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    Contraception

    You won't understand the catholic church's teaching (not suprising since most Catholics don't seem to understand it either) until you distinguish birth control (ie birth regulation - in a family planning sense) from contraception. And to do that you need to understand that birth control/NFP may...
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    This Sunday: The Feast of Pentecost

    You send out your Spirit, and they are created. You renew the face of the earth. (Ps104)
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    Benedict XVI in Turin on Sunday

    I hope to see the Pope at his Wednesday audience on May 5th and the shroud on May 13th (unless that pesky volcano rumbles again)
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    Brideshead Revisited....anyone? I don't get it!

    April Vanity Fair article on a new book about Waugh and his life with the Lygon family (prototype of the Marchmains?) Waugh and Brideshead | Culture | Vanity Fair a cast reunion radio program broadcast last Sunday BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programmes - The Reunion, Brideshead Revisited Waugh's...
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    Brideshead Revisited....anyone? I don't get it!

    YouTube - Brideshead Revisited - Episode 11 - PART 10 2m40s The chapel showed no ill effects of its long neglect. The paint was as fresh and bright as ever. And the lamp burned once more before the altar. I knelt and said a prayer - an ancient, newly-learned form of words. I thought that...
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    Why I am a Catholic - by Joseph Ratzinger (1971)

    As the sun sets on Good Friday my prayers turn to Pope Benedict, may God keep safe and bless the man who turned my view back towards the cross.
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    Pro-Life Investigator Behind ACORN Sting Operation

    Huggy Bear a student of Alinsky and Chesterton? http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/19/us/19sting.html
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    Caritas in Veritate

    Hot off the press, Benedict XVI's third encyclical "Caritas in veritate" - Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Benedict XVI Charity in truth, to which Jesus Christ bore witness by his earthly life and especially by his death and resurrection, is the principal driving force behind the authentic...
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    Peter and the Keys, Catholicism and the Pope (4)

    time for a summer solstice interlude http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvFOuvp0nFg
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    Peter and the Keys, Catholicism and the Pope (4)

    next post
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    Encyclical Ut Unum Sint - John Paul II Bold Words

    Cardinal Ratzinger himself at one point was considering the idea of declaring the Augsburg Confession to be a catholic expression of the faith (despite its criticisms of the church) and as Benedict XVI has continued to study Luther closely. His work in this area helped to lead to this : Joint...
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    Encyclical Ut Unum Sint - John Paul II Bold Words

    If we are going to have a thread on 1302 lets have one on 1995 too. Ut unum sint - Ioannes Paulus PP. II - Encyclical Letter (1995.05.25) starts as: 1. Ut unum sint! The call for Christian unity made by the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council with such impassioned commitment is finding an...
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    Peter and the Keys, Catholicism and the Pope

    The church fathers understood Christ restored the fallen priesthood to the pattern of Melchizedek, as seen in the ancient eucharistic prayer of the Roman canon Look with favor on these offerings and accept them as once you accepted the gifts of your servant Abel, the sacrifice of Abraham, our...
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    Peter and the Keys, Catholicism and the Pope

    And the Catholic and Orthodox have a dragon in their bible (Daniel 14) :) Perhaps the fable of the phoenix was one of the reasons it didn't make it the cut as scripture - I don't know - but if the concern is but wait isn't the pope supposed to be infallible -no popes make mistakes all the time...
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    Peter and the Keys, Catholicism and the Pope

    Clements letter was accepted by the church at Corinth, read in their liturgy as part of their canon for centuries, and circulated widely. Ultimately it didn't make it into the universal canon but sometimes I wonder where we'd be if it did :) Which is not to say I consider it scripture - I don't.
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