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Yes, and I remain far from convinced that orthodox Catholics offer worship to anyone other than the Triune God.

Where does the Catholic Church promote that?

Amy, my heart goes out to you and your husband. This recession has really hit people hard. We're skating close to the edge ourselves right now: my law practice is, save for a miracle, failing and we could lose our home. Events such as these can really rock and devastate our faith. It's...

Neither side comes out of this with much credit. The *cough* 'questionable' practices of some NATO forces have been exposed, but they were largely already known about or suspected. Assange, meanwhile, has endangered NATO and Afghan lives by publishing sufficient data to enable individuals to be...

No-one comes out of this well: as I understand it, the White House assumed that al-Megrahi would be free in Scotland but not returned to Libya; the Scottish government then disabused them of that assumption by (a) freeing him and (b) bunging him on the first plane ot Libya they could find.

You're being rather selective there, aren't you?

Here's the rub: much as the UK would like to recognise the validity of the passports (the Iroquois after all invented lacrosse), under UK law it can only do recognise passports of countries it recognises as independent; therefore, were it to recognise these passports as genuine, it would mean...

You're forgetting the Ogrons. OK, not exactly a partnership as the Ogrons were clearly the subservient party, but we do at least have that as a precedent for Daleks cooperating with other species.

Hope so - how does the Moff get out of that?!

Heh heh!:laugh:

I suppose I should add a further monergist option for the Calvinists: grace = faith + salvation + works.

What next? The late Michael Jackson giving child protection advice?

We're slightly bemused more than irritated by the 'British' bit, since no-one here has called it 'British' for aeons, just 'BP' and, as I've already pointed out, it's a largely Anglo-American-owned concern.

Probably - I've heard it said that if Benedict XVI had been alive in 1517 he would have wound up a Lutheran and that if Luther were alive today, he'd be a Catholic...go figure! The real (Reformation) issue is whether grace + faith = salvation + works or whether grace + faith + works = salvation...

Agreed. Those last five minutes in the Musee d'Orsay brought tears to my eyes. Brilliant acting all round. The monster was a bit pathetic but then it wasn't really about the monster was it? This marks in some ways a return to one of DW's roots: the intention to be educational - Richard Curtis...

The irony is that, despite the 'B' in BP, it is in reality Anglo-American; 39% of its shareholders are American- that's US retirement funds Obama is threatening with his call for BP to withold their dividend. He's playing a dangerous game IMO...

Just the whole 'questioning of reality' thing. You'll like the next one, I think; without any real spoilers, let's just say that Moffat has revived a classic Pertwee enemy...

Agreed; at first I just thought they were very sloppy continuity errors but there were too many and they were too obvious for that. Latest episode screened here, Amy's Choice is excellent; I won't give any spoilers, just say it's very PoMo...

Oh, we still have November 5th here. In some parts they still set fire to an effigy of the Pope that night!

Um...no; that's a charity benefit gig.