Author: Brandon Kraft
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why meat followup
From the few e-mails I have been sent regarding my previous post, Why Meat?, I think I may have not been so clear. I know that chicken is meat. My question is how did the definition of meat come about as it is used for the Church? Is it simply definition 2b from Websters? “flesh…
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the dignity of women
[Editor’s Note: I wrote this awhile ago but never posted it. For your viewing pleasure, I changed the date so it would show up above the fold.] Innocence Denied I found this link via Fr. Jim’s Dappled Things. While I’ve been thinking about this for some time now; I’m not ready to write a full…
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why meat?
Since today is Friday, we’re all supposed to abstain from eating meat per church discipline. Well, I forgot and had some chicken today for lunch. Brandon Fischer mentioned that he believed that according to old Jewish law, chicken was not considered “meat” for things like that. My question is why meat? How did the Church…
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chesterton on tradition
“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.” – Orthodoxy by Chesteron
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Something We Should Heed To
To know whom to avoid is a great means of saving our souls. -St. Thomas Aquinas How true are these words? Birds of a feather flock together is another way to think about it. When we are doing things we shouldn’t, we usually end up hanging out with other people who shouldn’t. It’s true beyond…
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the month of st. joseph
“Change is always seen as a negative thing in our lives because it interferes with our level of comfortability. Might I suggest that we start to become comfortable with change.” -Most Rev. Gregory Aymond, Bishop of Austin, Ash Wednesday Homily 2004 The month of March is now upon us. This month is a big month.…