Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
At the beginning of Augustine's City of God we have this opening: My dear Marcellinus: This work which I have begun makes good my promise to you. In it I am undertaking nothing less than the task of defending the glorious City of God against those who prefer their own gods to its Founder. Flavius …
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Word of God W/G 7711 (1977) This is another in a series of albums that the Word of God put out featuring their worship songs and the music group that led them. It has an interesting mix of songs, including some of the community's own (Psalm 8, Psalm 18,) non-Catholic choruses (Therefore the Redeemed, Our …
I’ve been reading with interest the Rev. Ben Jeffries’ Is the Eucharistology of the Anglican Reformation Patristic? As those of you who follow this blog and Positive Infinity know, this is of special interest, as it was to the great Bossuet... Overcomplicating Anglican Eucharistic Theology
In the midst of everything else that's going on, next Monday (Lord willing) we'll start confirmation hearings for Amy Coney Barrett to be the newest justice on the Supreme Court. In light of the fact that she was and is in a Catholic Charismatic covenant community, I've tried to shed some light on what that …
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The week after next the grilling of our latest Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, will begin. There will be a great deal of pressure brought to bear on the fact that she is a serious Roman Catholic. That happened during the last nominating process; Diane Feinstein's remark about the dogma living loudly within her …
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Well, it's official: the product of a Catholic Charismatic covenant community, Amy Coney Barrett, is the nominee to be a Supreme Court Justice. My regular readers know that I've dealt with this subject over the years, from this piece in 2011 (where I document why I turned down the invitation to join one) to the …
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OCP managed to get itself into trouble by using an image of the Mormon Angel Moroni on the cover of its missal: The image below is from the cover of a missal being published by Oregon Catholic Press: The cover depicts an angel blowing a trumpet — but not just any angel. It’s the Mormon …
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A new survey shows that the majority of Americans no longer believe that Jesus is the path to salvation and instead believe that being a good person is sufficient. As part of the ongoing release of the Arizona Christian University-based Cultural Research Center's American Worldview Inventory, the latest findings — exploring perceptions of sin and …
Epoch Universal Publications/NALR 33420/FAI-78 (1978) https://youtu.be/yovIf-WvVh0 "Best Of"/Compilations weren't unknown in the "Jesus Music" era but they weren't common either. This is an interesting one, selected from the extensive offerings the ministry had in the 1970's. It includes many of their best known artists (and some lesser known ones) as follows: Paul Quinlan, a pioneer …
Twentieth Century-Fox TFM 3129 (1964) It's something of a departure from our usual offerings, but this is a vinyl phonograph documentary of Pope Paul VI's visit to the Holy Land at the time of the Epiphany in January 1964. First, however, some explanation of the medium is in order. https://youtu.be/1FNJEI-jGC4 Until the advent of video …
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