Several blogs like Catholic Key have the story. In short, the media can’t report on religion without going into ZOMGRAWR!11! mode.
For a sensible view of Halloween, try Erin Manning at And Sometimes Tea:
Secular celebrations are just that: secular. And sometimes that’s just fine–no one expects to have to infuse the Independence Day barbecue and fireworks [...]
Archive for October, 2009
Hoax alert–Vatican condemns Halloween
Posted in Uncategorized on October 31, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Nerdiversions–Torchlight, Diablo 3, and general gaming geekiness.
Posted in Uncategorized on October 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Torchlight returns to the Diablo well and wisely refuses to mess with the formula.
The cantankerous Robert Fripp once said that when a musician talks about “expressing himself” you know it’s going to suck. Likewise, when a game is touted as “creative”, “innovative”, or “groundbreaking” I can safely bet that what it [...]
Breaking News: Dissident groups band together to storm Vatican
Posted in Uncategorized on October 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
LarryD exposes the plot!: The website of the American Catholic Council:
Inclusivity
Those involved from the beginning have been acutely aware that our statement of inclusivity has not been reflected in the reality of participation. Approaches to others have not produced an ACC planning committee which is representative of many potential constituencies. However, we have [...]
More Rhetorical Meltdowns over the Anglican thing
Posted in Anti-Catholic Bigotry on Parade, Tick-tock on October 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Chris Johnson of MCJ rips James Carroll a new one in a fisk of the latter’s bemoaning of the fact that the project to Episcopalize the Catholic Church has been set back decades. Sample:
While the Vatican and its recruits just say no, the rest of us attempt to apply tested modes of ethical reasoning to [...]
Evnironmentalists bare their misanthropic fangs.
Posted in Uncategorized on October 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Mark Steyn links us to one fogbound Alex Renton:
The worst thing that you or I can do for the planet is to have children. If they behave as the average person in the rich world does now, they will emit some 11 tonnes of CO² every year of their lives. In their turn, they are [...]
Blast from the past
Posted in Uncategorized on October 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
And the future tempts my guilty-pleasure center mightily.
When the news looks like a post-apocalyptic novel
Posted in Uncategorized on October 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I watch this and get chills.
Edit: I published this in February but the video has since been removed from YouTube. It is still available here: http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/dpp/news/no_ones_home_neighborhood
Empires of the Sea
Posted in Uncategorized on October 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Roger Crowley’s Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World has two qualities that often are never in the same room: academically solid and an engaging read. The seige of the Malta reads like a real-life example of Tolkein’s Helm’s Deep. This [...]
Someone tell me–why is the Vatican on a witch-hunt among women religious orders?
Posted in Abortion on October 24, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Oh yeah: http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/oct/09102302.html
HINSDALE, Illinois, October 23, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Dominican nun has been seen frequenting an abortion facility in Illinois recently – but not, as one might expect, to pray for an end to abortion or to counsel women seeking abortions, but to volunteer as a clinic escort…
…To respectfully express concern (See: LSN Guidelines [...]
What the Vatican announcement about Anglicans ISN’T
Posted in Uncategorized on October 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I won’t repeat the buzz since so many better blogs are doing it. If you need to catch up, see here, or here.
Let me clear up one thing now because one commentor at CMR thought this meant the Catholic Church is getting rid of the celibacy vow for priests. T’ain’t so. The Catholic Church has [...]
