tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37215072009-11-09T00:00:00.478-05:00A conservative blog for peace<a title="Pray for peace." href="http://home.comcast.net/~acbfp/newintro.html"><img src="http://home.comcast.net/~acbfp/bwbanner.jpg" align="right" border="0"></a>Some jottings about the news<br><br>
.يا رب يسوع المسيح ابن اللّه الحيّ إرحمني أنا الخاطئThe young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comBlogger5000125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-1344755356164677632009-11-09T00:00:00.000-05:002009-11-09T00:00:00.485-05:00Derb on mixing it upFrom TakiThe young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-69437698158333286872009-11-08T19:32:00.000-05:002009-11-08T19:32:47.065-05:00From Fr Dan Martins Ecclesiology, part I. Ecclesiology, part II. What I am attempting to enunciate here is a Catholic ecclesiology, which consistently asserts that the Church is in every way (phenomenologically, theologically, and ontologically) prior to the Believer. Ecclesiology, part III. The visible church. Loving the saints.The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-89395766053670183502009-11-08T09:03:00.004-05:002009-11-08T09:17:18.037-05:00Ecclesiastical bibs and bobs An Eastern Curé d’Ars, a little-known priest of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church. As you can see from the painting they’re the most traditional/least self-latinised of their bigger churches. (The tiny Russian Catholic Church is the same way.) Arguably extra-liturgical devotion to the Blessed Sacrament is a latinisation but of course there’s no theological (as opposedThe young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-41024649179447571032009-11-08T07:55:00.000-05:002009-11-08T07:55:14.961-05:00Rage fuelled by greedMy God, how the money rolls in. From here.According to Abby Johnson, the non-profit was struggling under the weight of a tough economy, and changing its business model from one that pushed prevention to one that focused on abortion.“It seemed like maybe that’s not what a lot of people were believing any more because that’s not where the money was. The money wasn’t in family The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-35753529559923276302009-11-07T11:49:00.000-05:002009-11-07T11:49:40.957-05:00All I can say about Fort HoodIs God have mercy on him and may they rest in peace. So far all I’m seeing in my usual Web haunts are ‘it’s the government’s fault’, which could be true but that seems too pat, and the nativists of course in full hue and cry (‘serves us right for letting in those people’ — that isn’t me).The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-76851573652540213702009-11-07T11:28:00.001-05:002009-11-07T11:28:29.223-05:00The evil empirePaul Craig Roberts at CounterPunchThe young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-13399596375815509072009-11-07T11:20:00.002-05:002009-11-07T11:21:41.527-05:00Revolution’s eveFrom the LRC blogThe young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-6810337833049652002009-11-07T11:11:00.002-05:002009-11-07T11:23:01.559-05:00A week of RR Sprawling US base in Afghanistan is bursting at the seams. Manufacturing felons. Obama keeps Cuba embargo. Mess with the ’Net as it is, it will simply morph into something else. That’s a very, very, very good thing. And just not fair at all. Some things are worth fighting for, Iraq, Afghanistan and Israel not being among them for Americans. True but of course the Soviets won WWII, The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-2751146499156160472009-11-06T12:03:00.002-05:002009-11-07T11:26:06.377-05:00From Rod Dreher Babies start learning their mother’s language in the womb. I’d read that everybody is programmed with all the possible language sounds but you eventually narrow that down to the language you hear and thus learn. Also kids pick up languages and accents very easily, a window that changes to the brain close at puberty. Which is why I know perfectly bilingual people (who speak EnglishThe young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-69773623335627524452009-11-06T11:41:00.001-05:002009-11-06T11:41:42.040-05:00Owen White on Franky SchaefferBelieve it or not I’m not a fan of the religious right either (I’m a secular liberal; secular not secularist and a classical liberal) but joining the enemy is not the way to show itThe young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-14412554931434430592009-11-06T11:09:00.000-05:002009-11-06T11:09:08.415-05:00From T1:9 The mainline: ‘the human community’ just isn’t interested. Old Catholics. Boffins on the Beeb: good news for curmudgeons which I’ll graduate to being in seven years dropping the young in YF.The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-11022753570208237272009-11-06T09:38:00.001-05:002009-11-06T09:41:22.333-05:00Sorry, MadPriest, but you’re wrongMore anti-Romanism from the left. Nice Mid-Western (ex-)Episcopalians who happen to agree with the Catholic faith on not wanting gay weddings in their churches ≠ a pagan-revival fascist government rounding up, torturing and murdering Jews. Pius XII was in a bind: when he spoke out more, the Nazis killed more. The Deputy is fiction.The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-79307857168318807702009-11-06T08:33:00.001-05:002009-11-06T08:34:22.526-05:00A look at Anglican-RC relations over the centuriesFrom Fr ChadwickThe young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-65753984020580205062009-11-05T12:07:00.007-05:002009-11-05T12:47:48.207-05:00Ecclesiastical bibs and bobs The first yes to the Pope’s offer to Anglo-Catholics comes not from FiF (a reason why not, which of course the liberals love to bring up), whom I still think are the main intended beneficiaries of this, but from the British churches in TAC (longtime former Anglicans). The Continuum is largely American; the Brits have never cottoned to it (but a reason given was that The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-3331106409634899662009-11-05T02:47:00.002-05:002009-11-05T02:53:46.257-05:00Why liberals hate us“As most of you already know, Czech President Václav Klaus is the only thing standing between freedom-loving Europeans and the full implementation of the Lisbon Treaty.”Liberal seeks a cleansing of conservatives (me!) from Canada, part 8,627.“Liberals would prefer no opposition. Behind the force field of political correctness, there should never be any disagreement once the The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-90717141913398480522009-11-05T02:20:00.001-05:002009-11-05T02:25:09.483-05:00If there’s one thing gay activists love, it’s public moneyThat is, other people’s money. Do what you want but don’t use the state to step on my religious liberty as you correctly accuse conservatives of trying to do. From Damian Thompson.The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-84674083196217782542009-11-05T01:51:00.009-05:002009-11-05T23:00:02.573-05:00Anti-RomanismThe anti-Semitism of the left Sellout ex-RCs: the Archbishop of New York takes down Maureen O’Dowd. Disloyal RC priests, British version: the Magic Circle. The Protestant rabble: Fr Ray Blake on Guy Fawkes Day (Bonfire Night) in one Sussex town. Scratch a granola and find an old WASP bigot: Chris Johnson smacks down some Episcopalian who’s upset at Pope Benedict even though his offerThe young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-19382796999532914872009-11-05T01:23:00.000-05:002009-11-05T01:23:23.461-05:00If Facebook and MySpace mergedOh, the humanityThe young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-42675130102703475142009-11-05T00:03:00.000-05:002009-11-05T02:23:43.229-05:00From Taki ‘Mad Men’ is a sort of Brideshead Revisited for heterosexual American grown-ups. The Karzai brothers should probably read up on the fate of the Diem brothers. Whither the alternative right? More. I’m with Paul not culture-warriors or race-baiters. Twilight of the godless. Richert on Dawkins.The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-80256865065674538702009-11-04T19:42:00.001-05:002009-11-04T19:42:17.819-05:00We do not question Catholic truth because we are showing the world our true humilityRather we are actually exposing our pride. G.K. Chesterton via Jeffrey Steel.The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-70756436274412379042009-11-04T13:51:00.000-05:002009-11-04T13:51:41.945-05:00Starved into the armyFrom LRCThe young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-18977238689366841752009-11-04T07:02:00.002-05:002009-11-04T07:22:08.266-05:00From Mark Shea It’s a little known point in our theologically illiterate culture, but the church does not regard the question of God’s existence as a matter of “faith”. His existence can be known, according to the church, by the light of natural reason and it doesn’t require “faith” so much as unhindered common sense to get that far. Prayer is not necessarily worship in the modern sense and in The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-45548766944376318502009-11-03T12:48:00.001-05:002009-11-03T12:50:33.465-05:00Today’s Philly Daily NewsBrilliantThe young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-55136191602384576892009-11-03T09:13:00.000-05:002009-11-03T09:13:25.858-05:00Ecclesiastical bibs and bobs The 1950s legitimate liturgical movement re-enacted at Norcia (Nursia), home of St Benedict. Of course I like the baroqueness of much of TNLM (the big blog of church porn: ‘I kid because I love’) but this is ’50s cool. Catholicism need not be ostentatious. The Abbot of Grottaferrata reminds me of my priest visiting Clem’s and that the ’50s litniks were really The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721507.post-66528765873870468032009-11-03T08:16:00.000-05:002009-11-03T08:16:13.467-05:00From LRC Ron Paul on H1N1, the president himself not trusting the government, Afghanistan and Iran. The worst is yet to come. Paul says government meddling will cause a depression. Flash bastard. Boring in politics may be a virtue. Most Swiss can’t name their federal president, yet Switzerland runs like a... Swiss watch. Maybe a competent plodder is just what Europe needs. It certainly does not The young fogeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.com