ZENIT had an interesting article about the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe and how there is no scientific explanation for it. It includes a story of how it was copied onto similar material and stored under similar conditions but the copy faded and disintegrated within eight years — unlike the 400-something years the image has remained intact.
News Clips: August 2009 Archives
Part of me is glad that the Catholic Church is not receiving this kind of attention, and part of me is upset that we haven't merited it. It pertains to the opposition the efforts the Mormon Church marshaled in favor of the marriage amendment to the California constitution. I find the tenor of this article forboding. Of course it's a hatchet job, but it seems to me it's an especially insidious one. Gay right activists are portrayed in favor of Truth, Justice, and the American Way, and the Mormon church is portrayed as defensive and almost embarrassed. This is not two political forces locked in combat, this is the righteous forces of Civil Rights cornering the 2000s equivalent of segregationalists. I fear it will only get worse.
I wonder if the person who said "civil rights have nothing to do with religious principles" would think that the Reverend Martin Luther King would share that opinion, or even the abolitionists and suffragettes.
Pro-life former senator Rick Santorum is said to be testing the presidential waters in Iowa. I think he would prove to be an excellent candidate and I look forward to seeing how this all turns out.
