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The Vatican has perhaps been sitting on this story for close to sixty years. Something Pius XII conveniently ignored? Apparently they fo...

Ascension Church Philly - Out of the God Business - October 1, 2012 St Jerome's Parish in northeast Philly must be a great bed an...

I ran into this little bit of unspoken history that the media never touches. She is often referred to as Piux XII's mistress in writi...

FYI Ran into this on the History entertainment channel on another one of those end of the world, Illuminati, New World Order conspiracy in...

I just read an article against Rob Bell by a Pastor Kevin Shrum regarding Bell's upcoming book - Love Wins: Heaven, Hell, and the Fate o...

I have to wonder if the story of Peter denying Jesus three times in all four gospels – if it is not an allegory of sorts. It struck me like ...

It took a long time and many e-mails from a friend to recognize the qualities of this "emerging church" movement thing. It is mor...

The Roman emperor Trajan was mucking about in Mesopotamia trying to annex Armenia. Then, like now, trying to win an impossible winnable land...

 In an attempt to soften his own roots and contributions to recent European history, Joe the Pope aka Joe the Scholar has let the Jews off ...

I have written before about the Jesus Seminar which has made a scholarly attempt to decipher the New Testament. Long story made short, this...

Got an e-mail from my old friend Jesus, a retired dude in Vegas. He thinks that union workers are near the bottom rung socially and econo...

Like the young, I too can learn something about history from the cinema. Ran into a movie about Leo Tolstoy's last days in the film Th...

I gave the devil his due in my previous entry proclaiming Eckhart Tolle as a Secular Prophet. I did stop half way through The Power of Now t...

I am not certain what to make of The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. I question anything especially if it is endorsed by a successful busi...

I lived and worked in Tucson Arizona for close to eight years back in the 1990s. I worked for a short time, 100 yards down the road fro...

This Cultural Christian - Best of 2010 Quaker Cross - a Symbol for Compassion? Who will be the next Pope? John Boehner - a Man of Col...

Prayer for a New Day and a New Year Heavenly Mother, heavenly Father, Holy and blessed is your true name. We pray for your reign of p...

Adam and Ever were the first humans with God given souls or so I was taught in a relaxed modern RC way of looking at ancient history, litera...

I have to suppose that in dealing with the Roman Church, that traditions or rituals that are thousands of years old must outrank ideas from ...

I have been trying to not be too political lately in this blog but this is what is on my mind of late from observation of all things TV and ...

I am using a Year C lectionary for the twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost and the Gospel passage Luke 20:27-38 to scribble a few thoughts....

I have met and know of some remarkable men in my life. The man who baptized me or more accurately the man who was founder and pastor of my...