Mar
5
Saint Paul the Docetist
March 5, 2007 | 6 Comments
As I mentioned last week, one of my Lenten activities each year is to read through the New Testament in Greek from cover to cover, beginning on Ash Wednesday and finishing up on Holy Saturday. That amounts to roughly 15 pages per day, which doesn’t sound like all that much until you actually sit down [...]
Mar
5
What Sam Brownback Should Have Said
March 5, 2007 | 7 Comments
This morning I listened to an interview with Sam Brownback on NPR (now available online here). The interviewer was Renee Montagne, and she used a rather clever rhetorical device on the self-styled “Bleeding Heart Conservative.” In her lead-up to a question about abortion, she began by talking about something she characterized as a kind of [...]
Mar
4
Ad Orientem
March 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Fr. Jay Scott Newman has a nice little post up in defense of the traditional stance of the celebrant during Mass. Our Holy Father has also defended this stance in his book The Spirit of the Liturgy (available from Ignatius). It seems that there are more and more places turning back towards the liturgical East, [...]
