Call me a traditionalist, orthodox fuddy duddy if you want, but I'm certain there's a better way to interest people (especially kids) in the Bible than pictures of lego men.
Thoughts on sex that are actually worth thinking.
Dennis Mangan's blog seems to get better all the time. If you haven't yet, you ought.
Despite being an interesting and thoughtful writer, I'm afraid this guy has no sense of humour.
Finally, Fred suggests we do away with universal suffrage.
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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