[Gamecock]

Another example of God’s Providence...I am being reassigned to Germany this summer.

One Calvinist should about do it.

[Gamecock]

[Dr. Eckleburg]

One Calvinist should about do it.

Amen, elect Brother! The truth is singular, and requires but one voice to preach it.

You'll still be among us on Free Republic, won't you?

[gbcdoj]

Unless the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it. Unless the Lord keep the city, he watcheth in vain that keepeth it. (Ps 126:1b)

[massiveblob]

All countries need Christianity to prosper and survive. Everyone needs to remember that.

[AAABEST]

Thank you for posting this.

On a side note, as a Catholic I'll say that you're thick skin and open mind is appreciated. It certainly hasn't been lost on me anyway.

[enuu]

I'm happy to hear the Pope is feeling healthier. An answer to prayers from around the world. It's interesting to note that naturally he is referred to as "the leader of the world's 1 billion Catholics" -- but Catholic doctrine holds that the Pope is responsible for the moral leadership of the entire human race. Hence the appropriateness of his addressing this critical issue about Europe putting it's new structure in proper historical and cultural context, and within the framework of Christian morality.

[Wallace T.]

That Europe needs a revival of the Christian faith from Ireland to Russia and from Lapland to Sicily is unquestionable. The only rapidly growing faith on the old continent, the source of our civilization, is Islam. Without a revival of the hope for the future and the sort of morality that honors marriage and family and disdains all sex outside of heterosexual marriage, the native population of Europe will continue to decline. The talk of Eurabia and the conversion of places like Notre Dame Cathedral into mosques are not fantasies, but possibilities given population trends.

The Pope errs in his desire to have the proposed European Constitution recognize the Christian faith. Many European nations have language of that nature, and several have state-supported churches. The state-supported churches are little more than caretakers for museums of the continent's Christian past.

If revival is to come to Europe, or for that manner, to Canada and our own Northeast and West Coast, it will come through faithful witnessing of the Gospel in public squares from Limerick to Kiev, opening new churches, training effective apologetics to confront and defeat the arguments of the secular humanists, and developing infrastructure such as Christian schools and universities to train the next generation of believers.

The Christian faith lost hold of its Middle East, the cradle of the religion, through invading Muslim hordes in the 6th and 7th Centuries, who won by force of arms. It may lose Europe, its stronghold for over a millennium, to the Muslim hordes in the 21st and 22nd Centuries, who may win not by force of arms so much as Europeans being unwilling and indisposed to preserve the Christian faith.

[Rytwyng]

ping

[topcat54]

The pope, whose native country, Poland, is one of the new countries in the 25-strong EU, ...

Whenever I hear this all I can think of poor Hal Lindsey and his predictions back in the '80s regarding the 10 member Common Market as the revived Roman Empire.

Anybody know what Hal's tune is today?

[pctech]

Can anyone say "one world government?"