Jul
4
When the First Stone is Really a Millstone
July 4, 2006 | Leave a Comment
The other day I was perusing some posts at Roman Catholic Blog, and I noticed a very long contribution to the comments section of one post. The comment was many times longer than the post itself, and was prefaced with a title and everything. It’s not all that unusual to get spam in your comments–that’s [...]
Jul
3
The Battle of Shanksville
July 3, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Fr. Fox of Bonfire of the Vanities has a nice post up describing the site of our first victory in the war on terror.
Jul
1
Eamon Duffy on Papal Power
July 1, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Here is an interesting passage from Eamon Duffy’s Saints and Sinners: A History of the Popes (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997; revised edition 2001):
A crucial influence in the development of the idea that the Pope himself might be free from error came from the Franciscan debates about poverty. Successive popes had ruled in favour [...]
