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ACORN’s radical allies are now attempting to rewrite history to cast the organized crime syndicate as victim instead of as the prolific victimizer that it has been ever since it was created in 1970. ACORN online campaign director Nathan Henderson-James served notice in February that a propaganda effort was about to begin. “[T]here will be a fight over the narrative of ACORN’s demise,” he wrote to members of Townhouse, a discussion forum run by Matt Stoller, senior policy adviser to Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.). The other side wants “a narrative about the corruption of popular organizations and how they are...

Peter Steele, the singer, bassist and chief songwriter for the heavy metal band Type O Negative, died on Wednesday. He was 48. His death was announced on the band’s Web site (typeonegative.net). The announcement said that the cause had not yet been officially determined but appeared to be heart failure; it did not say where he died.

Catholic Biblical Apologetics Apologetics without apology! What does the Roman Catholic Church teach about ...? ... and why? This website surveys the origin and development of Roman Catholic Christianity from the period of the apostolic church, through the post-apostolic church and into the conciliar movement. Principal attention is paid to the biblical basis of both doctrine and dogma as well as the role of paradosis (i.e. handing on the truth) in the history of the Church. Particular attention is also paid to the hierarchical founding and succession of leadership throughout the centuries. This is a set of lecture notes...

While a student at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, I had the privilege of having Dr. Scott Hahn as one of my Scripture professors. One thing he taught us is to look out “rumble strips” in the Bible. Imagine yourself cruising along, when suddenly you feel seismic vibrations in your car and hear that annoying muffled sound—you’re fast approaching a toll booth and the rumble strips are telling you to slow down and pay attention. So it is with passages in scripture which seem to disrupt the otherwise smooth narrative of salvation history. They seem to be randomly inserted in...

I was asked by a reader of my Sunday Messages, “How do I love someone I don't like, and if I can't love them does it mean I do not love God?” I decided to tackle this question because there are many Christians who find it difficult, if not down right impossible, to love those they don't like. We are told by John that, “He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.” 1John 4:8 John goes on to write that it is impossible to love a God you cannot see, if you do not love...

WAS PETER EVER AT IN ROME? As to the question whether Peter was ever at Rome, the Roman claim is that he suffered martyrdom there with Paul, after a Pontificate of twenty-five years. This would be from A.D. 41 to 66. But note:---- 1. In 44 he was imprisoned in Jerusalem (Acts 12). 2. In 52 he was at the Council of Jerusalem (Acts 15). 3. In 53 Paul joined him at Antioch (Galatians 2). 4. In 58 Paul wrote to the Romans, but does not mention Peter. In 1:11, he wants to impart special gifts; and in 1:15 he...

Peter Schiff attacks Obama's stimulus package. If you don't know who Peter Schiff is, he is a Republican (and a genius) who is running for Senate in Connecticut. He believes that America is going to enter a very severe double dip recession within the next two years (between 2010-2012), because of Obama's socialist economic policies. He believes that there will be a currency crisis due to the Fed's mismanagement of the dollar. While Ben Bernanke failed to see the housing bubble of 2007, and the ensuing recession that we are currently in, Peter Schiff predicted it with perfect clarity in...

Peter Schiff predicts a recession worse than the one we just came out of, due to Obama's stimulus. Furthermore, he points out that Ben Bernanke didn't see the housing buble, and that the Fed caused the recession that we are still in/just coming out of.

The British hostage Peter Moore was dramatically set free yesterday after the United States handed over an Iraqi insurgent suspected of planning the deaths of five American servicemen. Mr Moore, an IT consultant, was freed by League of the Righteous, or Asaib al-Haq (AAH) — an extremist Shia group allied to Iran — after 31 months and spent his first night of freedom at the British Embassy in Baghdad. He is expected to fly home today.

Peter Schiff is predicting that the next decade 2010-2020 will REALLY be the decade from hell. Liberal Time Magazine has labeled THIS decade "the decade from hell," (2000-2010), but Republican gnius, Peter Schiff says they're wrong. Watch the YouTube link. Seriously, don't skip this stuff. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScejX-7DAto&feature=sub

Peter Schiff is predicting that Obama's policies will send us further into another financial crisis. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uo_wE85JKk&feature=sub

Peter Schiff destroys the Democrats and Obama yet with his economic policies. Republican Peter Schiff is running for Senate in Connecticut. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi9weNRxFss&feature=sub

Republican candidate for Senate in Connecticut Peter Schiff destroys Obama's ideas for "bailing out" the American economy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XipUWfxZ0lk&feature=subtivity

Republican genius, Peter Schiff talks about the Dumbocrats' stupid ideas for the economy. America is simply printing more money hoping that that will make people richer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pqQWzxMo2M http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHE6LBJjksg He is running for Senate in Connecticut, vote him IN, people. On healthcare: http://www.youtube.com/user/SchiffReport#p/a/u/1/LfGjqmG47cU

Peter Schiff is a Republican genius when it comes to the economy. He singlehandedly destroys Obama'a plan to save the economy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46ItttTID3k&feature=subtivity

PAPHOS, Cyprus, OCT. 23, 2009 (Zenit.org).- The International Mixed Commission for Theological Dialogue Between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church has progressed in its reflection on the role of the bishop of Rome. The commission issued a joint communiqué reporting on its progress at the end of its 11th plenary session, ended today in Paphos. The document in question is titled "The Role of the Bishop of Rome in the Communion of the Church in the First Millennium." The document is based on a draft prepared by an Orthodox-Catholic committee, which met in Crete last year. At present, the...

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 Christ Giving the Keys to St. Peter (Sistine Chapel - Pietro Perugino, 1480-81) NOTE: This series is a work in progress. See Part 1 updates including bibliography in progress. As I add sources and update past posts I will continue to expand the bibliography. "I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven." (Matt 16:19) If verse 18 ("You are Petros, and on this rock I will build my Church") is the central saying of...

(SDG) Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 NOTE: This series is a work in progress. See Part 1 updates including bibliography in progress. As I add sources and update past posts I will continue to expand the bibliography. Those who oppose identifying Peter as the rock on which the church is built in Matthew 16:18 typically interpose one or more of the following textual objections. First, they rely on the opposition of the terms themselves: Petra is solid rock, petros, a detached stone; they cannot mean...

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 "You are Petros, and on this rock I will build my church." (Matt 16:18) NOTE: This series is a work in progress. See Part 1 updates including bibliography in progress. As I add sources and update past posts I will continue to expand the bibliography. Peter's confession of Christ We have arrived at ground zero in the Petrine controversy, one of the most bitterly disputed texts in all of sacred scripture. Here the Petrine fact looms most intractably and prominently, resisting all attempts...

Continued from Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 The Calling of the Apostles Peter and Andrew (Duccio di Buoninsegna, 1308) Edited/Expanded Friday evening; see new material in blue below. "So you are Simon the son of John? You shall be called Cephas (which means Petros)" (John 1:42). All four Gospels tell us that Simon bar-Jona was renamed Cephas, or Petros (i.e., Peter), by Jesus himself (Matthew 16:18, Mark 3:16, Luke 6:14, John 1:42). Cephas is a Grecized transliteration of kepha, an Aramaic word for rock. (Well, technically, since I'm writing in English, "kepha" and "cephas"...