We have a responsibility to share the great riches of our nations with those who have so much less.
Read moreMonth: June 2010
Summer “What We’re Reading” Wednesday
…and of course dozens of board-books for our 14-month old daughter of which Jesus and the Twelve Dude Who Did, telling the story of each of the apostles as their faces stick out into the page, might be of interest to the Pray Tell readership.
Read moreShrinking Conservatives…and Liberals, and Moderates
BeliefNet tells “Why the Conservative Churches are Shrinking” – specifically, the Southern Baptism Convention. Cathy Grossman at USA Today says it’s because allegiance to denominations is weakening.
Read moreThe gates of the netherworld shall not prevail…?
“The Catholic Church is Finished” by Ross Douthat is Idea #9 in The Atlantic’s “14 3/4 Biggest Ideas of the Year. Douthat is a convert to Catholicism and a self-described conservative.
Read moreTotal Bull
In the ring, bulls are regularly sacrificed “in honour of the Virgin Mary, as part of the celebration of a religious festival.”
Read moreJeffrey Tucker’s latest
You perhaps saw that Jeffrey Tucker departed from the NLM team.
Read moreTranslations compared
Here are some samples of collect prayers in various translations, including ICEL 2008.
Read moreBe nice – even at weddings
Vicars in the Church of England are instructed to be more welcoming and allow for a more casual attitude at weddings.
Read moreFinger and a face
Two years ago I committed one of the more heroic acts in my life. I drove in Italy. To locate my valor more precisely, I drove through Pisa to take my family to see “The Leaning Tower Of.” Until that trip, my wife and children did not know my head could rotate so nimbly, or that a Fiat Punto could downshift from fourth to first gear at that rpm, or that the laws of physics could be flexed slightly in the cause of fitting a parking space.
Read moreFragments of Secular Sanctity
Galileo’s relics are to be housed, not in a cathedral, but in a public museum. That is why I am not sure whether this is a story about religion, or about science, or about art. Perhaps it is a story about something else entirely, a curious and half-hidden alternation between the sacred and profane.
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