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Now read what Roger Kimball (one of America’s top public intellectuals) has to say about Soros on his blog:
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Fr. Peter-Michael Preble has this article published recently on Ethics Daily. Fr. Peter blogs at Shepherd of Souls, and Fr. Peter-Michael Preble. He hosts the Shepherd of Souls podcast on Ancient Faith Radio.
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I have a Scripture reading system in which I read first from the Gospels and then from the Epistles. I read this as well as a selection of Psalms every day.
One day I came across a section of St. Paul’s letter to the Romans (13:1-7), and it caused me to pause and really think about it. What are our duties to the state?
According to Paul, we have the following obligations:
1. Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities
2. Whoever resists authority resists the ordinance of God
3. Those who resist will bring judgment upon themselves
4. Do what is good and you will have praise
5. You must be subject
6. Pay taxes
7. Render therefore to all their due
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Finally the resistance is starting. Note the final paragraphs. Cardinal George Pell is the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sydney. Emphasis mine.
By + Cardinal George Pell, Archbishop of Sydney, 29 August 2010
Democracy is alive and well in Australia. Democratic processes are robust and generally followed with good humour.
I voted at Sydney Town Hall, taking whatever cards were offered. One Sex Party volunteer ignored me politely and resolutely although their next distributor smiled and said that I probably didn’t need their material. I cheerfully agreed. Afterwards I went to say a prayer in St. Andrew’s Cathedral, which I do once in a while, but it was closed.
The electioneering was a long, hard and often negative slog and many were tired of it by the end. To the dismay of the commentariat both leaders, formidable politicians, avoided catastrophe and were well matched.
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Nat Henthoff is a “liberal” in the real sense of the term. He is strongly committed to the dignity of the individual, human rights, and constitutional freedom. He draws from the great tradition of Western democratic ideals; the recognition that human dignity and freedom are sacrosanct and the foundation of law and policy. Henthoff is a clear thinker, his principles are sound and coherent, and he maintains a fierce independence that has won the trust and respect of readers across the cultural divides, including mine. He represents what reasoned, tolerant, and honest discourse — what liberalism used to be before it got hijacked by the radical left — is all about. (Read the second to the last paragraph. That’s how the man has conducted his professional career.)
Source: Real Clear Politics
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The angry national debate over Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf’s intention to build a mosque two blocks north of the horror of 9/11 at Ground Zero has been further fueled by supporter Nancy Pelosi declaring, “I join those who have called for looking into how … this opposition to the mosque is being funded.”
If one of her sleuths knocks on my door, this opponent will readily state that I need no outside funding as a reporter who is deeply investigating the motivation of Imam Rauf’s choice of this site of mass murder for the mosque. I will add that, of course, all American Muslims have their First Amendment right to exercise their freedom of religion in their place of worship. There have been other mosques in New York City built without opposition. That freedom is not at stake here.
As for Rauf’s inflammable site choice, however, one of a growing number of construction workers pledging they will not work on this mosque (New York Daily News, Aug. 20), Dave Kaiser, a blaster, explains:
“I wouldn’t work there, especially after I found out about what the imam said about U.S. policy being responsible for 9/11.”
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“New York state and its Port Authority officials need to hang their heads in shame,” says George Patsourakos, on his blog Theology and Society. Patsourakos, a regular commentator on the AOI blog writes:
The September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center — attacks by extremist Muslims — resulted in the deaths of thousands of innocent Americans. Nevertheless, New York state and Port Authority officials are seriously considering building a mosque at this very site. To even consider having a mosque at this site shows a heartless and unsympathetic attitude and disrespect by these officials toward the innocent victims who were killed there on 9/11 by Muslim terrorists. Having a mosque at Ground Zero is a very similar situation to having a Nazi Monument next to the Holocaust Museum. Both of these ideas should be put to rest, because they are an insult to their victims.
Meanwhile, New York officials have shown little or no interest in rebuilding St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church — a 300-member church that was destroyed in the 9/11 attacks. The World Trade Center site’s owner says a deal to help rebuild St. Nicholas Church was offered and rejected by leaders of the church, over money and other issues.
Read the entire post on the Theology and Society blog.
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