Vatican to Excommunicate Women Priests
It's good to see a church enforcing its doctrines instead changing the doctrines, because someone broke it. Now if we could just see other churches following their example. Any women who are ordained as priests are automatically excommunicated, as well as the bishop who ordains them.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Good for the Roman Catholic Church
Labels: doctrine, excommunicated, Roman Catholic
Sunday, June 1, 2008
Off Topic: Mississippi Coast
My wife and I went on our first trip with little Georgie. He was great and didn't fuss much. We went to visit my mother in Mississippi. I thought we'd drive through New Orleans and along Highway 90 to see how the recovery effort was coming along. It was disheartening through the last half of New Orleans. I wish I had thought to snap a few pictures. We could see quite a few houses and businesses still gutted and with holes in their roofs. You could tell there has been a lot of progress, but it was saddening to see how many buildings still were not viable.
We did think to grab a few pictures along Highway 90 in Mississippi. Back before Hurricane Katrina, my wife I visited Biloxi. There was a beautiful old Episcopal church, The Church of the Redeemer. The main building had been constructed in 1874. It was architecturally beautiful. I wish I had thought to take a picture. You can visit the web site for the full history. Out front there had been a bell tower. There were three stain glass windows that been fashioned from the glass from the debris left by Hurricane Camille which had destroyed the new church building in 1969. They were a memorial, "Window of Hope", "Window of the Redeemer", and "Rose Window." To left, I have a picture of where the old church stood.
Many of the beautiful antebellum homes that lined the beach were destroyed, some were merely damaged, and only a few have restored or rebuilt.
You can find the full gallery here.
Labels: katrina, mississippi