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• #1 by Jeffrey Pinyan on June 16, 2010 - 10:06 am

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  I was going to make an inculturation joke, but I see you’ve already gone there.

  Maybe I’m an uncultured white male American, but I think the idea of blood sacrifice of animals to the Blessed Virgin Mary is an absolutely atrocious idea, and will only serve to convince any number of fundamentalist Christians (and others) that the Catholic Church is the whore of Babylon.

  • #2 by Fr. Allan J. McDonald on June 16, 2010 - 10:34 am

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    As I had a seminary professor in the seminary in the ’70’s say, the Church may be a whore, but she’s still your mother! You can’t make these things up!

• #3 by Clarey McInerny on June 17, 2010 - 10:25 am

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  Your professor was quoting St. Augustine.

  • #4 by Fr. Allan J. McDonald on June 17, 2010 - 12:23 pm

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    Thank you Clarey, now I should stop damning the professor! Now that you mention it, he may have said he was quoting St. Augustine, but I don’t recall that, it was back in that drug hazed late 70’s you know.

  • #5 by Jeffrey Pinyan on June 17, 2010 - 1:22 pm

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    City of God, book XXIV, chapter III. Or was it On the Trinity, book IV, chapter XXXI?

    Now I can’t remember.

    • #6 by Jeffrey Pinyan on June 17, 2010 - 3:54 pm

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      Actually, the answer is quite apropos to this blog post.

      Total bull.

• #7 by Roger Evans on June 20, 2010 - 6:18 pm

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  This statement in the original article is at least imprecise and seems to defame the cultures within the Spanish State, by no means insignificant, that detest and oppose bullfighting — like the Catalans, to whom it is entirely foreign:

  “Like baseball in America, bullfighting in Spain might be said to constitute an expression of civil religion, conveying and ritually enshrining the most cherished values of the society in which it is performed.”