The Roman Catholic Church condemns the Novatian doctrine as well.

Not a good omen for the so-called “Reformation”.

I like your Rule #27. The Spectator (oddly, for a magazine that is largely written and edited by scions of recusant houses) went a bit funny a few years back, publishing repeated denunciations of [the] European Union conspiracy by one of those quasi-British-Israelist Tory Anglicans who can’t seem to tell the difference between the Thirty-Nine Articles and The Thirty-Nine Steps.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article3517050.ece

Courtesy of Drudge

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/03/10/eavatican110.xml&CMP=ILC-mostviewedbox

The UK’s Telegraph says the Vatican is warning that using plastic bags will get you sent to hell.

… and I was stunned, since I thought I’d got past all that with JPII’s phenomenological teachings on our teleology.

So go easy on the British journalist, many Catholics are just as confused, if not more so. And we’re the vincibly ignorant – so escatalogically/soteriologically speaking we’ll be judged more harshly as the “irresponsible” ones for not educating our own and helping the world get a better grasp on their invincible ignorance as regards justification by faith alone….

P.S. Am I only one that sees a Buddha-like Christ pointing with his ordopotaka mudra at Nirvana enlightment over that Altar? Didn’t Augustine say something already about Mani dancing his light-fantastic? Perhaps that’s why the Nestorians lost it on their trek across the Steppe – the Buddhists had better iconographers – they just acculturized all those 6th C AD cave murals with a little gnostic imagination (like Luther’s “mental conviction”) and voila:

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a saintly Tocharian Christogram greeting

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( ICXC four letters of IeCus XriCtus in Greek, index finger is erect, thumb crosses to touch fourth digit. leaving second digit and pinky slightly relaxed and curved) got muddied into a manichean mudra… ?

P.P.S. The architects may have got their jollies with all that fancy boat-building-metaphorical-lumberjack technology but their ain’t much light yet in that there Cathedral in Californa – didn’t some Goth invent flying buttresses to let the light in through windows? Or go ask the Turks for the plans to that old piles of stones called the Hagia Sophia… its a real sensation in the best sense of that word, not sensationalist like this American saccharine confection.

Sorry for the harsh tone, but as a scientist I resent it when we don’t use science in the service of awe and wonder the way we could if we recognised the objective sense of “elenchos” as proof, and were not so easily satisfied with our own subjective opinions… so that our newer cathedrals look like some poor imitation of a Disney Wilderness Lodge
http://www.themeparks.com/library/albums/wdw/wdwdining/normal_whispering-canyon-08.jpg

instead of a Threshold to Heaven

He is merely studying Luther, again, to try and take the good from his writings. Luther did have a lot of good stuff in his writings. Polemical, yes, but good theology, much of it.

On the other hand, many Catholics have made a caricature of Luther and if the Pope can correct some of our mistakes, then I think that is an admirable goal.