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Steven Waldman of Beliefnet compares Harry Potter and Left Behind Finally, they both have a theology. It’s not, as one might expect, that Left Behind is Christian and Harry Potter pagan, but rather that Left Behind is Protestant and Harry Potter is Catholic. One of the chief theological arguments between Catholics and Protestants has been…

A Loyola Chicago prof looks at the appeal Loyola University Chicago recently held an excellent panel discussion on The Passion. A Bible scholar critiqued the film’s historical and scriptural accuracy; a Jewish professor responded to the film’s alleged anti-Semitism; and two doctoral students in theology—an Evangelical Christian minister and a Catholic laywoman—offered their own thoughts.…

to Bishop Sheridan’s letter from the ground At another parish, the Rev. Stephen Siebert got kudos and concern when he brought up the topic in his Sunday sermon at Holy Family Catholic Church, 4380 Utica St. in Denver. He told parishioners that he plans to reprint Sheridan’s entire letter in the church bulletin. “I’m doing…

LOC trying to build a university in NY A proposal to build a 3,000-student Catholic university in Thornwood drew more than 110 residents to a Planning Board meeting at Town Hall last night. The Legion of Christ, a conservative Roman Catholic order, has applied for permission to construct a $200 million school on a 165-acre…

Paisley’s church targets priests The North’s Free Presbyterian church has announced plans to send letters and CDs to 3,000 Catholic priests in Ireland in an effort to convert them. DUP leader Ian Paisley, who founded the church, believes Catholicism is idolatry, that the mass is blasphemy and that the Pope is the anti-Christ. Speaking about…

Dreher in the DMN, on hearing a pro-life homily: After this Sunday’s Mass, I thanked the priest for his words, and told him I wanted to praise him in print. He kindly asked me not to, explaining that it could only get him in trouble with his bishop. I understood. I’ve known good priests to…

Newsweek magazine…. Jenkins and LaHaye As a reader says, “an odd puff piece” on the pair. And it is rather puffy- nary a serious critique of the books’ theology or literary quality, only this: The other principal critique comes from some of Jenkins’s and LaHaye’s fellow Christians, who find the books more interested in God’s…

Barb Nicolosi finds time to blog on her trip to Spain. Great stuff. Amusing – Valencia….Sidewalks and streets paved with pinkish brown marble. In some places weathered and cracked, but, damn, it’s still marble. I watched some workman in the city center laying down shiny new marble sidewalks that looked like they should have been…

The folks at Opus Dei sent me these interesting bytes about DVC – my, my, my…. Jason Kaufman, editor of the novel, quoted in the New York Daily News, Sept. 4, 2003: “Nothing is made up in Dan’s research,” he says. “He’s a student of this stuff.” Jason Kaufman quoted in the Boston Globe, May…

Bishops agree to audit A committee of Catholic bishops and a lay National Review Board agreed Monday on a proposal to audit U.S. dioceses to help keep more children from being sexually abused by priests. The accord, agreed to during a meeting in Chicago, appeared to end months of acrimony between the bishops and the…
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