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Syndicated by HaloScan http://www.haloscan.com/ http://www.haloscan.com/halolink.gif http://www.haloscan.com/ 88 31 Commenting Powered by HaloScan.com http://www.haloscan.com/comments/acfons/3520821013244627208/?src=hsr#104257 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:32:45 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/acfons/3520821013244627208/?src=hsrs#104257 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/acfons/3520821013244627208/?src=hsrs#104257 Teh funny, indeed. http://www.haloscan.com/comments/acfons/2073144980421926358/?src=hsr#104251 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:52:55 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/acfons/2073144980421926358/?src=hsrs#104251 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/acfons/2073144980421926358/?src=hsrs#104251 This is the sort of thing that would usually outrage liberals, but right now they're too busy fact-checking Palin's book. http://www.haloscan.com/comments/acfons/889787669094642642/?src=hsr#104191 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:29:21 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/acfons/889787669094642642/?src=hsrs#104191 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/acfons/889787669094642642/?src=hsrs#104191 FYI: The LOLariffic billboard was replaced with a Dunkin Donuts advert last week. Sad. Fortunately, The Messiah and the Lame Duck are still proudly visible from the Northeast Corridor Line in Elizabeth. http://www.haloscan.com/comments/acfons/3552296191703139460/?src=hsr#104149 Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:40:26 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/acfons/3552296191703139460/?src=hsrs#104149 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/acfons/3552296191703139460/?src=hsrs#104149 I was struck by the assumption among many of the comments MCJ posted that slavery as an institution was something that first appeared 400 years ago when the Portugese and Spanish showed up on the west coast of Africa. But the Arabs had been at it much longer than that, to say nothing of intra-continental slavery. I might also add that, according to one of my parish priest's homilies, as soon... http://www.haloscan.com/comments/acfons/4970279621107212601/?src=hsr#104136 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:42:59 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/acfons/4970279621107212601/?src=hsrs#104136 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/acfons/4970279621107212601/?src=hsrs#104136 My thoughts exactly. Sad. And condescending. http://www.haloscan.com/comments/acfons/599534973859740839/?src=hsr#104128 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:54:42 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/acfons/599534973859740839/?src=hsrs#104128 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/acfons/599534973859740839/?src=hsrs#104128 Can God create a congressman so heavy even He can't lift him? http://www.haloscan.com/comments/acfons/5891870264728198828/?src=hsr#104099 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:58:39 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/acfons/5891870264728198828/?src=hsrs#104099 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/acfons/5891870264728198828/?src=hsrs#104099 Oh, I'm well aware of his lefty leanings and wasn't necessarily recommending his work, just citing it. Nevertheless, his Cranmer bio and history of the Reformation are remarkable achievements (if overlong for this attention-challenged baby boomer). http://www.haloscan.com/comments/acfons/5891870264728198828/?src=hsr#104097 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:08:21 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/acfons/5891870264728198828/?src=hsrs#104097 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/acfons/5891870264728198828/?src=hsrs#104097 Thanx for the author recommendation. However, as the old Chinese expression goes ...before drinking from the well, consider the source of the water. After Googling him I got this recent write up on him: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/6495955/Diarmaid-MacCulloch-on-his-new-series-A-History-of-Christianity.html Based on this, it sounds like he's more of a Karen Armstron... http://www.haloscan.com/comments/acfons/5891870264728198828/?src=hsr#104085 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:30:17 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/acfons/5891870264728198828/?src=hsrs#104085 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/acfons/5891870264728198828/?src=hsrs#104085 Diarmaid Maculloch has written on the good state of repair the English Catholic Church was in at the dawn of the Reformation: generally free from corruption and blessed with competent clergy; not at all like Germany. Also ironic, it may well be those returning Anglicans who take part in a much needed housecleaning of the present Catholic Church, in England and the United States. http://www.haloscan.com/comments/acfons/5891870264728198828/?src=hsr#104083 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:00:52 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/acfons/5891870264728198828/?src=hsrs#104083 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/acfons/5891870264728198828/?src=hsrs#104083 All this TAC talk got me going back to the books, and the Boigraphies of St. John Fisher, St Thomas More, et. al., and a thought came to me How wonderful God is, and how he can take our bad, and like an artist turn it in to good. Also, how he loves irony. Case in point, it was the pride of Henry Tudor that rent England from the Body of Christ (read Eamon Duffy or J. J. Scarisbrick and see h...