Sign, Faith and Society

The late, great Frederick D. Wilhelmsen:
I take as revealed the following proposition: God wills every man to be saved. I take it as evident that he is more easily saved in a society that buoys himself up in the Faith, that surrounds him with symbols of his salvation. Given that my major premise is evident [...]

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Report: Christians flee Iraq, find Syria ‘ruthless’

From WorldNetDaily:
Christians may be fleeing war-torn Iraq and the fighting Islamic factions there to Syria, but that nation also holds “ruthless” positions against Christianity which range from life in prison for talking about your beliefs to death for a Muslim who converts, according to a ministries working there.
“It’s better than Iraq, but it’s no [...]

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Report: Muslims ask pope to OK worship in ex-mosque

Report from Reuters:
Spanish Muslims said on Tuesday they had appealed to the pope to be allowed to prostrate themselves in worship in Cordoba Cathedral, which was built as a mosque during Spain’s centuries of Islamic rule.
In a letter to Pope Benedict XVI, Spain’s Islamic Board said senior Spanish Catholic clergy had rejected requests for Muslims [...]

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Christendom: God’s beachhead in a rebellious world

Thomas Storck writing in Homiletic and Pastoral Review:
Christendom is sometimes used to mean those countries in which the majority of the population is Christian or at least has Christian traditions, or is used roughly to describe the totality of Christians existing throughout the world. But it really means something much more majestic than this. Christendom [...]

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Daniel-Rops on the origin of Christendom, Part 3

Final part in a three-part series
(Read Part One here).
(Read Part Two here).
The Church, however, was distinct from Christendom; as mistress and teacher she could not be identified with that body which it was her duty to instruct, to guide, and to control. Considered even as the sum total of baptised persons, she must not be [...]

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Report: Extremist landscape in Egypt is where violence takes hold

from The Houston Chronicle:
The old man was already bleeding to death on the pavement outside the Church of the Saints when the attacker with the two daggers turned on Michael Adib and started to slash.
“When he came to kill me, he said: ‘Accept the Prophet Muhammad,” said Adib, a Coptic Christian who had just walked [...]

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Debate: Palestinian Christians and the Wall

Catholic World News: Archbishop of Canterbury denounces wall around Bethlehem
The wall, said Dr. Rowan Williams, represents something “deeply wrong in the human heart.” It symbolizes “the terrible fear of the other, of the stranger, which keeps us all in one kind of prison or another.”
Sunday Times: Archbishop attacks Israel over Bethlehem barrier
THE Archbishop of Canterbury [...]

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Article: The Jihadist Dream to Liberate Spain

From FrontPageMag:
Resembling the combustible suburbs of Paris, Principe is basically off-limits to the National Police and Guardia Civil except in emergency situations or raids because of the risk officers face when entering the town. Recently the local police office and its lone police car were burned. Not only are ambushes of police cars [...]

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Article: Motherless Russia

From LifeSite:
Some think that France will be the first European country in modern times to be taken over by Muslims due to her very large, violent immigrant population and effeminate native populace. Others point to the Netherlands, from which native Dutch people are beginning to flee in the face of hostile Islamism among the [...]

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‘No Heaven for Cowards’ : Lepanto and Our Lady of Victory

7 October 1571 was a Sunday. Mass that day was celebrated throughout the fleet with particular solemnity, since all were well aware that the testing time of battle might be close…
Crucifix in hand, Don John proceeded in a fregata along one wing, to rectify order in the line of battle and hearten the men…. To [...]

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