Monthly Archives: January 2010

Conversion Testimony

Besides being lazy (sloth being my besetting sin), the main reason I don’t post a conversion testimony is that there are many already that say better what I’d say - for example Richard Neuhaus, Scott Hahn, Douglas Farrow, Pam Forrester … Continue reading

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TAC’s 2007 Petition

From Christian Campbell: Laudetur Jesus Christus! Now that the CDF has responded formally to each of the TAC bishops and vicars general, Archbishop Hepworth has released the full text of the October 2007 Portsmouth Letter, the Petition by which the … Continue reading

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Bipartisan Bloat

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Sacred, Beautiful & Universal

SACRED, BEAUTIFUL, & UNIVERSAL: Colloquium XIX

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Lutheran Confession

I recently learned that Lutherans, at least some Lutherans, have retained private confession (from Internet Monk posting): This will probably come as a shock to many of our readers, but the Lutherans retained the use of private confession, (as in … Continue reading

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Friday’s Flannery

On this Respect Life week, and having just come back from the March for Life rally in Washington, the article on Flannery O’Connor’s story A Stroke of Good Fortune at the Black Cordelias blog is particularly interesting. The article and … Continue reading

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The Audacity of the State

One of my favorite writers on Church/State issues, Douglas Farrow writes in Touchstone about The Audacity of the State, from which I quote a part: . . . The Erastianism which (to speak anachronistically) had long been trying to get … Continue reading

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