Expecting the worst

I received a bit of advice from a priest, who is somewhat strict and conservative, and had, in the past, suffered greatly for his ways with little support from his bishop (in fact, his bishop wasn’t at all pleased, nor impressed, with his traditional stance).  As he was doing quite fine in his new parish

Presanctified Before the Ages

Frozen Immersion

H/T: BBC News [here]: Russia’s trend for dipping children in frozen rivers By Katia Moskvitch BBC News When an amateur video of a screaming, naked boy being plunged by a priest into an ice hole in Siberia appeared on the web, it caused a massive outcry in the Russian media and blogosphere. The boy appears

Remembering Kristallnacht in Kosovo

“Identity,Reconciliation, and the Struggle over Kosovo” Address at the J. Dennis Hastert Center for Economics,Government and Public Policy at Wheaton College by H.E. Mr. Vuk Jeremić Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia, 17 March 2011 Ladies and Gentlemen, It’s a distinct honor and privilege to be a guest of the Hastert Center,

The Divine Numbering

More from the Old Testament. The following is taken from Origen’s Homilies on Numbers: Homily 1 Number 1:1-54 “Not everyone is worthy of the divine numbering, but those who ought to be compromised within the number of God are designated by certain privileges. 1.1 Now this book that is inscribed “of Numbers”, contain clear proof