Showing posts with label catholic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label catholic. Show all posts
Sunday, 3 March 2013

Evelyn Waugh: 'In a more civilised age Hans Kung would have been burnt'

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Hans Kung (shouldn't it be Kueng?) describes himself as the harshest critic of Pope Benedict XVI and sums up Benedict XVI's recor...
Sunday, 16 December 2012

Edward Norman on modern religion

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Time to repost some wonderfully good quotations from the great Edward Norman, my favourite living historian and religious commentator. I wi...
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Wednesday, 12 December 2012

Books read and films seen this year of grace 2012

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The High Window*, Raymond Chandler The Long Goodbye*, Raymond Chandler Muhammad, Karen Armstrong Stalingrad, Anthony Beevor  Defying H...
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Monday, 22 October 2012

Do we know anything about Muhammad or the origins of Islam?

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I am reading Tom Holland's book In the Shadow of the Sword which I should probably not have bought had I taken the time to look throug...
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Sunday, 21 October 2012

Quotations

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Every major question in history is a religious question. Hilaire Belloc “What threatens democracy today? ...First, there is the inabi...
Saturday, 13 October 2012

Enoch Powell told me the time to start worrying ...

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His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk, Major Archbishop of Kyiv-Halyč, Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. Enoch Powell told me ...
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Charles Moore is one of the greatest living Englishmen

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Charles Moore today in the Daily Telegraph: The concept of life itself has warped. People who go white with rage at the idea of any...
Thursday, 11 October 2012

America is no longer a Protestant country

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Two enormously significant milestones in 24 hours for the U.S.A.  First, America is no longer a Protestant country . The end of an old so...
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