Bishop John D’Arcy Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend
“President Obama has recently reaffirmed, and has now placed in public policy, his long-stated unwillingness to hold human life as sacred. While claiming to separate politics from science, he has in fact separated science from ethics and has brought the American government, for the first time in history, into supporting direct destruction of innocent human life.”
“Even as I continue to ponder in prayer these events, which many have found shocking, so must Notre Dame. Indeed, as a Catholic University, Notre Dame must ask itself, if by this decision it has chosen prestige over truth.
Tomorrow, we celebrate as Catholics the moment when our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, became a child in the womb of his most holy mother. Let us ask Our Lady to intercede for the university named in her honor, that it may recommit itself to the primacy of truth over prestige.”
CHARLES COLSON
“As one reporter noted, even when Christians know correct doctrine, they are afraid of speaking the truth for fear of offending others. What right have I to impose my beliefs on others? is a thought that shapes too many of us believers”.
ODDS & ENDS
1. In the Old Testament there are 613 commandments
2. In the New Testament a one commandment lurks and rarely practiced ; foot washing, said explicitly by Jesus found in John 13:14.The prohibition against wearing jewelry in 1 Peter 3:3, which most Christians do not practice today.
3. The Bible was organized into verses in 1551
PROJECTING OUR OWN IDEAS INTO BIBLICAL TEXT
Each semester a theologian administers two part personality questionnaire to his new students. The first part asks students about their view of Jesus. The second part, with slightly different language, asks students about themselves. The result? According the test, Amazingly consistent – “everyone thinks Jesus is like them?”. One might call this the “Rorchach thinkers.”
This Weeks Photo by Ken Lawson
A guy and his dog
