January 2012
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Planned Parenthood on Sex-Selection Abortions →
From SBA List
The confusing, contradictory remarks from Planned Parenthood directors were on full display as they celebrated the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. In an interview earlier this week, Angie Murie, executive director of Planned Parenthood Waterloo Region in Canada, was asked about sex-selection abortions.
“I wrestle with gender-based abortion more than any other reason [for having...
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Exciting News!
From February 1st through March 6th, I will be attending Catholic Mass on Sundays. Why the sudden devotion, you ask? Because I will be flying out to Quito, Ecuador to live with my husband’s family for a nice, extended vacation. :) I’m so excited. Even though my husband is not a devout Catholic, his mother has never missed a Sunday as long as he can remember.
It’s exciting to...
Anonymous asked: Hey, I am currently a Catholic Christian. I plan to convert to Orthodox Christianity after studing both traditions. All I want to ask you is if you know any converts on tumblr from Catholicism to Orthodoxy? I know for sure two guys, Andrew and Tom. I don't have an acount on tumblr anymore, that's why I am anonymous. Emma T.
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“When we consider the myriad school shootings that have occurred between ...”
– Michael Kimmel: Men, Masculinity, and the Rape Culture (via mollay)
“Yet the obvious fact that these school killers were all middle-class white boys seems to have escaped the media’s notice, in part because race, class, and gender are only visible when speaking of those who are not privileged...
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badwolfcomplex:
Put Not Your Trust in Princes
I highly recommend reading the whole article.
Excerpt:
Last week, I wrote about the decision of the Northern Illinois Women’s Center to close its doors permanently after 40 years and well in excess of 50,000 abortions—more than a third of the current population of Rockford, Illinois, where the clinic was located. (See When Is a Back Alley...
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Anonymous asked: From my experience, there is not genuine love among the Eastern Rite Catholics and the Western Rite Catholics. Western Rite wants us under their control. They are ironic to us. Not to mention how they treat our orthodox brothers that I wholeheartedly respect.
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Anonymous asked: I'm an Old Catholic (I reject the Pope) and I feel like a brother to all the Protestants because they protested to the equal-to-God position of the Pope. Also I feel like a brother to all the denominations that have been created after the Papacy. Are you a Protestant?
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badwolfcomplex:
The Global War Against Baby Girls
This should be as profoundly disturbing to pro-choicers as pro-lifers. It’s like we pro-life feminists keep saying: women’s rights begin in the womb. Left unprotected, and the female population will be ruthlessly exterminated until there’s just none left.
Selections from the article:
It is by now widely recognized that these...
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In Defense of the Catholic Church Against the Polemics of James Likoudis
cuppboard:
Very interesting post. The author writes:
In this post I shall defend the teaching of the Eastern Catholic Church against the criticism levied by the Roman polemicist James Likoudis, a “convert” from Greek Orthodoxy. This article was published in an arch-traditionalist journal based in St....
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In Defense of the Catholic Church Against the... →
Very interesting post. The author writes:
In this post I shall defend the teaching of the Eastern Catholic Church against the criticism levied by the Roman polemicist James Likoudis, a “convert” from Greek Orthodoxy. This article was published in an arch-traditionalist journal based in St. Paul, The Wanderer, the radicalism of which I have come to dislike despite its old opposition...
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Simply Orthodox ☦: If you’ve been involved in an... →
simplyorthodox:
So there are many, many women, and certainly some Orthodox Christian women, who have this in their past, and they grieve but don’t feel free to talk about it. I would urge anyone in that position to talk with your priest. Believe me, there’s nothing you can say to a priest that he hasn’t heard…
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The future as arrived. Again. →
badwolfcomplex:
It’s not enough that Star Trek anticipated and more than half-inspired modern innovations like floppy disks, overhead medical computer readouts, and cell phones. Now fact is catching up to fiction even faster as scientists take a few large leaps towards developing medical tricorders.
It’s good to live in the future.
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“The widow becomes God’s Exhibit A to teach the world (and his people in...”
– Carolyn Custis-James, The Gospel of Ruth
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“Christians are great pretenders. We tell ourselves it’s not supposed to be...”
– Carolyn Custis-James The Gospel of Ruth
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Intellect & Romance: nikosnature: stoppatriarchy:... →
nikosnature:
stoppatriarchy:
“When a woman is raped, it is the RAPE that is the tragedy. Being able to have an abortion and not be forced to bear her rapists child is a liberating thing! There is nothing to be ashamed or sad about when it comes to abortion. It is a very liberating…
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Not many people I know in real life will...
I had a dream that Disney was making a movie about the Reformation. The main character was a young blonde girl who convinces her grandmother to translate Luther’s 95 Theses into German so she can read them.
The thematic song was “Good Things are Happening in Germany”. It also had a refrain which was “Bad Things are Happening in Germany”.
It was muy bizarre, but...
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Not a wizards’ duel despite all signs to the...
silouan:
A Romanian bishop, right, and a Serbian priest bless the water, marking the Orthodox feast of Theophany on the river Nera, between the two countries of Serbia, left bank, and Romania, near the village of Vračev Gaj, some 50 kilometers (30 miles) northeast of Belgrade, Serbia, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012. AP / Darko Vojinovic
(via Byzantine, Texas)
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Judge may force abortion →
badwolfcomplex:
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catholicknight:
Judge may rule that if she were mentally competent she would chose an abortion?! What happens when we let govt make health care decisions
Abortion advocates return to their roots: eugenics.
“Dana Cody of Life Legal Defense Foundation agreed, “Death should not be a treatment option.” […] However, a court-appointed guardian ad litem found Moe would...
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I believe, O Lord, and I confess
simplyorthodox:
I believe, O Lord, and I confess that Thou art truly the Christ, the Son of the Living God, Who camest into the world to save sinners, of whom I am first.
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My First Visit to an Orthodox Christian Church →
A mormon writes about his first experience at an Orthodox church
As I stood listening and reading along during the Matins service, in the back of my mind I tried to think of the one or two words I would use to describe the experience. The first word that came to mind was “Beautiful”. The richly colored mosaics set against the pure white open space of the Sanctuary, and the melodic sing-chanting...
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The Best Christian Marriage Book You’ve Never... →
From the article:
The couple says the book was born out of a course they’ve taught for years at Eastern University in St. Davids, Pennsylvania. And they say the course has been as much of an education for them as for their students. “Neither of us was really familiar with the large collection of Christian marriage literature out there,” Dwight, a professor of New Testament at Eastern,...
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Anon Asked
Do you believe that Orthodox just don’t want communion with Rome? Or is it something else that is happening?
Hi anon. I hope you don’t mind I edited your question a bit.
This gives me an opportunity to say something I’ve been thinking a lot about. I have immense respect for the Orthodox.
There are a few reasons I believe some Orthodox seem a bit more...
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Maybe I'm missing something but
considering the examples of
Abigail
Ruth
Esther
Deborah
Tamar
Rahab
I think somewhere along the way, many Christians have misplaced the proper way of thinking about women and their mission in God’s Kingdom, instead replacing these amazing examples of God’s daughters with one word - “submission”. And that word is taken out of context, stripped of meaning, and given a...
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Quotes on Ecumenism from an Orthodox Perspective
These quotes were sent to me awhile back, and made me think. I especially found the first intriguing. Any thoughts?
-In matters of ecumenism and especially intercommunion, Rome is Orthodox in her dealings with Protestants, and Protestant in her dealings with Orthodox. If you want to know why Orthodoxy refuses intercommunion with Rome, you might find a hint of the answer in why Rome refuses...
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After Sola Scriptura →
from my blog:
“I’ve come to realize something. After losing sola scriptura, there’s no turning back. You must find authority somewhere. There must be an end-point. If I went backwards to return to my protestant roots, I would be building on the shifting sands of my own scriptural interpretations and I’d know it. It’s one thing to hold your interpretation (or your...
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Ethiopian girl reportedly guarded by lions →
from MSNBC
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — A 12-year-old girl who was abducted and beaten by men trying to force her into a marriage was found being guarded by three lions who apparently had chased off her captors, a policeman said Tuesday.
The girl, missing for a week, had been taken by seven men who wanted to force her to marry one of them, said Sgt. Wondimu Wedajo, speaking by telephone from the...
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The Terrible Weakness of Our God →
The baby lamb is meek and mild, yes, but far more important is this fact: The lamb is ready to die. Other animals struggle as they are being led to the slaughter, but the Sisters spoke of how the baby lamb offers the slaughterer its neck, how it nuzzles the hand of its killer. I watched a few videos of these lamb slaughterings, and they are remarkably heartbreaking affairs.
And yet, this is how...
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Brick Walls →
badwolfcomplex:
I am going to try and tell you what happened to us on January 10, 2012, in the conference room in the Nephrology department at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia….
[Mother]: “So you mean to tell me that as a doctor, you are not recommending the transplant, and when her kidneys fail in six months to a year, you want me to let her die because she is mentally retarded? There is...
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None of us lives free from all delusion
simplyorthodox:
None of us lives free from all delusion – none other than perhaps the greatest saints. But the process of awakening is itself the beginning of the spiritual life. It is the fear of God in the sense used by Fr. Sophrony and in the Scriptures that marks that awakening. Indeed, it begins with believing that there actually is a God, which strangely, is far less common than you...
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“This is what it means to be God’s creature—not to be a self-made, self-standing...”
– Miroslav Volf, Free of Charge (via dmrichmon)
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O Death, where is your sting?
simplyorthodox:
…O Death, where is your sting? O Hell, where is your victory? Christ is risen, and you are overthrown. Christ is risen, and the demons are fallen. Christ is risen, and the angels rejoice. Christ is risen, and life reigns. Christ is risen, and not one dead remains in the grave. For Christ, being risen from the dead, is become the first-fruits of those who have fallen asleep. To...
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Two Interesting Arguments for God: Intelligibility... →
Quoted from Fr. Robert Barron’s Catholicism:
In 1968 a young theology professor at the University of Tübingen formulated a neat argument for God’s existence that owed a good deal to Thomas Aquinas but also drew on more contemporary sources. The theologian’s name was Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI. Ratzinger commences with the observation that finite being, as we...
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Challenging the Pro-Choice Mindset
badwolfcomplex:
Reblogging (with permission) because this is a fantastic example of genuine pro-life thinking, as well as how to respond to loaded and fallacious anti-life questions. I also couldn’t resist adding my own commentary at the bottom. (Sorry for any formatting issues, it gave me a lot of trouble for some reason.)
quietly-living-life asked:
So you think that the life of an unthinking,...
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Aliens and Salvation
badwolfcomplex:
Always a fun topic. Here’s a relevant excerpt from this great Catholic Answers article:
But, as C. S. Lewis points out, corporeal, non-human, created intelligent beings called “extraterrestrials” pose a problem to the faith only if we know the answers to five questions:
Are there creatures on other planets? Answer: We don’t know. We don’t even know if we will ever know.
Do...
inhimthereisnoshadowofturning asked: Hi! You mentioned that you have a hard time with the concept of sola fide. What is that? (Pardon my protestant ignorance)
Anonymous asked: Have you eliminated Eastern (Orthodox) Church? I am asking this because I am eager to convert to Orthodoxy. I've been through all these feelings and doubts you've been through. You are not alone! xxx
Anonymous asked: Hi! I converted from Protestantism to Catholicism two years ago, and it's a long story but if you're interested in hearing it just shoot me a message and I'd love to talk with you! It was the hardest/easiest thing I've ever done, and I have great respect for protestant christianity because it led me to God in the first place. It was hard to leave my church family behind, but...
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Returning, Questions, and Recommended Reading →
So why continue blogging? Not because I have any answers, that’s for sure, but because I still have so many questions, and I need to put them somewhere. One question weighing heavy on me is a piece of Catholic theology that I haven’t been able to embrace: the rejection of sola fide. A lack of understanding, I think, drives my discomfort, like its driven all my misgivings in the past....
Anonymous asked: Heya. how is your Catholicism pondering going? See ya xoxoxo
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