North of the Shire

This story is almost a year old, but I first heard about it on Catholic radio last week, on the Catholic Channel on Sirius, Across the Nation with Bob Dunning.

I don’t wish to mock those Christians who are dispensationalist, even though there is no warrant, either in Tradition or Scripture for their fanciful end times theories, but I have to admit I had a belly laugh at this one.

http://www.mainstreet.com/article/lifestyle/all-dogs-dont-go-heaven-post-rapture-pet-care

Here’s another from Insight Scoop posted by Carl Olson of Father Barron talking about why God made the world.


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Here’s a fascinating article. I heard it mentioned on the radio today and was intrigued.

Apparently Dr. Bloom has conducted studies that conclude, at least to his own satisfaction, that it is demonstrable that babies have the recognition of good and evil from the time they are born.

My response is a long drawn out, “duhhhh!” Continue Reading »

Here’s a great post I found linked from Insight Scoop;

Spock Would Make A Great Catholic

Well done by Larry D.

…regardless of how I understand the doctrine Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus, whether in the strict sense of Fr. Feeney or in a more nuanced sense that seems to prevail in the thinking of the Magisterium including Benedict XVI and John Paul II, as evidenced in encyclicals and the CCC.

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Here’s the headline;

‘Monogamous’ Gays Can Serve in ELCA
Largest Lutheran Denomination in U.S. Split on Divisive Issue

From the Washington Post articlehere is an interesting quote;

“We live today with an understanding of homosexuality that did not exist in Jesus’ time and culture,” Tim Mumm, a lay delegate from Wisconsin and supporter of Lutherans Concerned, an gay-rights organization, said during the debate. “We are responding to something that the writers of Scripture could not have understood.”

Does this then mean that for at least the part of the ELCA Sola Scriptura has been dropped?

I have read part way through Pope Benedict XVI’s encyclical Caritas in Veritate, and along the way I have read some of the commentary, from Catholics, about the content of the document.

There is one huge elephant in the room. Let us see if we can point our flashlights in its direction and identify it.
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Here’s a most interesting post found at The Truth Will Make You Free, a blog by Father Robert A. Connor, Chaplain at Southmont, a center of Opus Dei in South Orange, New Jersey.  The conclusion or highlight of the post I have quoted below;

The Point of it all: Will the engendering of Christ again in all those who achieve the heart of Our Lady bring about the new culture and civilization that we are awaiting for the development of this third millennium of Jesus Christ? That is, will each of us become “alter Christus” in the ordinary life of work and family life such that the absolute truth of the human person (imaging the prototype, Jesus Christ) become the ordering principle of freedom. Continue Reading »