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Papal chess
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awelborn
Post from Fr. Z on some Curial moves. Pope-related: ND theology head Professor Lawrence Cunningham’s initial thoughts on Jesus of Nazareth: (1) Ratzinger writes as a theologian in the honorable tradition of the Anselmian ‘faith seeking understanding’ which is to say, he writes as a believer seeking understanding; as a consequence, he writes from the…
Why I could never get a Ph.D
By
awelborn
Well, one of countless reasons..I am so terribly distractable. (I started working on this post on 5/21, btw.) Because being distracted is just so interesting. It first hit me when I was working on my MA thesis at Vanderbilt – an examination of how 19th and early 20th century American Protestants arguing for a greater…
Advantage…who?
By
awelborn
From today’s WSJ on the Russian Orthodox reunion noted earlier this week: From the time when Russia became communist and atheist after 1917, the Church Abroad had sought to be the free voice of Russian Orthodoxy world-wide. Its independence was authorized by the courageous Patriarch Tikhon in 1920, who resisted Communist domination. But in 1927,…
Blogging and Blegging about
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awelborn
Maureen Wittman has observations about a confirmation she attended in the Grand Rapids diocese Reader Lance wonders about the Scalabrini Fathers, who are taking his parish under their wing. Anyone? Reader/seminarian Dennis has a bleg: I’m working on a talk for an adult audience about the Church’s relationship with science, and, in particular, the Galileo…
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