Early Christians couldn't serve in the military because it involved pagan sacrifices, not because of an objection to the military service itself. . . .
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Norumbega No. 3 — April 14, 2008
Austrian emperor moves closer to canonization
The seemingly inexplicable healing of a Baptist woman from Florida has been invesitgated and presented to the Vatican as a miracle attributable to Blessed Charles I, the last Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary and Bohemia.
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The chapel that withstood 9/11 has torn out the pews that sheltered emergency workers in the weeks after.
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The banner of the Wiener Zeitung has adapted over the paper’s three centuries as Austria’s newspaper of record.
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A brief primer for the hesitant is provided by Esther Wilberforce Packard.
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New York’s 7th Regiment was kicked out of the armory its members built with their own money and then disbanded. Now, their former home is being rebranded to erase the 7th from its history.
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On a bend in the Moldau river sites the great castle of
the Schwarzenbergs, Krummau, the pride of Bohemia.
We take a brief look at the castle and the town surrounding it.
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The eighth-century teaching of Pope St. Zacharias gives us pause for thought, writes Aelianus at Ex Laodicea.
The conviction is growing in intelligence circles that Osama’s days are numbered, and many within the counterterrorism community are beginning to question some basic assumptions about al-Qaeda and how great a threat it continues to represent, writes Philip Giraldi at @TAC.
The Vatican Observatory is getting a much-needed investment in terms of repairing buildings and expanding facilities. Fr. Tim Finigan is astonished at the way the media have managed to spin this one, over at The Hermeneutic of Continuity.
A BBC survey suggests that white working-class people feel ignored by politicians . They are certainly ignored by the mainstream churches in this country – and especially by the Catholic Church, writes Damian Thompson at Holy Smoke.
When the former president of the Confederacy sat imprisoned after the Civil War, the Union treated him shamefully, denying him even basic privacy. One man, however, accorded him due respect: Blessed Pope Pius IX, writes Tribunus at Roman Christendom.
The diaries of Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, are published this month. Her publisher and editor, Robert Ellsberg, recalls her life, with its mix of traditional piety and radical politics in The Tablet.
AUSTRALIA
CANBERRA - The Prime Minister announced that the current Governor of Queensland, Her Excellency Ms. Quentin Bryce AC, is to be appointed Governor-General of Australia, the Queen’s official representative in the southerly kingdom.
TRANSYLVANIA
SEPSISZENTGYÖRGY - A remnant of the Hapsburg empire deep in the heart of Romania, the enclave of Hungarian-speaking Szeklers takes no notice of the Western powers’ insistence that the recognition of Kosovo is a one-off which sets no precedent.
ZIMBABWE
HARARE - The Zimbabwean, an independent newspaper based in exile but with reporters on the ground in the troubled African nation, has reported that the ruling ZANU-PF party has effectively staged an auto-coup in association with the Army’s Joint Operations Command.