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This is not an effective way to argue against someone who has questioned your religion’s relationship to violence: From a Daily Mail story. These are Muslims in Indian burning an effigy of the Pope. Because, you know, questioned using religion to justify violence. But Britain’s Ramadhan Foundation, a youth organisation based in Rochdale, reacted angrily…

Another irony is that during this week in which Muslim outrage finds a new object, Oriani Fallaci has died, after a long battle with cancer. Michelle Malkins provides a tribute and links The vicar apostolic in Anatolia responds Fr. Lombardi of the Vatican Press Office explains: In a statement signed by the director of the…

The Pope is due to visit Turkey at the end of November. Pray for him.

Raise your hand if you’re tired of Muslim "outrage." First, in case you’re very late to the party, here is the English text, from the Vatican website, of the Pope’s address to the faculty at the Univeristy of Regensburg. (Here are texts of most of the other talks for the trip, in English, German and…

Some reports: Philadelphia Inquirer: Decrying a climate of "fear" and division in the nation, Casey called for a renewed commitment to the "common good" and for political leadership that demands shared sacrifice in order to achieve it. "We must recommit ourselves to affirming the human dignity of every individual," Casey said, outlining a political philosophy…

Dayton’s Theology on Tap had one of their speakers cancel, and asked me to do a last-minute fill-in. So, sure. September 28, 7:30 Oregon Express (336 E. 5th St., Dayton, OH) It will be a bit about DVC, more about finding faith in great Catholic fiction. Books for sale, too.

I’ve been trying to embed video on this page for ages, but could never swing the simple copy-and-paste "embed" code thing. It never worked. I think this does. It’s an ad for an expensive lager, Stella Artois – information here on the making of the ad It stars a rather famous Polish actor whose bio…

The Professor on the Pope’s Regensburg lecture: Yet, to see this speech solely in terms of a clash of civilizations between Christianity and Islam would be error. Instead, the Pope is staking out a set of claims about the relationshiop of man and God that stand in opposition not only to the Islam of Ibn…

Philip Yancey in Christianity Today: • Resiliency. The West tends to view Africa as the news portrays it: a relentless succession of disasters. Africans themselves, however, go about their lives with survival skills honed over time. After several centuries of evisceration by slave traders and several more centuries of exploitation through colonialism, most of Africa…

John Thavis of CNS: In talks in Munich and Regensburg, the pope developed a central message of his trip: that in a world where religions and cultures risk colliding, Christians must make sure their faith is firm and is reflected in their own culture. Other religions, he said, do not see a threat to their…
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