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Quote from an article about Catholic cremation practices from 2016: The Catholic Church and Cremation "In Christian cultures, especially the Roman Catholic Church, burial was preferred to cremation as is evidenced by the Roman catacombs and relics of saints who have been preserved for...

With regard to whether or not the aggressor country has attacked another country's territory, it must be borne in mind that as of the date of Germany's declaration of war against the U.S., that country had already torpedoed and sunk a U.S. Navy destroyer (the USS Reuben James), as well as a...

I was pleased when I read what our governor had done. There are cases that deserve the death penalty, but this was not one of them. Sometimes the "felony murder" statute can be carried too far. Dxx

If you're looking for sympathy, you won't find any from me. Here in the U.S. we have a saying -- Fool around, find out. You fooled around, and you found out -- punishment. If you want to escape the punishment, quit fooling around. Take the word of someone who has been breathing air for...

This reminds me of a meme that's making the rounds on social media -- "You can pretend all you want that you're a woman, but when you reach age 50, you're still going to have to start getting regular prostate exams." Dxx

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beguines_and_Beghards

I have enough classroom hours in Arabic to have earned a B.A. in the language, if they had all been at one institution and in one program. I can affirm that you are 100% correct.

Having spent some time in Egypt, I can only say that your guess is as good as anyone else's.

I see rocks. And who has actually seen the face of a cherub, to know what such a face would actually look like? Dxx

Sounds like a sudden case of pearl-clutching to me.

"Three days and three nights" is a Hebrew figure of speech. When people try to make that expression walk on all fours, they run into interpretational problems. Dxx

There are three ways of looking at this. 1. If you are treating the relationship in purity, and you know that you're living in purity, then basically you can continue to do what you're doing and tell anyone who objects to go pound sand (respectfully, of course). But . . . 2. We are called...

The Old Testament is Scripture, and it preceded the Church. The Church did precede the New Testament. Dxx

From my former status as a serious Protestant, I would respond that part of the problem is that the phrase "Mother of XXX" carries the connotation that before XXX was conceived in the womb, he did not exist. Many Protestants attach that meaning to the phrase "Mother of God," however...

Me too. Alabama is going to go big-time for Trump, and my single vote will not have any impact at all, so I am going to vote my conscience. I don't want to come out of our community center holding my nose, so I am going to vote in the lower races, but unless something changes my mind, I'm...