The Eponymous Flower: Graz Professor Demands Death Penalty for Pope

The Eponymous Flower: Graz Professor Demands Death Penalty for Pope: Graz (kath.net) Richard Parncutt, professor of Systematic Musicology at the University of Graz, recently called for the death of Pope Bene...What an intolerant bigot! A hate crime, surely?Authored by Chris HallRelated articles, courtesy of Zemanta: Beyond bizarre: University of Graz music professor calls for skeptic …

Gloomy Sunday

Christians have no right to refuse to work on Sundays, rules judge.Since when did the Judiciary deem themselves fit and proper to define theological matters? The presumptuousness of it!Mr Justice Langstaff, a High Court judge says that Christians have no right to decline working on Sunday as it is not a “core component” of their …

Benedict XVI: The Church supports families and values

Top bloke!Authored by Chris Hall

More Christian Presenters needed on Children’s TV

The BBC have been told to put more Christian presenters on children's TV to 'familiarise' youngsters with different denominations. The study said Christian presenters would 'validate' the feelings of Christian children.  It said this was important for young people in their ' formative years'.BBC children's programmes should include more Catholic, Orthodox and Pentecostal Christians, a …

Happy Birthday Charlie!

My boy is six years old today.When we first saw him with his litter he was the lightest in colour and was the broadest in the beam. How little were we to know how much joy he would bring to our lives and that of our family.Lord may we have many more years with Charlie.Authored …

Violating Secularism

Seems the happy band that make up the assorted temporal League of Militant Atheists are running scared of those Godly people again. So incensed are the zealots by the prayers and supplications of the Institut Civitas that they're thinking of applying to the courts to legally disband them and force them underground.No, it's not China or …

Footprints

Purloined from somewhere on Google+, just had to.Authored by Chris Hall

Bishop Devine goes for Cameron

Top man!...and rightly so.From the Telegraph:Joseph Devine, the Bishop of Motherwell, said he considered the Prime Minister “out of his depth” and Christians cannot trust him given the “contradiction” between his statements on religious matters and his actions.Spot on Bishop Devine. Cameron has proven he will say any old rubbish to hide his real agenda.He …

A Short History of Byzantium – My Review

A Short History Of Byzantium by John Julius NorwichMy rating: 5 of 5 stars If Goodreads rating system went to 10 instead of 5 then I would give this book 9.5. Not because it doesn't deserve 10 but because I'm convinced it cannot be better than the three volumes that this is a condensed version …

Charlie and his liver troubles

A few months ago our beloved Charlie ate his dinner and then promptly threw up. From that point on his ability to eat waned quickly to zero although you could tell in his eyes and face that he was hungry. It was very disconcerting to see this lovely Labrador who adored food trying to eat but being …