New Oxford Notes: March 2015
"Islam Has a Problem"
Bobby Jindal, the two-term governor of Louisiana, said in a highly publicized speech in London that "Islam has a problem." He continued, "religion that allows and endorses killing those who oppose it is not a religion at all," but "a terrorist movement."
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Losing the Liberals
As we mark the two-year anniversary of Jorge Bergoglio's election to the papacy, the extended honeymoon period with liberal Catholics that he enjoyed is coming to a bitter close.
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We are told Speyr's books are for "meditation and adoration," not for the "use" of the scholarly. This is a false dichotomy. Speyr is not canonized, after all.
While he lived, from first novel to last, he enjoyed an immense audience, an international audience drawn from all classes, including the royal family.