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Author Archives: Andrew Stuttaford
Coming to a Pulpit Near You?
Cross-posted on the Corner The Guardian, excited: [C]an Francis achieve a feat that has so far eluded secular powers and inspire decisive action on climate change? It looks as if he will give it a go. In 2015, the pope … Continue reading
Christmas
Captain A. D. Chater, 2nd Batallion, Gordon Highlanders, Dec 25, 1914: I think I have seen today one of the most extraordinary sights that anyone has ever seen. About 10 o’clock this morning I was peeping over the parapet when … Continue reading
Against Sauron, Mini-Skirts and Alien/Devil Confusion
Take some superstition, throw in a hint of xenophobia and add a savvy PR touch… USA Today: MOSCOW — Russian fans of the writer J.R.R. Tolkien were disappointed Wednesday after a local art group abandoned plans to install a flaming … Continue reading
Posted in Church & State, politics, Religion
Tagged Russia, Russian Orthodoxy, superstition, Vsevolod Chaplin
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Feeding the Seven Billion
Late last month there was a conference in Rome organized by the UN food agency (FAO) and World Health Organization (WHO). One of the attendees was the pope. The Daily Mail reports: The 77-year old said the world had ‘paid … Continue reading
Posted in politics, Religion
Tagged Pope Francis, Religious Left
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The Pope Goes To Strasbourg
Pope Francis gave a speech at the EU parliament last week. There were the usual leftist themes that we have come to expect from this pope (“we encounter certain rather selfish lifestyles, marked by an opulence which is no longer … Continue reading
Posted in politics
Tagged conspiracy theories, EU, Immigration, Natalism, Peronism, Pope Francis
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For Remembrance Sunday
When the Welsh poet Edward Thomas (1898-1917), who had signed up for the British Army in 1915, was asked what he would be fighting for, he stopped, picked up a pinch of earth and crumbled it between finger and thumb … Continue reading
Brittany Maynard’s Choice
Brittany Maynard died tragically young, but with dignity and in as much control as an unkind fate had allowed her, taking advantage of the law in Oregon that allowed her to obtain a prescription for the barbiturates that would end … Continue reading