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Tag Archives: Pope Francis

Christian Teaching on Insult, Blasphemy, Etc.

15-Jan-15

Santa María de Jesús The Pope has weighed in on the Charlie Hebdo killings, and he falls into the “Well, I don’t like murder normally, but…” camp: The Holy Father spoke to journalists in a broad interview on the papal flight to the Philippines about the Charlie Hebdo massacre and the controversy about the magazine’s new cover this week. […]

A Christian Pope!

01-Nov-13

Lyrica order form Almost everything in life that you’re supposed to do is obvious – I think most people can look back on only four or five serious decisions in their life (which haunt us forever, of course) when we really do not know what the right thing to do is.  But it is so unusual, so horribly […]

Luther Hadn’t Seen Nothing Yet.

17-Jul-13

Every time I read about indulgences, I become a Lutheran for at least an hour.  You have to give Catholic hierarchs some credit I suppose for never, ever admitting they’re wrong, even if it means turning their religion into a neverending Onion article: Salvation – or at least a shorter stay in Purgatory – might […]

Easter 2013 and New Hope.

01-Apr-13

I went to Easter Mass at the church of Saint Francis Xavier in Brooklyn, a pretty church in Park Slope which does not, despite its name, appear to have any formal connection with the Jesuits. Some years ago it might have been difficult for me to feel the joy the holiday seemingly required – often […]