What Does The Prayer Really Say? (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
Today I present This editorial was in La Stampa, a Roman daily. The translation is provided by WDTPRS’s good friend Fabrizio Azzola. It is hard to know whether to laugh or cry reading this. My emphases and comments: La Stampa July 22nd 2008 The Pope and Bush [...]
TheGodFearinForum (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
These days I have more and more respect for President Bush. When the heretic Hans Kung came out and blasted him (and Pope Benedict XVI), I feel vindicated for my respect. No, I haven't agreed with everything that Bush did, I was initially against the war in Iraq for the record. But say whatever you like about President Bush, he is a man of courage in an age of cowards. And the cowardly don't like that....
The hermeneutic of continuity (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
It seems to be an evening for reminiscences. Hans Küng was in his heyday in my teenage years. In my first year at the seminary in 1976, everyone was reading "On Being a Christian" and, among a few others, Fr Edward Holloway was valiantly taking him to task in Faith Magazine. It was an unequal battle given the publicity that Küng could command. Then God gave us the internet. In vintage form, the opponent...
