The Pope I like best is Kiril I. But Pope Kiril is a fictional pontiff in Morris West’s “Shoes of the Fisherman” “Shoes” was made into a movie in the late 1960s with Anthony Quinn very convincing in the lead role (Think of all the roles Quinn has played since then!) and Leo McKern as the papabile who lost [...]
Jesus Christ: a great man utterly devalued by a human “institution”
November 5, 2008 By 44 Comments
You know what, gentlemen? There is a simple question on the assertion that the Church provides credible moral leadership that we seem to sheepishly skirt: Where is this “credibility” derived from? The only coherent (albeit, pained) proposal seems to come from Jeg who suggests (and assumes everyone agrees) that moral/ethical ascendancy is not derived from [...]
“Moral depravity” and the primitivist mind
September 16, 2008 By 47 Comments
I beg to differ slightly to what Bencard says here: just because laws are constantly violated doesn’t mean they are unnecessary, rape, sexual assault, incest, etc. will always be committed – so is murder,robbery, etc., but the laws punishing them are by no means “futile”. Whilst laws against sexual assault are definitely necessary, there is [...]
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