Regressive Fun
I promise, at some point, I will get to the adventure that is working at CPL. Just not tonight.
I was looking for some information on a saint through Google, and I stumbled across an online version of the Catholic Encyclopedia (published circa 1912), on a web site run by the Brothers of Christian Instruction. http://newadvent.org/cathen makes for some, um, interesting reading. Here's an excerpt from the entry on Protestantism:
No bond of union exists between the many national Churches, except their common hatred of 'Rome,' which is the birthmark of all and the trade-mark of many, even unto our day.
Raised Protestant, I was working up a full head of steam over this until I realized that there was no entry for Vatican II and that the whole thing had pretty much been copied verbatim from an edition from early in the last century. Still, it seems a little irresponsible of the BCI to go to the trouble of uploading a work like this with no updating and little or no comment (for real laughs, read the entry on Judaism) when it wouldn't have been all that much more difficult to modernize some of the views expressed. In the end, I went back to comforts of the sinners at the Chicago Sun-Times and listened to the gospel program on the radio.
I was looking for some information on a saint through Google, and I stumbled across an online version of the Catholic Encyclopedia (published circa 1912), on a web site run by the Brothers of Christian Instruction. http://newadvent.org/cathen makes for some, um, interesting reading. Here's an excerpt from the entry on Protestantism:
No bond of union exists between the many national Churches, except their common hatred of 'Rome,' which is the birthmark of all and the trade-mark of many, even unto our day.
Raised Protestant, I was working up a full head of steam over this until I realized that there was no entry for Vatican II and that the whole thing had pretty much been copied verbatim from an edition from early in the last century. Still, it seems a little irresponsible of the BCI to go to the trouble of uploading a work like this with no updating and little or no comment (for real laughs, read the entry on Judaism) when it wouldn't have been all that much more difficult to modernize some of the views expressed. In the end, I went back to comforts of the sinners at the Chicago Sun-Times and listened to the gospel program on the radio.
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