Oddwalk Ministries

Month: August 2009

Health Care

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has created a website filled with statements, videos, statistics, and pastoral letters to help educate American Catholics with regards to the ongoing discussion about the state of heath care in the US. You can find it at http://usccb.org/healthcare/. Here is the USCCB position on health care reform…

Just a Quick Heads Up

Just a quick note to those seeing these posts not on the Oddblog, but over on Facebook or some other RSS reader, etc.  The main source of these posts is the Oddblog, at http://oddwalkministries.com/oddblog – though we’re quite happy to have readership in these other ways too.  Just in case you all were unaware –…

New OddPoll – Marian Devotion

In honor of today’s lesser-known marian feast, down there, in the sidebar, vote on your favorite devotional title for Mary! If you pick the “other” answer, leave your favorite title in the comments of this post. Happy voting (for the next week or so)!

Happy Feast Day!

Today, August 5th, is the Feast of Our Lady of the Snows, known today as the Dedication of the Mary Major Basilica in Rome. The early Church was often struggling in its theology, and one of the first debates was on the very nature of Jesus: was he a man, was he God, or was…