History of Roman Catholicism in France: Roman Catholicism in France, French Wars of Religion, St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, Dechristianisation of France during the French Revolution
The New Liturgical Movement (Free subscription) | yesterday
Some thirty years ago, evangelical Christianity threw itself heavily into the business of marketing itself with a series of hip slogans such as "I Found It" (a stranger is supposed to ask what this means, thereby opening an opportunity to share the Gospel). Along the same lines, there was the Good News Bible with a newspaper-theme cover. More recently there has been the WWJD campaign. Dozens...
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | yesterday
As if we needed more proof that Christians are the only group left in America that it’s safe to make fun of. A popular YouTube video purports to be an ad for a Wii-like game system called “ Mass: We Pray, ” which will be available at Easter 2010. In reality, the anti-religious video is a commercial for a new video game. In it, viewers see a family at home a s a saccharine-voiced...
Wendy Williams. The Queen of All Media (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Really? We have no words.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Pope Benedict tries to bridge the gulf between Catholicism and the arts by gathering 250 of the world's leading artists, musicians, architects and sculptors at the Sistine Chapel.
Archbishop Cranmer (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Cranmer never thought he would write that, but credit where it’s due. The Archbishop of Canterbury appears to have (re-)discovered a (slight) Protestant streak, even if his rebuke to Pope Benedict was cushioned with ecumenical pleasantries, concealed by conciliatory overtures and couched in some of his trademark dense theological verbiage. His speech/lecture/sermon/six theses , that he nailed...
auntie joanna writes (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
...at a screening of a new DVD on just this theme. Aimed specially at the young, but everyone is welcome. "Arise once more" sets out the steps for an authentic revival of Catholicism in Britain. Beginning with the early arrival of Christianity in Britain, this film takes you on a tour of Catholic history, through the Medieval period and the Reformation, the Second Spring, the Modern Crisis,...
Free Market Mojo (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
We identify the marginal effect of religious identity on economic choices by measuring how laboratory subjects’ choices change when their religious identity is made salient to them. We find that Protestantism increases contributions to public goods, and there is suggestive evidence that it increases reciprocity in a labor market gift-exchange game. Catholicism decreases contributions to public...
Pope Benedict XVI Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Catholic World News November 20, 2009 During a visit to Argentina, Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, the longtime personal secretary to Pope John Paul II, said that the next step toward beatification of the late Pontiff was up to Pope Benedict XVI. "We do not want the Pope to rush, he should analyze it properly," the Polish cardinal said. His words seemed to provide indirect confirmation of recent...
Time (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
The Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams heads to Rome a month after the Vatican outlined new procedures designed to help disaffected conservative Anglicans enter the Roman Catholic Church
Unenlightened Commentary. (Free subscription) | yesterday
No, but I wanted to use the phrase "Scarlet Whore of Babylon" and link to this post about Von Rumpoy's deeply held Roman Catholicism which appears to influence his political outlook strongly.
Standing on My Head (Free subscription) | yesterday
It's been observed that the gap between the Anglican Church and Catholicism is not wide but deep. The Archbishop of Canterbury's speech at the Gregorian Pontifical University uncovered the real depth of the divide. The Archbishop defended women's ordination and argued that more unites the two churches than divides them. He said issuess that are not of the 'first order' should not be points of division...
The Lead (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
John Allen blogs on National Catholic Reporter about the myopia of both his Roman Catholic tradition and many Christians in deciding what really matters to the ordinary faithful. He compares our way of understanding the religious world to the way...
Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | yesterday
Andrew Carey writes in the Church of England Newspaper: The Church of England is giving up no sacred principle by offering the most generous provision to traditionalist Anglicans, so why is it so reluctant to do so? Some Anglicans never wanted to give any quarter to traditionalists in the first place. They opposed the Act of [...]
The Observer (Free subscription) | yesterday
Converts to Rome cannot pick and choose, says Vincent Nichols, as Rowan Williams and pope prepare to meet Anglicans should not become Catholic to protest against female clergy or sexual ethics, the archbishop of Westminster said today, as he warned traditionalists against adopting a "pick and choose" approach to the religion. The Most Rev Vincent Nichols, the most senior Catholic in England...
Wonkette (Free subscription) | yesterday
Death, it has been omnipresent this annum. Most humans have expired. This datum is known by Mme. Peggington Noonington, a prosemonger famous to children, and regal oligarch wordsmith for the Wall Street Journal banking pamphlet. Peggington did not faceth the Grim Reaper this year. For someone who was born in 1820’s London, in the actual [...] United States - Wall Street Journal - Google - New...
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