I'll get this stuff sorted out eventually
Blogger is all messed up tonight, so I'm not going to bother creating any more posts only to risk loosing them into the internet netherworlds.
That said, I've got Blogrolling working on the site now, and that means working with my blogroll will be much easier than I'd thought. I think I will wind up copying an idea from my wife and have a list of "daily blogs," a top tier of stuff I read almost every day, and a second list of "blog friends," people whose blogs I like, and who are willing to give me a link in return.
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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