Category: Blog Archive
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Piero A. Tozzi: The New Global Morality: DADT Repeal and Secretary Clinton’s embrace of “Universal Standards”
Apart from from the health care rationing that Obamacare would foster on American citizens, I argue too that the questionable morality of the self-selected administrators of the project would drive policy decisions in directions that violate traditional norms. “Do you really want people like Hillary Clinton or Barbara Boxer making your health care decisions?” I…
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Bartholomew I: We will continue to dialogue with the Pope and Islam
HT: Byzantine TX. Source: Asia News Istanbul (AsiaNews) – On the eve of the holiday season, Bartholomew I delivered a major address before an highly qualified audience from the Orthodox world, defending the Ecumenical Patriarchate’s choice for inter-faith dialogue. “We will insist on dialogue, despite the criticism that we suffer,” he said. “There is, unfortunately,…
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Byzantine Chant for Christmas – Christ is born!
HT: Fr. Andrew Damick If you like Byzantine Chant (I do) you will like the hymn (in Greek) of the Nativity. What’s with that hats? Actually, they are part of the tradition (see icon below the video, bottom left corner). I realize Byzantine Chant is not everyone’s cup of tea, especially in Greek. Still, it’s…
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Michael Barone on the recent election
Occasionally I get emails from readers taking me to task for discussing politics on a “religious” forum. It should not be allowed they argue but obviously I don’t agree. Politics, culture, religion, values, ideas and so forth overlap in critical ways and ignoring this is, at a minimum, a prescription for ignorance. It’s true that…
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New Film: “Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer”
“Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer: Experiencing the Presence of God and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of an Ancient Spirituality” It will be published February 8, 2011 by HarperOne. New York, July 1, 2010 — A little known 2000-year-old Christian prayer, still used by monks and nuns in far away caves and monasteries, is the…