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Shattered Tablets: Why We Ignore the Ten Commandments at Our Peril by David Klinghoffer gives a very interesting Jewish perspective on culture using the Ten Commandments. Each chapter goes through each commandment with plenty of commentary both on the commandment and the negative examples society gives by rejecting them. David Klinghoffer being from the Seattle area primarily uses news from Seattle and surrounding areas to make his points. The secularism of Seattle and the Pacific Northwest in general provides a good backdrop to roundly ignoring the Ten Commandments.
David Klinghoffer is a Senior Fellow of the Discovery Institute and contributor to the National Review and the Jewish weekly newspaper The Forward is an Orthodox Jew, but he is quite willing to make common cause with conservative Christians. His harsher criticisms are given to both liberal Jews and Christians for their part in ignoring the Commandments and then secularists. The stories he culls from both Seattle and national news illustrates exactly the points he wants to make when we dump our Judeo-Christian heritage.
I found his commentary on the Ten Commandments primarily using Jewish sources to be quite informative and interesting. Though you can certainly see some divulgences in interpretations from the Ten Commandments that divulge from Catholic understanding. So while I might disagree with some of his interpretations I mostly agree with how he sees living the Ten Commandments and especially how not following the Sabbath has so disrupted Family and Community. The book though has definitely given me a deeper view on some of the nuances of the Commandment that are normally mentioned.
After reporters interpreted the Pope wearing "intentionally green" vestments in Loreto as an ecological statement the Pope challenges reporters to interpret these vestments.
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ZURICH, September 7, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Swiss court has ruled that a Catholic bishop has no authority to remove a rebel priest from his parish post under Switzerland’s labour laws.
The Basel Country cantonal court decided that Father Franz Sabo will remain at the parish of Röschenz as a parish administrator, despite the countervailing orders from Basel Bishop Kurt Koch.
Fr. Sabo has been supported by the majority of Röschenz parishioners, whom he served as pastor from 1998-2005. Fr. Sabo was removed from his pastorate in 2005 after he publicly reviled Bishop Koch and repudiated essential Catholic teachings on marriage and homosexuality.
When Bishop Koch took steps to extricate Fr. Sabo from Röschenz entirely, the parish took him to court saying they rejected "the dictate of the bishop" and would continue to contract Fr. Sabo as a parish administrator.
The judges ruled in favour of the parish, saying the diocese had authority only to revoke Fr. Sabo’s teaching authority or canonical mission. However the matter of Fr. Sabo’s complete dismissal was also ruled to violate Swiss labour laws and as such the Catholic Church must permit Fr. Sabo to resume activities as parish administrator at Röschenz .
In August 2003 Fr. Sabo blasted Bishop Koch in the Basler Zeitung newspaper calling the bishop "heartless" and the Church out of touch with the pulse of the times and with his diocese. Fr. Sabo denounced Bishop Koch’s directive banning defrocked priests from offering Mass, but also tore into the Vatican’s defense of traditional marriage and teachings against homosexuals living together.
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The AP has their knives out for the Pope’s trip to Austria.
Apathy, hostility await Pope Benedict during his 3-day visit to Austria
The article managed not one positive thing and calls the organization "We are Church" influential.
It will be much better to read Gerald’s take from Austria.
LONDON (CNS) — British musicians recorded the classic Irish hymn, "Sweet Heart of Jesus," in a calypso, disco style and sent it to Pope Benedict XVI on an iPod nano.
Pope Benedict might like it, or he might become the first pontiff in history to throw an iPod into the trash.
The musicians’ intention, however, was to soften the pope’s attitude toward modern church music.
The gift is from contemporary Catholic songwriters Jo Boyce and Mike Stanley, and it features a new album of classic hymns reworked in modern forms of music. The duo has used instruments such as pianos, saxophones, guitars, drums and synthesizers to recreate centuries-old works in laid-back gospel, folk, funk, soul and lounge-music styles.
The album, "Age to Age," was downloaded onto an iPod and sent to Pope Benedict in the hope of gaining a "papal seal of approval," said a Sept. 4 press release by the Catholic Communications Network of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales.
The Pope already has an iPod Nano given him by Vatican Radio.
Though the white iPod nano is tiny, it still made an impression on the pope. When the head of the radio’s technical and computer support department, Mauro Milita, identified himself and handed the pope the boxed iPod, the pope was said to have replied, "Computer technology is the future."
The pope’s new 2-gigabyte digital audio player already was loaded with a sampling of the radio’s programming in English, Italian and German and musical compositions by Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Frederic Chopin, Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky and Igor Stravinsky. The stainless steel back was engraved with the words "To His Holiness, Benedict XVI" in Italian.
After his first iPod Nano loaded with classical music and getting his new one – after listening to it he might take it too the local Apple Store Genius Bar and complain that there is something wrong with it "The music sounds familiar but the sound has gone horribly wrong. Can you fix it?"