Daily Archives: 15/04/2011

Quote of the week: Archbishop Diarmuid Martin on the “sentimentalism” of Irish-Americans

‘I have no feeling for Irish-Americanism.  I don’t understand it . . . American sentimentalism for a country they don’t know, it’s not my dish.’ ~ Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin

Posted in Quote of the Day

State-enforced secularism in Britain driving Christians to civil disobedience

400-yard traditional Good Friday parade banned by town-hall bureaucrats Every year the Christians from different churches get together to march a 400-yard route to celebrate Easter.  But this year their Good Friday parade has been banned – because it breaches health and … Continue reading

Posted in Secularism

Pic of the day: St. George and the Dragon, a woodcut by Eric Gill from 1917

Posted in Visual Arts

Don’t forget: it’s the End of the World on May 21st.!

Citing Bible, group insists Jesus is returning May 21 On that day, Keitt says, a great earthquake will roll across the Earth.  The dead will be spit out of their tombs, and Jesus will arrive to take “the elect” with … Continue reading

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Good news story of the day: “rabid, angry, in-your-face atheist” converts to Christianity

Catholic to Atheist Then Back to Christianity It’s VERY HARD.  There isn’t a day that goes by in which the thought “it was so much easier before” hasn’t crossed my mind.  Becoming a Christian didn’t make my life better.  It made … Continue reading

Posted in Atheism