“This holy martyr, St. Robert Barnes”

[Today is the recommended day in Treasury of Daily Prayer to remember Robert Barnes, Confessor and Martyr]
Preserve, O Lord, Your honor,/the bold blasphemer smite;/ Convince, convert, enlighten/The souls in error’s night./Reveal Your will, dear Savior,/To all who dwell below,/Great light of all the living,/That all Your name may know. (“Preserve Your Word, O Savior” [LSB [...]

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“‘This is the faith we were taught’”

“You see, everything went wrong last year at Nicaea.  It was terribly important.  I don’t exactly know why.  [Pope] Sylvester isn’t interested in that sort of thing.  He didn’t even trouble to go himself, just sent deputies, and they were of no help.  You see, none of the Western bishops have got a new idea [...]

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We Will See More of These

This is probably not the first time, but I guarantee it won’t be the last.  Apparently freedom of conscience only applies when you want to kill a child.
Timotheos

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More on Doubt

What exactly is doubt?  And how is it related to faith?  People who like to play games with words and where straw men are built in every paragraph for the sheer joy of dismantling them, have an interesting conception of doubt.  That is, the “true believer” should doubt everything and allow all sorts of things [...]

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Fish on Eagleton on Ditchkins

God Talk
God Talk, Part 2
And just for the fun of it, here’s an hilarious take-down of the fanciful Dawkins, one part of the mythical Ditchkins.
Timotheos

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