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Here: It occurred to me the other day that the Christian God is not "Great." To say that God is Great ("Allahu Akbhar") is NOT, as it is in Islam, the central tenet of our religion. The Christian God is **Good**. He is the True, the Good, and the Beautiful, as it were. God is…

Much about the murder of this religious sister, member of the Consolation Missionaries, shot in the back on the steps of the hospital in which she served the poor of Somalia. An elderly nun shot four times at the Somali hospital where she worked forgave her killers as she lay dying, colleagues said Monday in…

The question is…what is the real significance of these protests? It is one thing to read articles about a hundred Muslims outside Westminster Cathedral, some riots in Basra, a hundred guys outside the Vatican embassy in Jakarta…here and there, outrage, protests, burning. There are a lot more Muslims than that. To be fair, they are…

An Orthodox Archbishop speaks out: In a scathing attack, barely 48 hours after a Somali Islamic cleric called for Muslims to kill the Pope for his Tuesday utterances, Archbishop Christodoulos told a sermon in Athens that Christians in Africa were suffering at the hands of ‘fanatic Islamists’.

The mysterious and idiocynratic Spengler, who writes for the Asia Times, is characteristically direct, analyzing jihad, saying that it (broadly defined, not simply as "holy war") is essential to Islam: There is no Grace in Islam, no miracle, no expiatory sacrifice, no expression of love for mankind such that each Muslim need not be a…

…in Basra. Group vows war: The statement by an umbrella group led by Iraq’s branch of al Qaeda came after the Pontiff said on Sunday he was deeply sorry Muslims had been offended by his use of a medieval quotation on Islam and holy war. "We tell the worshipper of the cross (the Pope) that…

Pray for little Naomi Coffin, and her family, including blogger Patrick Coffin, as well as all disabled babies and children and their families: Each visit invariably shows us another tiny thing about her to fall in love with, so each time with her becomes more distressing than the previous one. Then there’s the questions from…

Christopher Orlet in the Spectator: THE DIFFICULTY, TO MY mind, is figuring out why the Pope chose to cite this particular quotation from this particular nonentity? Certainly many popes have made similar statements about jihad and Benedict would have had a plethora of popes to quote from. It is therefore instructive to learn more about…

Christopher Blosser of the Benedict Blog reminds us of the speech that Benedict gave in his meeting with Muslims last year in Cologne. It is in this spirit that I turn to you, dear and esteemed Muslim friends, to share my hopes with you and to let you know of my concerns at these particularly…

Terry Teachout posts: Readers interested in the works of G.K. Chesterton will remember that he owned a toy theater about which he wrote on many occasions. The Catholic Lending Library of Hartford is deaccessioning fifteen drawings made by Chesterton (who was also a talented artist) for use in this theater. Here’s the catalogue listing from…
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