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Archive for December, 2009

What Does it Declare?

Posted in Spirituality of the Church, tagged , , on December 15, 2009 | 20 Comments »

(The following was originally posted at Front Porch Republic on December 11th.)
The Manhattan Declaration is almost a month old and it still a statement I regard with great ambivalence.  My discomfort owes partly to the name.  As a native of Southeastern Pennsylvania and a fan of Philadelphia’s college and professional sports teams, I am congenitally [...]

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Thomists and Calvinists Together?

Posted in Uncategorized on December 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Well lets not over-realize the eschaton.  Nonetheless, I thought this excellent comment from reader Matt should be highlighted as its own post.
Matt writes:
“This is a great conversation. I have always hoped to be able to have a conversation about justification with interlocutors who were aware of the diversity of views within Catholicism on soteriological matters. [...]

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Going Green at Christmas

Posted in Uncategorized on December 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Good news- real Christmas Trees are greener than those ugly, pre-lit, recycled coke bottle contraptions that they try to convince us are  Christmas Trees.
Turns out that the Chellis family has gone green… well bluish green… with a stately blue spruce in our living room and a little Charley Brown blue spruce on the third floor. [...]

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