Jason Hayes has posted the latest Red Ensign at Musing. This is getting to be quite a big job and he's done a very fine roundup. So head on over- and bring your friends.
The Red Ensign group are conservative and libertarian Canadian bloggers who are united in their desire to see Canada return to the larger and more muscular stance it had on the world stage until about the mid 20th Century. It was about then that mostly Liberal governments introduced 'peacekeeping' and 'multilateralism', and began the gutting of our military, to the point that our disaster relief team has no independent air lift capability and were sloooow off the ground in getting to Asia for Tsunami relief. In short, the Ensign is worth supporting!
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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