"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine
The next time someone tells you that “Religion is the cause of all the war in the world”, I’d invite you to point them at the statistics below which compare the atrocities perpetrated by theists to atheists.
To be clear, this in no way excuses the abuse of religion as an excuse to perpetrate evil, but hopefully it should provide a little bit of perspective…
Don’t like modern songs? Wish that it could be like the good ol’ days? Well, the contemporary song by Marty Haugen, Gather Us In, has been translated into Latin…
In my earlier series on dating the discussion regularly came back to the subject of communication. Here’s Mark Hart to help us out:
This is one of my new favourite websites, The Catholic Gentleman:
Make a good confession, not a boring one…
This last month has been barmy. I’ve been to Seattle, San Francisco, Palm Beach, as well as a Cursillo retreat. Life has been far to busy, to put it mildly. As such, I’ve kinda dropped the ball on Halloween…
Several of my friends have been sharing Why we don’t celebrate Halloween posts on Facebook. I had planned to write a blog post explaining why I celebrate Halloween, but all I’ve managed to do is post a couple of comments on one such blog.
So, rather than let this holiday pass unmentioned, I thought I would provide a few links to a few websites which offer the other side of the debate:
O most wonderful Great Pumpkin! * Thou didst promise to travel the earth each year on All Hallow’s Eve to seek out the most sincere pumpkin patch. * And thou didst promise wondrous presents to children over the earth * if they wouldst be good and wait on thee. * This year we ask thee to consider the sincerity of the pumpkin patch of Linus, * for he hast waited patiently upon thee for over forty years. * If thou doth deny our petition to see Linus’ pumpkin patch as truly sincere, * thou might find thyself served up as a pumpkin pie.