A big red Hello! to anyone visiting from Catholic and Enjoying it! and also to anyone from the Red Ensign Blogs. And thanks to Mark and Nick for helping me to gain a wee bit of attention.
This is my first attempt at blogging, so I'd love to hear your comments and suggestions.
I am a Canadian guy who completed the R.C.I.A. program this past spring and I am awaiting, along with my wife, the results of an annulment tribunal. As new Catholics to be, we are interested, motivated, and a bit unsure about all of the details of our faith. So we read and we share with the blogosphere.
This blog is the more political and philosophical one, my wife's, Doxology, is more personal. Make yourselves at home... and don't forget to bookmark us.
Ecce Homo I haven't done a quote from Pope Ratzinger's Introduction to Chistianty in a while and even though I have finished the book there are still one or two passages I want to share, including - perhaps even especially - this one. When I first began to look over what Christianity teaches, to look at the gospel story and to try penetrate why it has been so compelling to so many for so long, this was one of the things that leapt out at me. I was happy to see our Pope confirm it. Expanding on the Apostles Creed where it says "... suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried," Ratzinger writes: The fact that when the perfectly just man appeared he was crucified, delivered up by justice to death, tells us pitilessly who man is: Thou art such, man, that thou canst not bear the just man - that he who simply loves becomes a fool, a scourged criminal, an outcast. Thou art such because, unjust thyself, thou dost always need the injustice of the n...
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