Canon Blawging

For several days I’ve been meaning to link to a couple of pieces on Ed Peters’ canon blawg, In Light Of The Law.

Ideally, I’d like to do two separate posts linking to Ed’s two most recent blog entries. Unfortunately, like I did when I first started blogging, Ed is doing a hand-coded blog that does not have permalinks, so I can’t.

(Hint, hint, Ed! Automated blogs are much better! And will get you more traffic by making it easier for folks to link to you–among other things. I’ll even help you convert yours over to automated form if you’ll let me!)

Anyhoo, here’s what’s up on the good Dr.’s canon blawg:

1) There’s been a lot of silly talk about the pope being forced to resign. Can’t be done. Shouldn’t be done. And Ed has some great commentary on the subject.

2) Apropo of papal succession, turns out that one cardinal thought to have the ability to vote in the next conclave had lied about his age (to the tune of five years) and was actually over the cutoff age for cardinals being able to vote in papal elections. Fortunately, the guy outed himself before the time came, but the thought of an ineligible papal elector participating in a conclave ought to give everyone the willies.

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Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

5 thoughts on “Canon Blawging”

  3. I normally wouldn’t make such a comment as this, but being that you’re a Language Guy, I believe the spelling is “apropos.”
    By the way, it was my son Ted who asked about Greek pronunciation recently, and you also recommended a couple of good books. He is doing a presentation on ancient and koine Greek today in his western civilization class using the books as resources. Thanks!
    Ruthann

  4. A typo? A TYPO???? On a *blog*??????
    The heavens are falling! 😉
    Glad the books were helpful!

  5. Ruthann.
    But remember…Jimmy is a Language Guy…..
    FROM TEXAS.
    As he said a few posts up, they do language a little different over there, so you have to cut him some slack.

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