‘God’-awful OWS mob steals sacred item from church: New York Post
At West Park, Rev. Brashear walked into the church for a morning service to find the 18-inch-diameter bronze basin and lid missing from the baptismal font’s 800-pound base. Holy water — straight from the River Jordan — had been poured from the missing basin insert into the base’s bowl.
This Presbyterian Church had been hosting 60 Occupy Wall Street protesters each night.
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Patrick Sweeney at 6:12 PM
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Biblical blunder at White House briefing: AP
"I believe the phrase from the Bible is, `The Lord helps those who help themselves,'" [Jay] Carney [White House spokesman] said.
Attention must be paid to ignorance at this level.
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Patrick Sweeney at 10:16 PM
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Michelle Obama 'Distressed' About Power Held in IL by 'White Irish Catholic' Families: Chicago Sun-Times
When Michelle Obama worked in Mayor Daley's City Hall in the early 1990s, she was "distressed" by how a small group of "white Irish Catholic" families -- the Daleys, the Hynes and the Madigans -- "locked up" power in Illinois.
She must have forgotten Harold Washington, the African-American mayor of Chicago from 1983 to 1987. He died at the start of his second term.
I will see if other how Catholic blogs cover this as I contemplate restarting this blog.
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Towards Reforming the International Financial and Monetary Systems in the Context of Global Public Authority
by Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, Mario Toso
You can google "Caesaropapism" or "Catholic monarchists" and see the deep roots of this: a theme throughout Christian is to put faith in princes [Ps 146:3] who have the power of the sword, and not in the appeal of the Gospel to people sitting in pews through the power of the word for voluntary offering. There's nothing in Mt 28:19, the commission given by Christ to the Church about banking.
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Patrick Sweeney at 10:44 PM
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