1. A few items regarding Russia and/or the Russian Orthodox Church
1.1 Significant recent Russian space mission carried "an icon presented by the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church"
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/international-mission-marks-50-years-of-russian-space-flight/story-e6frg6so-1226033950957
Labels: R.O.C., Russia
1.2 "In Russia, the dissolution of the Soviet Union led initially to a more world-oriented curriculum in the 1990s, with an emphasis on ''common human values'', but more recently, in line with Russia's foreign policy, it has been moving back to a more national and patriotic story"
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/new-curriculum-will-ultimately-mould-our-national-identity-20110405-1d2uw.html?skin=text-only
Labels: Russia
1.3 "Russian prelate says 'godless' West doomed to collapse"
http://angelqueen.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=36808
Labels: R.O.C., Russia, secularism
2. A few items regarding Ireland
2.1 "Irish Minister says religion in schools is a waste of class time"
http://angelqueen.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=36735
Not without disagreement, though:
"Former Irish prime minister defends religious instruction"
http://angelqueen.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=36807
Labels: catechesis, education, Ireland
2.2 "Irish State to seize religious order’s property to pay victim’s comp"
http://angelqueen.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=36734
Labels: Ireland
2.3 "Irish report argues against hasty government takeover of Church-run schools"
http://angelqueen.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=36768
Labels: education, Ireland
3. "The Roman Catholic Church is the official state Church in Monaco"
http://angelqueen.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=36736
I did not know that that was the case.
Labels: Church and State, Monaco
4. Gay man reflects on the implications which legalising 'gay marriage' has for legalising polygamy
http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/blogs/over-the-rainbow/4407748/Is-polygamy-such-a-bad-thing
Labels: G.L.B.T., marriage, morality, polyamory
5. Dr. Brown on the theology of the Blessed Sacrament
http://wdtprs.com/blog/2011/04/maynooth-seminary-in-ireland-fit-for-mission/#comment-264609
http://wdtprs.com/blog/2011/04/maynooth-seminary-in-ireland-fit-for-mission/#comment-264910
Labels: Sacraments, theology
6. "With the battle over legalised euthanasia touch and go in South Australia and Tasmania, the president of the Australian Nursing Federation, Coral Levett, has taken the extraordinary step of personally endorsing it"
This article is valuable for other nursing-and-euthanasia-related information in it, too:
http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/nurses-not-neutral-on-lethal-needle/
Labels: euthanasia, nursing
Reginaldvs Cantvar
Feast of St. Leo I., Pope, Confessor, Doctor of the Church, A.D. 2011
1.1 Significant recent Russian space mission carried "an icon presented by the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church"
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/international-mission-marks-50-years-of-russian-space-flight/story-e6frg6so-1226033950957
Labels: R.O.C., Russia
1.2 "In Russia, the dissolution of the Soviet Union led initially to a more world-oriented curriculum in the 1990s, with an emphasis on ''common human values'', but more recently, in line with Russia's foreign policy, it has been moving back to a more national and patriotic story"
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/new-curriculum-will-ultimately-mould-our-national-identity-20110405-1d2uw.html?skin=text-only
Labels: Russia
1.3 "Russian prelate says 'godless' West doomed to collapse"
http://angelqueen.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=36808
Labels: R.O.C., Russia, secularism
2. A few items regarding Ireland
2.1 "Irish Minister says religion in schools is a waste of class time"
http://angelqueen.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=36735
Not without disagreement, though:
"Former Irish prime minister defends religious instruction"
http://angelqueen.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=36807
Labels: catechesis, education, Ireland
2.2 "Irish State to seize religious order’s property to pay victim’s comp"
http://angelqueen.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=36734
Labels: Ireland
2.3 "Irish report argues against hasty government takeover of Church-run schools"
http://angelqueen.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=36768
Labels: education, Ireland
3. "The Roman Catholic Church is the official state Church in Monaco"
http://angelqueen.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=36736
I did not know that that was the case.
Labels: Church and State, Monaco
4. Gay man reflects on the implications which legalising 'gay marriage' has for legalising polygamy
http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/blogs/over-the-rainbow/4407748/Is-polygamy-such-a-bad-thing
Labels: G.L.B.T., marriage, morality, polyamory
5. Dr. Brown on the theology of the Blessed Sacrament
http://wdtprs.com/blog/2011/04/maynooth-seminary-in-ireland-fit-for-mission/#comment-264609
http://wdtprs.com/blog/2011/04/maynooth-seminary-in-ireland-fit-for-mission/#comment-264910
Labels: Sacraments, theology
6. "With the battle over legalised euthanasia touch and go in South Australia and Tasmania, the president of the Australian Nursing Federation, Coral Levett, has taken the extraordinary step of personally endorsing it"
This article is valuable for other nursing-and-euthanasia-related information in it, too:
http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/nurses-not-neutral-on-lethal-needle/
Labels: euthanasia, nursing
Reginaldvs Cantvar
Feast of St. Leo I., Pope, Confessor, Doctor of the Church, A.D. 2011
