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August 08, 2006
"Separation of church and news media"
Christopher Johnson's ingenious solution to passages like this, found in a recent newspaper article:
The irony is, Catholicism was part of the Episcopal Church before a split in the 1500s.
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Comments
A couple of others at MCJ had the same thought that I did - someone's been getting her history from Sellar & Yeatman :).
Posted by: Sonetka at Aug 8, 2006 2:56:53 AM
The comments to that article were pretty funny. I liked (Spock mode) pain...PAIN.
But as for a journalist getting something that basic wrong... too early in the morning for a reponse something like that deserves.
Posted by: Mary Kay at Aug 8, 2006 5:58:28 AM
I cannot recommend enough the book "A Song for Nagasaki" by Fr Paul Glynn. Fr Glynn himself is such an inspiration, as is Takashi Nagai! Let me quote some of the blurb for the book.
...Toward the end of 1945 Paul Glynn was finishing high school at Woodland College in Lismore (country Austratlia) when a remarkable Old Boy appeared - AIF Padre Lionel Marsden, just home from three and a half years as a prisoner of war in Changi and on the Burma Railway. Young Glynn, impressed when the Padre said he was going to Japan to begin a mission of reconciliation, went off for eight years of study to become a Marist Priest. In 1955, Fr Glynn joined the Marist mission, started by Padre Marsden, and spent the next 21 years in Japan...
Fr Glynn has written a fantastic book & you'll never look at WWII, Japan or anything the same again!
Posted by: karal at Aug 8, 2006 7:29:14 AM
Interesting discussion on a Protestant blog about "Looking to the Ancient Church", in fact, to the church before the split between East and West. The commenters just can't bring themselves to call what they are looking at by its rightful name - "Catholic".
It's as if they want to canibalize Catholic prayers, breviaries, writings, etc. etc. without acknowledging it. Or are they really that uninformed about church history and where these things come from?
http://bryansherwood.com/blog/2006/07/27/looking-to-the-ancient-church/
Posted by: Julia at Aug 8, 2006 2:02:02 PM
The irony is, Britain was part of the United States before a split in the 1770s.
The irony is, the Democratic Party was part of Ronald Reagan before a split in the 1940s.
The irony is, the Beatles was part of Paul McCartney and Wings before a split in the 1970s.
Posted by: Blind Squirrel at Aug 8, 2006 5:34:54 PM
Blind Squirrel, you nailed it. :)
Posted by: Mary Kay at Aug 8, 2006 7:27:37 PM
I f you wish to be dumbstruck, it's tough to beat MCJ.
Posted by: Ed the Roman at Aug 9, 2006 12:33:44 PM
