Real Clear Religion

WILL THE LORD LITERALLY SHORTEN THE DAYS

gen@realclearreligion.com — 2010-02-27T16:34:29-08:00

An earthquake can make Earth rotate faster by nudging some of its mass closer to the planet's axis, just as ice skaters can speed up their spins by pulling in their arms.

THE LATIN MASS IS MORE MERITORIOUS AND EFFICACIOUS THAN THE NOVUS ORDO

gen@realclearreligion.com — 2009-12-23T10:45:32-08:00

Since the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is an act of the Church, the moral status of the priest does not increase or decrease the value of the Mass in this respect.13 Nicholas Gihr observes that it is because of the essential mark of holiness that the prayers and gestures of the Mass that the Church offers by means of the hands of the priest are always viewed favorably by God.14 The faithful can always take comfort in knowing that even if the priest and other faithful at a particular Mass are not holy, they can still derive fruit from the Mass based upon the holiness of the Church.

HOMESCHOOLING IS NOT THE IDEAL CATHOLIC EDUCATION

gen@realclearreligion.com — 2009-10-08T10:19:03-07:00

Of course, by this I do not mean something so simple as the "socialization" of students, which critics of homeschooling often throw at us -- the old argument that if John and Mary do not have an opportunity to eat bologna sandwiches on the playground with 300 students and talk about Hannah Montana, they will grow up to be social deviants.

MORE EVIDENCE OF THE COMMUNIST INFILTRATION OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

gen@realclearreligion.com — 2009-08-29T16:43:37-07:00

Koehler personally confronts several of them; the aged traitors usually excuse their interactions with secret policemen as involuntary, although records of lavish lunches and generous cash allowances granted to such men by their handlers cast doubt on their alibis.

AMAZING WITNESS FOR JESUS AND AGAINST THE EVILS OF ISLAM

gen@realclearreligion.com — 2009-08-12T10:19:36-07:00

OBAMA LOOKING FOR SNITCHES

gen@realclearreligion.com — 2009-08-05T16:00:46-07:00

If you get an e-mail or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov," the Obama web site says.

POSSESSED TRANSEXUAL ATTACKS PRIEST DURING MASS

gen@realclearreligion.com — 2009-07-29T16:45:29-07:00

Milan, Italy, Jul 29, 2009 / 04:12 pm (CNA).- Police in Milan detained a Brazilian transsexual on Sunday after he stripped naked in front of the altar during Mass and began to attack the priest who was presiding over the Mass.

THE DEATH OF CULTURE

gen@realclearreligion.com — 2009-07-21T15:21:49-07:00

If we pray, He will certainly lend us help, mainly in the form of fortitude (provided we discipline ourselves) and wisdom (if we seek it), but if He was ever inclined suddenly to stop using men as His instruments for the unfolding of history as He has designed it, He would surely have done so in some age when there were a lot more saints around than we see today when it is a Michael Jackson who commands the world’s adulation.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL BANS CRUCIFIX BUT PERMITS SIKH JEWELRY

gen@realclearreligion.com — 2009-07-02T06:21:29-07:00

From Dailymail: "A school told a child to remove a Christian cross she was wearing even though it lets Sikh children wear bangles as part of their religion.

DAWKINS STARTS ATHEIST KID'S CAMP

gen@realclearreligion.com — 2009-06-28T21:24:48-07:00

The author of The God Delusion is helping to launch Britain’s first summer retreat for non-believers, where children will have lessons in evolution and sing along to John Lennon’s Imagine.

HOW ABORTION AND RELATIVISM LEAD TO ANARCHY

gen@realclearreligion.com — 2009-06-23T21:24:56-07:00

"CALVIN'S MECCA": JOHN CALVIN GETS AN ISLAMIC MAKEOVER

gen@realclearreligion.com — 2009-06-15T21:18:56-07:00

The sculpture is ironic considering Calvin and the Reformers ultimately ushered in the relativism that has destroyed Europe's ability to discern good from evil and truth from a lie...

U.K. BOYS TO GET CONDOM CREDIT CARDS

gen@realclearreligion.com — 2009-06-07T20:53:47-07:00

She added: 'We know that most under 16-year-olds are not having sex, but these schemes are providing them with context and access to service so that when they are ready to have sex, they do so safely.

OBAMA'S GULAG PLANS EXPOSED BY LIBERAL

gen@realclearreligion.com — 2009-06-03T10:14:05-07:00

BOY CHOSEN BY DALAI LAMA TO BE REINCARNATED LEADER REJECTS BUDDHIST ORDER

gen@realclearreligion.com — 2009-06-03T07:28:54-07:00

But the boy chosen by the Dalai Lama as a reincarnation of a spiritual leader has caused consternation – and some embarrassment – for Tibetan Buddhists by turning his back on the order that had such high hopes for him.

CENSORING PRO-LIFE TRUTHS

gen@realclearreligion.com — 2009-06-02T14:32:38-07:00

"But some supporters of abortion rights have long argued that the language used by opponents — with terms such as murder, blood-stained, destroy or holocaust frequently evoked — create an atmosphere that fosters violence."

BECOME AN APOSTLE OF THE END TIMES

gen@realclearreligion.com — 2009-05-31T15:57:39-07:00

"These great [consecrated] souls, full of grace and zeal shall be chosen to match themselves against the enemies of God, who shall rage on all sides; and they shall be singularily devout to our Blessed Lady, illuminated by her light, strengthened with her nourishment, led by her spirit, supported by her arm and sheltered under her protection, so that they shall fight with one hand and build with the other."

"POPULAR PRIEST" FATHER CUTIE CONVERTS TO THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH

gen@realclearreligion.com — 2009-05-28T17:04:23-07:00

“For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put Him to an open shame.”

ANTI-CHRISTIAN BIGOTRY OVERTAKING THE U.K.

gen@realclearreligion.com — 2009-05-26T20:47:26-07:00

The course organiser, Leicestershire and Rutland Organisation for the Relief of Suffering, then sent a report to Mr Rao's employer, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, where he had worked as a bank staff nurse for four years.

PRAVDA: "THE AMERICAN DESCENT INTO MARXISM IS HAPPENING WITH BREATH TAKING SPEED"

gen@realclearreligion.com — 2009-05-22T09:00:53-07:00

Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different "branches and denominations" were for the most part little more then Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more then happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the "winning" side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another.

GEERT WILDERS LOSES BID TO STOP HATE SPEECH TRIAL

gen@realclearreligion.com — 2009-05-20T21:25:39-07:00

Lawyers for Wilders had sought to overturn a ruling by the Amsterdam Court of Appeals in January that he should be prosecuted for a series of public anti- Muslim statements, particularly for comparing Islam to Nazism.

ISLAMIC GROUPS WANT SHARIA LAW IN GERMANY

gen@realclearreligion.com — 2009-05-19T16:38:24-07:00

The secular relativists will predictably capitulate to the demands for a parallel society which grants Muslims their own rule of law because they are unable and unwilling to discern between good and evil, and refuse to condemn that which will destroy them.

THIS IS FAITH!!

gen@realclearreligion.com — 2009-05-18T15:43:23-07:00

GET THEE TO DAILY MASS

gen@realclearreligion.com — 2009-05-11T14:27:39-07:00

If anyone says that the rite of the Roman Church, according to which a part of the canon and the words of consecration are pronounced in a low tone, is to be condemned; or that the mass ought to be celebrated in the vernacular tongue only; or that water ought not to be mixed with the wine that is to be offered in the chalice because it is contrary to the institution of Christ, let him be anathema.

SCOTLAND: HEAD OF HOMOSEXUAL YOUTH GROUP GUILTY OF CHILD SEX ABUSE

gen@realclearreligion.com — 2009-05-07T08:51:02-07:00

27And, in like manner, the men also, leaving the natural use of the women, have burned in their lusts one towards another, men with men working that which is filthy, and receiving in themselves the recompense which was due to their error."