Great Day of touring Bethlehem and all its glory and fun, including dancing. Enjoy!
By the way, Miriam of Jesus Crucified is being canonized in Rome Sunday. She is a Palestinian Christian we all visited her convent today and all wore her cloak and prayed at her relics. WOW!
Article on the new Arab saints.
All Day in Bethlehem – Visiting a new saint
Deacon Thaddeus’ Homily at Shepherds Field
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Today I am in Israel, in fact we are in the Palestinian West Bank. I have a lot of Arab friends here — friends who are Christians and Muslims. All the Christians and many of the Muslims in private will tell you that this is true — while politically-correct Americans will deny it.
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He says, referring to the ideology of the Islamic State: “Our Islamic heritage is a minefield of these deviant ideas…The problem of us Arabs is that we are not being honest with ourselves…All the books of Islamic heritage, without exception, from all Islamic sects and denominations, have enough ISIS ideology to turn your hair white.” He then says that this ideology doesn’t come from the Qur’an or Muhammad, which is, of course, false, but understandable that he couldn’t indict the Qur’an and Muhammad while sitting in a TV studio in Kuwait. He says that the ideology comes from the Islamic jurists, and calls for a thorough reevaluation of Bukhari and the other Hadith collections, noting that they’re not infallible. It will be interesting to see what kind of reaction he gets, if any, from Muslim authorities. To keep up with the latest on Islam follow Robert Spencer, faithful Catholic and expert on Islam.
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