Leo

I just got back from Wuthering Heights. I have to give it the worst possible rating. It is basically an exploration in how thoroughly modernists can ruin a classic. I will never read the book again out of concern it will remind me of that movie.

Colonization is obviously the only truly great thing which Spain has done. And a fleeting thing! —Ibid.

What do people think John XXIII meant when he opened the Council with the words : “The principal aim of this Council is not, therefore, the discussion of one article or another of the fundamental doctrine of the Church… For this a Council was not necessary.” Or when Paul VI closed it with the words “In view of the pastoral nature of the Council, it avoided proclaiming in an extraordinary manner any dogmas carrying the mark of infallibility.” ?

The coming Christian life will reveal itself through its old dogmatic roots. Christianity will once again need to prove itself deliberately as a faith which is not self-evident; it will be forced to distinguish itself more sharply from a dominantly non-Christian ethos. —Guardini

Quoting these popes saying Israel has a right to exist is not an endorsement of zionism, and certainly is not what Prejean SAID: "the biblical prophecy" Wondering what people think of the rabbi saying all who think that are antisemites, seems aggressive

Carrie Prejean Boller: "Catholics do not embrace Zionism" Pope's Benedict and Francis: "Um yes we do"