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Pelosi and Biden Eat and Drink Judgment

Zionica — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 10:55:58 +0000

OVER THE YEARS, NEWLY INSTALLED POPE FRANCIS HAS BEEN A STAUNCH DEFENDER OF LIFE. When the Pope was just Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Archbishop of Buenos Aires, he spoke clearly and without hesitation that “abortion is never a solution.” Bergoglio’s view is that abortion is a “death sentence” for the unborn. In 2007, during the presentation…

Why NASA Covered Up Communion on the Moon

Zionica — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 15:41:17 +0000

As America offered its official farewells in a memorial service September 12 to Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon, the second man on the moon, Edwin Eugene “Buzz” Aldrin, was no doubt recalling that first lunar mission in mid-July 1969. And among the recollections of the event that have been…

Communion on the Moon: Religion in Space

Zionica — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 14:16:35 +0000

Before the launch this weekend of three human beings into the ether of space around the Earth, before they boarded their Soyuz spacecraft, and before the rockets were fired, precautions were taken. Not the humdrum checklists and redundancies of space exploration — assessing the weather, the equipment, the math — but a preparation with a…

Do This

Zionica — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 12:57:13 +0000

I was recently asked to identify the biggest cultural challenge facing American Evangelicals. In my judgment, the biggest cultural challenge is not “out there” in “the culture” but internal–I almost said, “inherent”–to Evangelicalism: the persistent marginalization of the Eucharist in Evangelical church life, piety, and political engagement. Evangelicals will be incapable of responding to the…

Lesbian denied Communion at mother's funeral

Zionica — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:02:47 +0000

The Catholic Church teaches against homosexual behavior and gay marriage. But when a lesbian woman was denied Communion at her mother's funeral Mass and the priest walked out on the burial service, the Archdiocese of Washington D.C., was officially appalled. Michelle Boorstein has the details at the Washington Post. Barbara Johnson, married to her partner…