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Good site on Humanae Vitae

Folks, this is the year of the 40th anniversary of Humanae Vitae, the encyclical by Pope Paul VI of blessed memory regarding human life which dealt, among other issues, with artificial contraception...

Started in Vivificat! • 9 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: defense of marriage, moral issues, family and society
Comments widget restored...again

Folks, I've restored the "Recent Comments" widget again. I hope that the new template will prove impervious from that enerving tendency that the Haloscan widget has of pushing the right margin off, a...

Started in Vivificat! • 9 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: admin notes, blogs and blogging
My library now on Google

Folks, I've also decided to share 182 of the books I own on Google My Library. I've added a link to the left sidebar to that effect, which is this link. Although I continue to display the...

Started in Vivificat! • 9 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: admin notes
Who is Jesus of Nazareth for us?

Michael E. MillerBelief in Christ concerns our whole life and does not draw us out of history into a private salvation history, but connects us more deeply and unavoidably with the others around us....

Started in Vivificat! • 10 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: reflections, enlightened words, lent
Chávez's Empty Revolution

Folks, the latest issue of Foreign Affairs contains an article authored by Francisco Rodríguez, a former highly-placed economist in Venezuela's National Assembly and Hugo Chávez's team, titled An...

Started in Vivificat! • 10 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: news commentary, latin america, foreign policy
Catholic-Muslim Forum established

Folks, this, according to the Catholic News Service:Vatican, Muslim representatives establish Catholic-Muslim ForumBy Cindy WoodenCatholic News ServiceVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Representatives of the...

Started in Vivificat! • 10 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: news commentary, islam, interfaith issues, war and peace, papacy
Lent Meditation: Death and Life

by Father Nicolas Schwizer Many Lenten texts invite us to see death face to face. I think that at one time or another, we have all had to mourn the death of a relative or a friend. There are probably...

Started in Vivificat! • 10 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: fr. n. schwizer, reflections, lent, schoenstatt
Someone teach this man some logic

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,in his recent visit to Iraq, stated that "No one likes them [Americans]," according to CNN and other news outlets. Now that's a categorical statement that can be...

Started in Vivificat! • 10 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: news commentary, war and peace, foreign policy
Anticatholic megapastor endorses McCain

So did Rudy Giulianni, a lapsed Catholic. Folks, it is already a matter of public knowledge that Pastor John Hagee of San Antonio, TX, endorsed Senator John McCain’s bid to become the Republican...

Started in Vivificat! • 10 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: news commentary, anti-catholicism, moral issues, politics
WIlliam Buckley, Jr. (1925-2008)

Tonight I note the passing of William Buckley, Jr, dean of American conservatives and a formidable writer and communicator. Buckley also was a practicing Catholic.He was easy to disagree with but...

Started in Vivificat! • 10 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: news commentary, obituaries