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  • Wow -- What a Rant by "Rage Boy" Chris Hitch Today

    I am perfectly content, really quite happy, about Obama's decision to have this mega-Church author, pastor, and cultural figure, Rick Warren, give the prayer at the January 20th Inauguration of our new United States President. I understand the apoplexy of ''Rage Boy'' Christopher Hitchens at the very thought of a prayer being said, let alone a ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by MichaelBernard3 on December 29, 2008

  • Symbosium on Religious Life at Stonehill

    Stonehill College in Easton, Mass., hosted a ''Symbosium on Religious Life: Reclaiming the Treasure'' Sept. 27 with more than 600 religious attending. Cardinal Rode, the Vatican prefect for religious life, delivered a very tough address, as did a number of speakers. The conference was an attempt to examine what happened in the last 40 years to ...
    Posted to Faith-Based by thealewife on October 15, 2008

  • Well, That's Good News for Dems and Catholics Both

    I did not need to read this article, to take immediate notice when 1) Gov. Casey's Son spoke at the Democratic Convention this year, in contrast to the first Bill Clinton Convention in 1992; and 2) Joe Biden was picked to join this 2008 Ticket with Obama. Both were welcome developments to me, and I have the sensitivities on these pro-Abort ...
    Posted to Faith-Based by MichaelBernard2 on September 1, 2008

  • Popery

    One of my 1st memories, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, was a parish priest preaching a sermon on the Vatican's treaty with Italy's Fasciasts & how it helped the RC' minister to a war torn world. The church was in the Arcdioces of Cincinasty. The Archbishop was an avid analiguist for & to Pius 12. He even named a high school for ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by larry278 on April 14, 2008

  • What in the World is a Ramadan Emblem?

    I've been a Muslim for 17 years and have never heard anyone declare there to be Islamic emblems for Muslim holidays. Thus, there is no sacred or religious emblem or representation of an event (eg. hajj), a practice (eg. daily prayer), or a month (eg. fasting the month of Ramadan). There are no religious emblems for Islam, not even the crescent ...
    Posted to Faith-Based by Usama2 on December 25, 2007