Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Notes: Saturday-Wednesday, August 7-11, 2010

T.R.H. The Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Denmark are expecting

From Amalienborg Palace:

The Crown Prince Couple is expecting twins

Issued Friday August 6, 2010


Amalienborg Palace, August 6, 2010

Their Royal Highnesses The Crown Prince and The Crown Princess are happy to announce that The Crown Princess is expecting twins.

The birth is expected to take place at Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen (Copenhagen University Hospital) in January, 2011.

Lene Balleby
Head of Communication
Tel.: +45 30 40 10 10

[http://www.crownprincecouple.dk/7f22774/Year/2010]

Discussion on H.H. The Pope's dropping of the Papal title of 'Patriarch of the West'

http://wdtprs.com/blog/2010/08/dropping-patriarch-of-the-west-and-changing-titles-of-roman-basilicas-to-papal/#comments

Why (among other reasons) women can't be priests (and shouldn't be altar servers, either)

http://wdtprs.com/blog/2010/08/whither-losservatore-romano/#comment-217182

Another web-page on that disgraceful L'Osservatore Romano article:

http://angelqueen.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=33085

"Mexico's Separation of Church and State"

http://angelqueen.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=33055

"Judge’s anti-Prop. 8 decision ‘finds as a fact’ that Pope Benedict’s teachings are harmful to homosexuals"

http://angelqueen.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=33072

"NSW to consider adoption agencies right to reject gay couples"

http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=22748

Interesting books reviewed/mentioned in the weekend papers:

Reviewed in The Weekend Australian:

"Legend's makeover gives thieving hero a licence to kill"
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/legends-makeover-gives-thieving-hero-a-licence-to-kill/story-e6frg8nf-1225900606998
"Holy Warrior
"By Angus Donald
"Sphere, 344pp, $29.99"

"Do worry and don't always be happy"
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/do-worry-and-dont-always-be-happy/story-e6frg8nf-1225900609218
"The Uses of Pessimism: And the Danger of False Hope
"By Roger Scruton
"Atlantic Books, 232pp, $35"

Reviewed in The Sydney Morning Herald:

Griffith Review 29: Prosper or Perish
(It was only one of the short reviews, presumably not available on-line, so here's the U.R.L. for the book's official web-page:
http://www.griffithreview.com/editions.html)

And I was interested to see that ranking at no. 8 on the Herald's list of the top ten "Political/social science" bestsellers was, would you believe, The Communist Manifesto.

Reginaldvs Cantvar
Feast of Sts. Tiburtius, Martyr, and Susanna, Virgin, Martyr, A.D. 2010

1 comment:

Dof said...

I couldn't agree more!

By the way, if it's said that Australia needs an Australian "head of state", and we *must* get rid of the British monarchy, why don't we invite one of the Crown Prince of Denmark's younguns to fill the role, as king or queen of Australia. They have Aussie blood flowing through the veins... sort of.

Better than a pinko president (or presidente).