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Theme Lighthouse: Stiff

Four years after Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes and expelled the Protestants, his minister Vauban erected this lighthouse on the Île d'Ouessant off of Brittany.  Louis did many things for his God and Church but some of them in the long run made things difficult for the Catholic church in France, proof that things are never simple with Roman Catholicism.

Called out of the Pews

 What is the role of the laity in the church?  One South Florida Catholic parish shows the way.

Discours sur l'Histoire Universelle (Discourse on the Complete Histoy)

Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (pdf format, in French)

 An overview of history from an entirely Christian perspective. It shows that history is a progression guided by divine providence. The central event of that history is the coming of Jesus Christ. A work by one of France's greatest orators and writers.

Emmanuel:
Yahweh in the Morning
Come to Me

 Great Catholic Charismatic folk music from the group associated with the University of Steubenville and its conferences.

Evangelicals and Catholics Together: A Letter to Keith Fournier

 Putting these two groups together isn't as simple as it looks. A detailed look at Fournier's book and some questions that he would not answer.

Family of God:
Honor, Wisdom, Glory and Praise

 A production of a Catholic/ecumenical prayer group based in Ft. Worth, Texas. More music to uplift and edify.

Just One Bull Away

 How close can the Roman Catholic Church be to change? Closer than you think.

Nine Months

 A reflection on Roman Catholicism and other topics, in fictional form.

More Than One Peter?

 A potentially controversial look at a some very important Bible verses in Matthew 16.

We May Not Be a Church After All

 Don't criticise what the Vatican has to say until you have your definitions right.

Orthdoxy

G.K. Chesterton
(pdf format)

 Probably one of the best defences --and certainly one of the most entertaining -- of the Christian faith ever written. G.K. Chesterton, along with Hillaire Belloc, were major Christian influences on J.R.R. Tolkien, who of course wrote the incomparable Lord of the Rings.

A Time for Everything

 There is a time for everything in this life. Things get really interesting, though, when it's time for two things at once.

Roger Smith, Michael Howell and the New Commitment:
Who Shall Spread the Good News?

 When it comes to modern Catholic Liturgical music, it just doesn't get any better than this.

Songs For The Masses

 The seminarians at St. Mary's do a creditable job in composing and performing for the masses. And the Masses.

Protestant or Catholic: Choose Ye This Day, Anglicans

The Vatican is trying to force Anglicans’ hand on the subject of which way they need to go: The Vatican has said that the time has come for the Anglican Church to choose between Protestantism and the ancient churches of Rome and Orthodoxy. Speaking on the day that the Archbishop of Canterbury met Benedict XVI in Rome, [...]

A Kairos Moment for Texas Catholics

This week’s podcast is Let Your Face Wear a Smile, from the group Kairosingers’ album Of One Accord.  This group of Texas Catholics from Port Arthur, Texas (the home of Janis Joplin) brings to mind many things about Texas Catholicism during the 1970’s, and the kinds of lessons we might learn today. The album cover defines [...]

The Example of Ambrose

Travis Johnson’s proposal concerning the election of state Administrative Bishops in the Church of God is an interesting one.  From its start the Church of God has appointed its state and regional (diocesan, for you Anglicans and Roman Catholics) prelates centrally at the biennial General Assembly.  It’s easy to draw from this (and current Roman [...]

Training the Trainers: The Key to Successful Missions

Abu Daoud, in his reflections on Pope Paul VI’s encyclical Evangelii Nuntiandi, makes the following observations: The name of this strategy that I have heard is "training the trainer," though though are other names. The traditional model in missions was to send out a pastor-missioner or a group of missionaries who would start a church and [...]

Choose Life

This week’s podcast takes us to inner city Chicago, where Peter Scholtes put together one of the most interesting (if not the most polished) productions of early post-Vatican II Catholic Music.  The song featured is Choose Life, with a decidedly "African" sound. It comes from the album They’ll Know We are Christians By Our Love, the [...]

Was Benedict?s Baptism of a Muslim Convert a Good Idea?

Pope Benedict XVI’s rather spectacular baptism of a Muslim convert has generated a good deal of discussion amongst Christians and Muslims alike.  Rather than adding unnecessary heat to the subject, I commend the dialogue between Abu Daoud and Sister Sherry–Anglican and Roman Catholic respectively working in the Middle East–on this subject. On this, I am inclined [...]

Were You There?

Since this is Maunday Thursday, this week’s podcast is a "Good Friday classic:" Were You There?, performed by the Roman Catholic Wendy Vickers. The rest of this album is at The Ancient Star Song. Bookmark to: Hide Sites

Book Review: Velvet Elvis

There seems to be a growing dissatisfaction in the way American Evangelical churches are going these days, and there is emerging a group of spokesmen for this feeling.  I’ve taken a look at the likes of Leonard Sweet and Brian McLaren, but another one of those who is looking for a new way of doing [...]

When Hebrew Blessing Meets Irish Blessing

Readers of the Scriptures are familiar with the many blessings that appear in the Bible, especially those in the Old Testament.  Many Celts and the fans thereof are familiar with the blessings that the Irish come up with.  But what if the two could be combined?  Jim Cowan and Emmanuel do just that in the [...]

Think Before You Review

The fact that Catholic bishops ordered a favourable Golden Compass review off of their web site shows that someone in the US RCC is definitely "asleep at the switch" concerning this whole business. Having been covering this since early November (the original review, the follow-up and a comment on the whole business of the "magisterium,") it’s [...]

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