Religion

Fresh off a characteristically controversial performance at a Friday night rally in Utah where the GOP frontrunner questioned whether newfound nemisis and self-styled party elder Mitt Romney is "really a Mormon," Donald Trump is set to speak in Arizona today and protesters are now blocking traffic on a highway. 

As a local ABC affiliate reports:

"Protesters lined the streets of Fountain Hills on Saturday morning to block traffic to the Donald Trump rally." 

 

A senior Vatican priest has issued a warning to Catholics worldwide about the dangers of both yoga and Harry Potter – claiming that they can lead to demonic possession.  Father Cesare Truqui, chief Vatican exorcist, says that there has been a marked increase in possession worldwide following the rise in popularity of fantasy novel books such as Harry Potter and the practice of yoga.

My friend the philosopher James K.A. Smith gave a talk the other day at the Ethics and Public Policy Center’s Faith Angle Forum. In the Q&A, the Benedict Option came up. Here’s a link to the audio clip. The Ben Op discussion comes up at shortly past the 20 minute mark.

When someone in the audience asked Jamie (as his friends call him) to comment on the Benedict Option, he asked to go off the record because he’s a friend of mine. Someone — Mike Cromartie, I’m guessing — said no, keep it on the record, because “he can handle it.”

American “Justice” Too Corrupt Even For The Totally Corrupt DOJ

The US court system is so corrupt that it is too much even for the corrupt US
Dept of Justice (sic), a cabinet department that legalized torture, indefinite detention of
US citizens without due process of law, execution of US citizens without due process of law, and
all-invasive spying on US citizens in total violation of the US Constitution.

Here is the US Attorney General telling off the corrupt state and local judges for reinstituting debtor prisons.