Catholic Blog: To Some, Katrina Was Mission Accomplished
WAS Katrina a man-made storm for profits?" asked Michael Shore, a contributor at the Web site Rense.com, a few days after the hurricane had all but obliterated New Orleans and its environs. "Just about every human being is totally unaware that technology exists now whereby weather can be used as a weapon of mass destruction." It's all part of a "hideous agenda," Mr. Shore wrote, to gain "total control of...
Catholic Blog: The Guardian: What the weblogs said about ... the new pope
Quicker than you could say habemus papam , debate about the election of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as Pope Benedict XVI - aka Benny, aka B16 - swept the blogosphere. "The liberal cafeteria Catholic's worst nightmare has come true," wrote Philip Blosser of Cardinal Ratzinger's victory at his pblosser.blogspot.com (a finalist in the "Catholic blog awards 2005 - most intellectual", no less). "The Panzerkardinal, the...
Catholic Blog: A special blessing
Kneeling before Cardinal Joseph Alois Ratzinger on the floor of Saint Peter’s Basilica, John A. Sistare could not have known that the hand ordaining him as a deacon would one day wear the Fisherman’s Ring – the official seal of the pope.Lifting his head, Sistare joined hands with the German cardinal and swore to a promise of obedience before Ratzinger handed him a bound copy of the Book of the Gospels. Later, Ratzinger would hug Sistare as a customary...