Blind Faith : Blind Folly

9 mai 2013

"GOOD GRIEF !"

"The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away." Somehow Job sounds better in the King James version than in any of our Catholic translations. That old suffix seems to add dignity, authority, to what in any translation is a totally absurd idea. But when you...

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Tags: God and the death of children, The problem of evil

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9 mai 2013

GODLESS COMMUNISM OR GOD-LOVING TERRORISTS ?

The distinction is one of Christopher Hitchens' most telling slaps in the face not only of religious patriots in the U.S., but also of non-atheists everywhere. Whether or not God is dead - it is difficult to die if you never existed - "Godless Communism"...

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9 mai 2013

"IF YOU WANT TO LEARN TO PRAY, GO TO SEA !"

As a kid, I loved Wind in the Willows, and especially the chapter "Messing About in Boats". I like crossing the Harbour in a ferry from Circular Quay to Manly, "seven miles from Sydney and a thousand miles from care", and even enjoying the few minutes...

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Tags: Prayer in distress

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8 mai 2013

CFBDSIR J21497

It's about the size of Jupiter, so it deserved, like the planets familiar to us, an equally divine name. But no. Being scientists, its baptizers preferred a jumble of letters or figures ("numbers", if you are American). This recently discovered enormous...

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8 mai 2013

HEAVENS ABOVE !

Everything I read about the Universe never fails to amaze me. At nearly four-score and in the Autumn of my years, not only am I still learning about the extraordinary phenomena going on over our heads (in both senses of the phrase), but I react with the...

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Tags: Universe and Religion, Prayer and the weather

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4 mai 2013

GUETTA NOT GARCIA

Error humanum est. Mr Brain Wash is a pseudonym of Thierry GUETTA, not the other guy, a talented imitator to whom I apologize as I do to the inimitable Mr B.W. I always wanted to be Pope Frank the First, but apparently I was not infallible enough.

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4 mai 2013

ARS GRATIA ARTIS ?

I recently came across a movie, "Exit through the Gift Shop", concerning what is known as Street Art, which, like most people, I had dismissed as "graffiti". I have found it deserves its different name. Whatever you think of contemporary "art" and this...

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Tags: Banksy, Street Art and Religion

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28 avril 2013

"DIEU LE VEUT" : "IT IS THE WILL OF GOD"

You might find the French quotation, as I did on Anzac Day in Amiens near the cathedral, on a statue. Though it was originally pronounced by Pope Urban II in 1095 as he launched the First Crusade under the leadership of Godefroy de Bouillon, later King...

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28 avril 2013

I ONCE HAD THE HABIT ...

They say the habit does not the monk make. But as in other professions it does help to be able to distinguish monks from non-monks. Head-gear helps too. You see a hood wearing a hoodie and you get the heebie-jeebies. You see a Friar wearing a capuche,...

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28 avril 2013

DO WE NEED A CREED ?

The National Catholic Reporter of March 31, 2013, carried an article by a professor of the History of Theology at St Louis University, who has honored this blog by posting one of its earliest commentaries. Dr Mark Etling's article was entitled "Time to...

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