Bookworm on Dec 22 2007 | Filed under: Christians, England, Religion
Bloody Mary — or Mary I, her more official title — was Henry VIII’s oldest daughter by his first wife, Catherine of Aragon. Raised by staunchly Catholic parents, she too was staunchly Catholic. By the time she was about 16, however, Henry VIII was troubled by Catherine’s inability to bear a son (because [...]
Bookworm on Nov 08 2007 | Filed under: Christians, Religion
I have no comment to make about this, but I nevertheless find it interesting:
Tony Blair is to become a Roman Catholic within weeks.
The former prime minister will be received into his new church in a mass at the private chapel of Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales.
He [...]
Bookworm on Oct 26 2007 | Filed under: Christians, GBLT, Islam, San Francisco
. . . . a wonderful opinion piece that Cinnamon Stillwell wrote about the San Francisco drag queens dressed as nuns who took Holy Communion, not as an act of faith, but to ridicule the Church. Not only does Cinnamon expose the fundamentally anti-Christian attitude behind this attack on the deepest principles of the Church, [...]
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