In a lengthy piece on Algeria's succession dilemma, we have this: At least six opposition parties boycotted the elections, arguing that the results were determined well ahead of the voting and that the ballot would not change the nature of the governing regime. One of the many opposition movements, Barakat (“Enough”), regularly demonstrated for peaceful …
Frances Mary Hunter Gordon: The Woldingham Folk Mass
(1968) It didn't take long after Vatican II for new forms of the Mass to emerge. This not only included the Novus Ordo Missae in 1970 (which is still in place, albeit with the Latinate English translation now in force) but also with new music. On this side of the Atlantic, we had Peter Scholtes …
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An Old Irish Biker Nails It On Civil Marriage
Nick Park, pastor of the Solid Rock Church and Administrative Bishop of the Church of God in Ireland, gets it: The solution is clear. It’s time for the Government to get out of the marriage business. In fact, for most of human history, marriage was something practiced by communities (both religious and non-religious) and the …
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God, His Unity and Perfection: The Holiness of God
This is the last in this series from Bossuet's Elevations on the Mysteries, 1,10: 1. God is the Holy One of Israel God particularly delights in the name of holy. Very often he calls himself the holy one of Israel: he wants that his holiness be his motif, and the principle of ours: be holy …
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God, His Unity and Perfection: The Love of God, Despised and Implacable
The next part of Bossuet's Elevations on the Mysteries, 1,9: Because you have not wanted to serve the Lord your God with pleasure and in the joy of your heart, in the abundance of all of his good things, you will be subjected to an implacable enemy which the Lord will send over you, in …
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God, His Unity and Perfection: Goodness and Love of God Around Penitent Sinners
Again we have Bossuet's Elevations on the Mysteries, 1,8: It is said by a common proverb (Jeremiah 3) : If a husband leaves his wife and she, going away from him, marries another husband, will the first take her back? This woman, will she not be soiled and abominable? And you, sinning soul, you are …
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God, His Unity and Perfection: The Goodness of God and His Love Around His Own
Another post from Bossuet's Elevations on the Mysteries, I, 7: It's a father, it's a mother, it's a nurturer. A mother, can she forget the child which she carried in her womb? And when she does forget it, I will never forget you, (Isaiah 49,15), says the Lord. The Lord your God has carried you …
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God, His Unity and Perfection: The All-Powerful Protection of God
Moving on, this from Bossuet's Elevations on the Mysteries, 1,6: (Isaiah 40, 41:14 and onward) Climb up to the top of a high mountain, you who evangelise, you who announce to Zion the good news of her salvation: raise up a powerful voice, you who announce to Jerusalem her happiness: raise your voice, do not …
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When Title IX Backfires: Cutting the Men's Track and Field Program
A week ago the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga decided to cut the men's track and field program: The men’s indoor and outdoor track & field teams will no longer be programs, according to Vice Chancellor and Director of Athletics David Blackburn. The Mocs are concluding their five-year Title IX process, which is aimed at …
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God, His Unity and Perfection: The Foreknowledge and Providence of God
A new instalment in our series from Bossuet's Elevations on the Mysteries, 1.5: Who hath wrought and done these things, calling the generations from the beginning? I the Lord, I am the first and the last, (Isaiah 41:4 DRB) who in the centre of my eternity see all begin and all end. Babylon, assemble your …
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