Saturday, April 30, 2011 at 1:47AM NOTRadio The enchantment continued for some little while. Luther tried hard to realise the dreams which had lightened his toilsome journey. Here, thought Luther, the martyrs had died; on the floor of this stupendous ruin, the Coliseum, had they contended with the lions; on this spot, where now stands the sumptuous temple of St. Peter, and where the Vicar of Christ has erected his throne, were they...
Saturday, April 30, 2011 at 1:36AM NOTRadio As the bull disseminated Luther penned The Babylonish Captivity of the Church. "I denied that the Papacy was of Divine origin, but I granted that it was of human right. Now ... I know that the Papacy is none other than the kingdom of Babylon ... I therefore beseech all my friends and all the booksellers to burn the books that I have written on this subject, and to...
Saturday, April 30, 2011 at 1:07AM NOTRadio "The masterpiece of Satan is Popery ... It is undeniable that some of the most eminent ... are straining their utmost to effect the union of their community with Rome, and their admiration for everything Popish is undisguised. Yet we are to recognize this ... as the great bulwark of Protestantism! We will believe it when we believe wolves to be the guardians of sheepfolds...
Saturday, April 30, 2011 at 12:56AM NOTRadio Karl Marx, who famously described religion as “the opium of the people”, has joined Galileo, Charles Darwin and Oscar Wilde on a growing list of historical figures to have undergone an unlikely reappraisal by the Roman Catholic Church. L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, said yesterday that Marx’s early critiques of capitalism had highlighted the “social alienation” felt by the...
Saturday, April 30, 2011 at 12:51AM NOTRadio Today there are barely half as many Jesuits at Georgetown, the order’s flagship university. Gonzaga, a Jesuit high school in Northwest Washington, is down to 17, compared with 43 in 1970. There’s talk that St. Aloysius, a Jesuit parish in the District known for its social justice efforts, could close when the last remaining Jesuit leaves. And there are no full-time Jesuit staff members at the Washington Jesuit Academy, where the board chairman is Jewish...