Spanning the Proverbial Globe to Bring You the Constant Variety of Posts
Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart. - Anne Frank, quoted by Mark of "Irish Elk"
Charming tales are redolent of the Celtic delight in story-telling - the bigger, the better - the more imaginative, the more intriguing, the more unbelievable...all that makes for a better and more memorable tale. And if every detail isn't exactly the truth...well, in folk times and places, purveyors and listeners of folk tales understood that there's a time to tell the truth ("BORING!")* and a time to spin a tale worth the tellin'! --Marion on Tom of Disputations
Marriage is primarily for our SANCTIFICATION, not for our GRATIFICATION. - Kathy the CARMELITE
I'm writing a piece on why I think Bill Murray's Groundhog Day was one of the best films of the last few decades and will undoubtedly hold up for generations to come. - Jonah Goldberg of "The Corner"
The more substantial question is how ecclesial unity is preserved in the Eastern churches, beyond the loose consensual unity that has only recently begun to be subjected to the corrosive acids of modernity and postmodernity. How theological disputes over faith and morals may be resolved remains a major question. Some Eastern churches accept and ecclesiastically sanction divorce and re-marriage (up to three times). Some Eastern churches ecclesiastically sanction the use of contraceptives (even though ancient tradition condemns contraception and pills today are proven abortifacients). How such practices can be squared with Sacred Tradition or be ecclesiastically resolved among acephalous Orthodox hierarchies that do not recognize one another's jurisdiction remains a major question as well. - Philip Blosser of "Catholic Tradition"
While I agree with the hilarious IowaHawk that one shouldn't invest too much weight in announcing a respite from blogging ("Telling us "blogging will be light" is sort of like calling up the neighbors to announce you won't be nude sunbathing in the back yard for a while . . ."), blogging may nevertheless "be light" in the coming week(s). - Christopher of Ratzinger Fan Club blog
Our faith objectively is true, but truth is known by the intellect, not the emotions. The emotions may motivate us to investigate the truth of something, but they cannot establish its truth. That is a task for the mind. If our faith were proved by "fif," [funny internal feelings] then those saints who underwent a dark night of the soul--I have in mind such luminaries as John of the Cross and Teresa of Avila--could not be said to have accepted the faith as true. For substantial periods they had the opposite of a "burning in the bosom," but they never chucked the faith because, despite the lack of emotional highs, they knew it to be true because their minds told them so. All Catholics need to remember that the virtue of faith has to do with the mind, not with the emotions. - Karl Keating
To echo Mr. P: How [can] anybody…really, truly be a modern liberal [?] You just can't go around doing real, constructive good without a concept of what Good is. - Mark of Irish Elk
I started this blog back in 2000 and have been posting almost every day since. More than 10,000 posts later... yes, I can believe I'm still at it. Very addictive stuff, as many of you know all too well...As blogging passes through its "CB radio" era and into its "Disco Duck" phase, I don't have any deep thoughts to share with you about the phenomenon. I am almost, but not quite, resigned to the fact that someday this blog will cost me a job. Google Cache is what it is, and I can't/won't undo stuff I wrote in anger and haste for tacky, careerist reasons. Regardless of the consequences, I plan to continue doing my subatomic part to (ahem) prevent Western Civilization's demise at the hands of Islamikazes and self-hating Marxist dupes. - Kathy of Relapsed Catholic
[The] Mass is not something that the people do. It's not something that the celebrant does, either. The Mass is something that Christ does. The Mass takes place in this world and has effects upon it, but it is not of this world. That is why there is always something peculiar and out-of-the-ordinary about liturgical worship. - Fr. Jim Tucker
You will notice that none of these books [I am currently reading] is directly religious. Nowadays most of my reading is on subjects unrelated to my vocation. There was a time when I read nothing but apologetics, but too much of one topic throws one off kilter. I didn't want to end up being described by Churchill's definition of a fanatic: "one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." - Karl Keating
Another book I am making some progress with is "Predestination" by Rev. Garrigou-Lagrange. This is a book by a Dominican on Catholic thinking on predestination. I thought that it might throw some light on the problem of free will. Like Popper's book, it is difficult but worthwhile...Some books are difficult and the result of all one's efforts is paltry. They resemble one of those puzzles from magazines that my wife often asks me to help her with: a lot of cerebration goes on; words are painstakingly filled in; and the result of one's efforts is a final word like "artichoke". That's your reward.- Julian of The Julian Calendar
I don't know very much about Catholicism. - beginning of a Tom of Disputations' post. This would seem 'grabbing our attention by way of a fib'
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