Pontifications https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/pontifications Catholic Faith and Culture Mon, 27 Aug 2012 18:38:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 More blogs to enjoy!!! https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/pontifications/2012/08/more-blogs-to-enjoy.html https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/pontifications/2012/08/more-blogs-to-enjoy.html#comments Mon, 27 Aug 2012 18:38:01 +0000 http://blog.beliefnet.com/pontifications/?p=1776 Thank you for visiting Pontifications. This blog is no longer being updated. Please enjoy the archives. Here are some other blogs you may also enjoy:

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]]> announces here in her roundup on the site's very successful first 100 days. That means, in short, that I'll have to sign off from blogging here at Beliefnet after nearly a year and a half of a very rewarding time. This was my first opportunity as a...

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]]> https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/pontifications/2009/08/moving-on-and-many-many-thanks.html/feed/ 15 Calvin at 500, Calvinism 2.0 https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/pontifications/2009/07/calvin-at-500-calvinism-20.html https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/pontifications/2009/07/calvin-at-500-calvinism-20.html#comments Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:53:35 +0000 http://blog.beliefnet.com/pontifications/2009/07/calvin-at-500-calvinism-20.html If you thought you knew John Calvin--who turned 500 last week--you probably don't know enough. For example, that he was French, born Jean Cauvin. And if he was in fact scandalized by dancing, he was also a lot more complex than that. I explored the new look Calvin in an essay at PoliticsDaily,

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]]> If you thought you knew John Calvin--who turned 500 last week--you probably don't know enough. For example, that he was French, born Jean Cauvin. And if he was in fact scandalized by dancing, he was also a lot more complex than that. I explored the new look Calvin in an essay at PoliticsDaily,

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]]> https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/pontifications/2009/07/calvin-at-500-calvinism-20.html/feed/ 8 Apologia pro vita sua…Kinda https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/pontifications/2009/07/apologia-pro-vita-suakinda.html https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/pontifications/2009/07/apologia-pro-vita-suakinda.html#comments Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:51:36 +0000 http://blog.beliefnet.com/pontifications/2009/07/apologia-pro-vita-suakinda.html  In my defense, I've had computer outages and family reunions and a few days of single-parenthood, which is always a bracing reminder of what many parents go through all the time.

And this weekend it's off for a week's vacation.

Anyway, hence the long absence. Apologies to those who have checked in faithfully, and I'll try to put up a few of the many interesting items that are out there. And maybe some thoughts about family reunions.

We have a couple of main...

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]]>  In my defense, I've had computer outages and family reunions and a few days of single-parenthood, which is always a bracing reminder of what many parents go through all the time.

And this weekend it's off for a week's vacation.

Anyway, hence the long absence. Apologies to those who have checked in faithfully, and I'll try to put up a few of the many interesting items that are out there. And maybe some thoughts about family reunions.

We have a couple of main...

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Speaking to Vatican Radio, Press Office Director Fr. Federico Lombardi said...

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]]> The first word via Vatican Radio and first image (that I saw) via Rocco:

Speaking to Vatican Radio, Press Office Director Fr. Federico Lombardi said...

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But the meeting at the Vatican this afternoon is fraught for Catholic conservatives in this country, as I explain in this...

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]]> The meeting between the spiritual and political leaders is on shortly. Which one is spiritual, which political? Obama has invoked Jesus more than Bush did, at this point. And with his pointed encyclical on the economy this week, Benedict ruffled some political feathers.

But the meeting at the Vatican this afternoon is fraught for Catholic conservatives in this country, as I explain in this...

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If you had asked me as a young Baptist boy to explain the difference between Protestants and Catholics, I would have said that...

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]]> It is a good question, and an honest question that many may wonder about, both inside and outside the Catholic orbit. I wince at the "social" qualifier," but Joe Carter, a Baptist, poses the questions well at the First Things blog:

If you had asked me as a young Baptist boy to explain the difference between Protestants and Catholics, I would have said that...

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]]> https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/pontifications/2009/07/are-social-encyclicals-binding.html/feed/ 9 Obama’s faith-based administration? https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/pontifications/2009/07/obamas-faith-based-administrat.html https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/pontifications/2009/07/obamas-faith-based-administrat.html#comments Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:33:20 +0000 http://blog.beliefnet.com/pontifications/2009/07/obamas-faith-based-administrat.html The president today nominated Dr. Francis S. Collins as head of the National Institutes of Health. Uh-oh:

There are two basic objections to Dr. Collins. The first is his very public embrace of religion. He wrote a book called "The Language of God," and he has given many talks and interviews in which he described his conversion to Christianity as a 27-year-old medical student. Religion and genetic research...

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]]> The president today nominated Dr. Francis S. Collins as head of the National Institutes of Health. Uh-oh:

There are two basic objections to Dr. Collins. The first is his very public embrace of religion. He wrote a book called "The Language of God," and he has given many talks and interviews in which he described his conversion to Christianity as a 27-year-old medical student. Religion and genetic research...

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