something that happens to us (that is, we species) physically, is not a particularly bad metaphor for something that happens to us (that is, we individual body/soul entities) spiritually.
A biological species is an interesting [...]
