What Child is this who, laid to rest
On Mary’s lap is sleeping?
Whom angels greet with anthems sweet,
While shepherds watch are keeping?
This, this is Christ the King,
Whom shepherds guard and angels sing;
Haste, haste, to bring Him laud,
The Babe, the Son of Mary.
Why lies He in such mean estate,
Where ox and ass are feeding?
Good Christians, fear, for [...]
Archive for December, 2007
24 Dec
Hail, hail the Word made flesh
15 Dec
Liberals clamp down on free speech
News today from the liberal war against hurt feelings.
First of all, Mark Steyn points out the difference between a country with a First Amendment and a country with a “Human Rights Commission”.
Second, the city of Philadelphia seems to think that it’s part of that latter category. Geno’s Steaks is one of the two most popular cheesesteak [...]
4 Dec
The decline of Western civilization, part 32,894,007
From John Derbyshire’s most recent Radio Derb segment:
Here’s a lady who got a bit out of her depth in the Muslim world. Fifty-four year-old Englishwoman Gillian Gibbons was teaching in an elementary school in Khartoum, capital of the Sudan, which has an Islamic government. Ms. Gibbons brought a stuffed teddy bear into her class of [...]
1 Dec
Morality as evidence for God’s existence
From a lecture on God’s Existence by Boston College Prof. Peter Kreeft:
One of the facts that we observe with our interior senses is that we all have a thing called conscience. We all make moral judgments. We all judge not merely that a thing is, but that a thing ought to be or ought not [...]
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