RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. I proposed: Is not the Church – as distinguished from the churches in the sense of denominations, counting Vatican among them — in need of a Third Church Ecumenical Council, after Nicaea and Chalcedon, to formulate and promulgate a creedal/confessional statement that aims…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT An internet circular made these points: Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846. John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946. Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860. John…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Man alone has freedom to transcend his condition, in limited ways physically but on principle in unlimited ways spiritually, to include the functions of culture, religion and morality. The ability to transcend any cultural situation, by creating…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Responding, with further edits, to Scott Johnson on the movie Munich: Merry Christmas and Holy New Year!! Liberal Jews and probably others had hoped the Allies would give them Bavaria after WWII and were disappointed that it did not happen. Munich was to be…
Some thoughts: 1- President George W. Bush is going to be regarded in the same breath as Lincoln and Washington. Their mantle rests on his shoulders. I trust him. My only criticism of President Bush is that he has not put the country on war footing, as during WWII. 2- There is no requirement that…
This from the end of a Martin Peretz article, no longer available, in a Commentary chain of articles identifies what I think is the key issue: What the Bush Doctrine has not dealt with is the issue that has been forced, albeit very reluctantly, upon Europe. It is not only a matter of sleeper cells. There is the more…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, You know, the more I think about the behavior of partisan Democrats, the more I think that their error is not really in what they say — although there is plenty of that, but it is discussable, if discussion were possible —…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT The situation today is Vietnam all over again in the sense that once again the Democratic Party, with backing from academe and hostile foreign governments, is using their friends in the…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Essence and existence are contrasted in ontological philosophy and theology. The distinction is highly useful and phenomenological (experienced). Essence is what we really are, which is hidden but which we experience inside ourselves,…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Each of the five great religions of man — Hinduism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Islam and Christianity — is universally, but not solely universally, valid. Each is a universally effective, but none is…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Responding to this essay by the great Christopher Hitchens: This article states the truth. I think, however, that the time for discussion, for rational conversation, is over and that the subject, in whole, has been submitted to the judgment of war, trusting…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Two people were viewing pictures of their family recently. One teaches primary school, the other retired some years ago from teaching primary school. The younger pointed to a picture and said, “That’s her.” The elder replied, “That is…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Usable WMDs were in the hands of Saddam Hussein before, just before and after 11SEP01, lots of them, and many remain in Iraq. The intelligence estimates of Western nations have been…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Christianity is religionless. It is not a religion. Christianity is a Faith, a Faith in, over, under, around and through Jesus of Nazareth as the Christ of history and history’s subordinate…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. This paragraph by Mark Steyn is a theological statement: The argument they make is usually a moral one – that there’s something better and more compassionate about us all sharing the burden as a community. But the election…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Nice little article in Taps just received on Westmoreland’s funeral at USMA in July. Reminds me of the day the young, petulant King who became Kaiser Bill of WWI succeeded, with the help of the liberals of…
