Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Answering Robert W. Jenson on contraception

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Robert W. Jenson (pictured right), a prominent Lutheran theologian, understandably has questions about Catholic teaching concerning contrace...
Monday, August 08, 2005

Golf and wisdom

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"I regard golf as an exercise in Scottish pointlessness designed for people who aren't strong enough to throw telephone poles at ea...

Fr. O'Leary's unorthodox "hot tub" Christology (Part I)

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Fr. Joseph O'Leary, a liberal Catholic priest teaching English Literature at Sophia University in Tokyo, has written an essay entitled ...

O'Leary in the dock ...

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An anonymous commentator on my last post suggests that this blog is much better without Fr. O'Leary dominating the comment boxes. He may...
Wednesday, August 03, 2005

Fr. O'Leary on the Resurrection

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Commenting on a recent post by Christopher entitled " The Perplexing Sayings of Fr. O'Leary " over at Against the Grain, which...

Another great book from Zaccheus Press

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John O'Leary (not Fr. Joseph O'Leary) of Zaccheus Press was kind enough to send me this new reprint edition of this long out-of-prin...
Tuesday, August 02, 2005

Sorting out O'Leary

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Christopher ( Against the Grain , August 2, 2005), offers a detailed analysis sorting out Fr. O'Leary's theological ideology in a po...
Monday, August 01, 2005

"To err is divine"???

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The August, 2005, issue of U.S. Catholic (or should I say U.S. Heretic ) carries an article by Alice Camille, entitled "To err is divi...

New light on Vatican II & its aftermath

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I've just read one of the most significant articles on Vatican II and its aftermath written in the last twenty years. This, at least, i...
Friday, July 29, 2005

Separation of Church and State gone to seed and silliness

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This just in from the Harold Sun : ... a high school brass band in Columbia in the US has been told it can no longer practise Christmas tune...

From two-bit whore houses to Bertha-sized Berlin brothel ...

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Back in the olden days, Bertha, Brunhilda and their sisters in the red lantern district of Kiel used to service the maritime clientele who f...

"The Roe Effect"

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A friend of mine just sent me James Taranto's remarkable article, " The Roe Effect " on how the right to abortion has diminish...
Tuesday, July 26, 2005

40 goats offered to buy Chelsea

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On a recent trip to Kenya, former US President Bill Clinton was apparently offered 40 goats and 20 cows for his daughter by a love-struck Af...
Monday, July 25, 2005

Hell, the apotheosis of the self, & the Schiavo killers

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Gilbert Meilaender, in an articled entitled "Being Dependent" in The Cresset (unavailable online), a Lutheran publication out of ...
Friday, July 22, 2005

"Ex-gay"

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"In 24 years of clinical experience, I've never had someone come to me troubled over his heterosexuality and wanting to change....