So How Do They Pick a Pope Anyway?:
An explanation in nifty graphic form.
(Via Catholic and Enjoying It!.)
Latin, f., daybook, diary; journal.
In the prime of my life and looking forward to my second childhood...
Translating the “catholics For Choice” statement about Pope Benedict:
When Pope Benedict announced his abdication, the heretical “catholics for Choice” issued a statement. I didn’t want to sully my hands with it but someone else got out the little plastic bag and did the dirty work.
At the blog Acts of the Ashpostasy, we find a little parsing of their statement. Holding your nose helps a little.
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5 (secular) reasons not to live together before marriage:
One interesting aspect of undergoing a dramatic conversion as an adult is that it's given me the opportunity to be deeply immersed in two rather different cultures. Up until my mid-20s, I was very much a part of post-Christian secular culture. Then my husband and I changed our religious beliefs, and though we're still in touch with many of our old friends, we've increasingly found ourselves in social circles where most people are religious.
Read the whole thing.
(Via New Advent.)
5 (secular) reasons not to live together before marriage:
One interesting aspect of undergoing a dramatic conversion as an adult is that it's given me the opportunity to be deeply immersed in two rather different cultures. Up until my mid-20s, I was very much a part of post-Christian secular culture. Then my husband and I changed our religious beliefs, and though we're still in touch with many of our old friends, we've increasingly found ourselves in social circles where most people are religious.
Read the whole thing.
(Via New Advent.)
The 12 cognitive biases that prevent you from being rational:
The human brain is capable of 1016 processes per second, which makes it far more powerful than any computer currently in existence. But that doesn't mean our brains don't have major limitations. The lowly calculator can do math thousands of times better than we can, and our memories are often less than useless — plus, we're subject to cognitive biases, those annoying glitches in our thinking that cause us to make questionable decisions and reach erroneous conclusions. Here are a dozen of the most common and pernicious cognitive biases that you need to know about.
Read the whole thing.
(Via New Advent.)
The 12 cognitive biases that prevent you from being rational:
The human brain is capable of 1016 processes per second, which makes it far more powerful than any computer currently in existence. But that doesn't mean our brains don't have major limitations. The lowly calculator can do math thousands of times better than we can, and our memories are often less than useless — plus, we're subject to cognitive biases, those annoying glitches in our thinking that cause us to make questionable decisions and reach erroneous conclusions. Here are a dozen of the most common and pernicious cognitive biases that you need to know about.
Read the whole thing.
(Via New Advent.)
Dialogue between Christ and a Muslim:
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(Via SoCon Or Bust.)
Dialogue between Christ and a Muslim:
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(Via SoCon Or Bust.)
Philosophical Folklore and the Reification Fallacy:
Among the many things worth studying, one of the most interesting is what I call ‘philosophical folklore’. Folklore, of course, consists of micro-traditions passed down within communities as part of the ordinary ways of life of the people in those communities. We usually think of these micro-traditions as artistic, but much folklore is philosophical in character. Studying this kind of folklore, often fascinating in its own right, can be quite illuminating.
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(Via First Thoughts.)
It is time for the evangelists of unbelief to give up the nonsense that the figure at the heart of Christianity may have never even lived.
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(Via First Links.)