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Catholic Publisher Owns New Pope's Work, by Kim Curtiss. Associated Press. April 22, 2005. Congratulations to Fr. Fessio and the 13-member staff of Ignatius Press, the United States' "largest publisher and distributor of Catholic books, magazines and videos" -- they've labored hard to publish Cardinal Ratzinger's works in English. Let them now enjoy the fruits of his election.
Romanitas - "An exploration into the deeper meaning and Roman contextualities of speeches, homilies, documents etc. of our Holy Father Benedict XVI and his Curia." From the author who brought you .
How would the New York Times have covered the "election" of Jesus Christ as Messiah? -- The Seventh Age passes along an amusing parody that's been circulating via email.
"PUTTING the smackdown on heresy since 1981!" howls the Ratzinger Fan Club, advertising its T-shirt on the website to which internet searchers for data on the new Pope are automatically referred. It doesn’t need a papal pronouncement to tell Catholics that this celebration of a theology of hatred, anger and zeal for injury is wholly contrary to the teachings of Jesus Christ.
Methinks Mr. Edwards underestimates the humorous side of the RFC and its satirical intent.
Area boy's gift made cardinal laugh, by Shane Anthony. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. April 19, 2005. Interview with Chris Haenel, a fellow 'member' of the RFC, who met the Cardinal and presented him with a shirt during an October 2003 visit to Rome by Una Voce:
Chris, then a freshman at Duchesne High School in St. Charles, already had studied Ratzinger and papal politics. He said he liked Ratzinger's conservative stands on moral issues. He gave Ratzinger a T-shirt he bought from an online fan club.
On the front, it read "The Cardinal Ratzinger Fan Club. Putting the smackdown on heresy since 1981." Ratzinger was head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and combating heresy was part of his job.
Ratzinger laughed at the shirt, Chris said, but said he couldn't keep it because he couldn't be his own fan. When he flipped over the shirt to find a quote attributed to him - "Truth is not determined by a majority vote" - he laughed again and said, "That's true. That's true." Chris still has the shirt.
Amy Welborn has started a StoryBlog, exclusively devoted to her fiction.
St. Augustine and Sola Scriptura by Jamie Blosser in a magnificent refutation of a Protestant exploitation of Augustine to argue for the primacy of scripture against ecclesial tradition.
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