Assumption

• The Davidic typological basis for the Assumption. The story came from the East in a more flowery form.
• Pius XII: Munificentissimus Deus.
• The church is growing in South Korea but not in Japan.
• I hope there aren't too many people still proposing the idea that "after all, we all worship the same God." To this, I hope we don't have to go looking for pictures of beheaded three-year-old Chaldean Catholic children or piles of dehydrating bodies on a Kurdish mountainside.
• There's a difference between a bare setting out of necessity and Protestant intent. Like the Anglican attempted rebuttal to Apostolicae Curae. The original Roman ordinal was bare but that doesn't excuse Cranmer removing accretions in order to teach his heresy.
• Iraq: Stop me if you've heard this.
• The "no pro sports" test of cities with low status-striving and long-term stability.
• Must be just a coincidence because myopia's genetic. That it's caused by too much reading is a myth. I inherited my dad's defective eyesight and had it starting when I was 14. Good thing I've always liked glasses.
• The flight from white. More.