Caerphilly Castle, Wales

Caerphilly Castle is one of the great medieval castles of western Europe. Several factors give it this pre-eminence - its immense size (1.2h), making it the largest in Britain after Windsor, its large-scale use of water for defence and the fact that it is the first truly...

Lord Mayor's Show

This annual event has been taking over the streets of London for nearly 800 years now. The parade involves over 6,000 people, bands, over 140 decorated floats, costumed performers and a gilded State Coach that the Lord Mayor travels in. If you aren't sick of fireworks by this...

Supermarket asks man, 87, for ID

An 87-year-old man was asked to prove he was over 21 when he tried to buy a bottle of sherry in a York supermarket. The former Lord Mayor of York, Jack Archer, said he was shocked - but flattered - when asked the question by staff at Morrisons in Acomb. He said: "I don't look...

Religious Broadcaster Pat Robertson Predicts Horrific Terrorist Attack on U.S...

"VIRGINIA BEACH, Virginia — Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson predicted Tuesday a horrific terrorist act on the United States that will result in "mass killing" late in 2007. "I'm not necessarily saying it's going to be nuclear," he said during his news-and-talk...

Christians must 'let go' some beliefs for sake of peace, theologian says

"To live peacefully with Muslims and Jews, Christians must put aside the notion that their faith requires the creation of a Christian kingdom on Earth, a Lipscomb University theologian told an interfaith gathering at the university. "We are not going to get very far in our...

John chapter 14 verse 6

"In John 14:6 if Jesus saith, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me... was he wrong? Is this statement of Jesus Christ a misnomer... difficult to understand! We all know and understand that before the advent of Jesus Christ there was...

1676 Thanksgiving Proclamation

""The Holy God having by a long and Continual Series of his Afflictive dispensations in and by the present Warr with the Heathen Natives of this land, written and brought to pass bitter things against his own Covenant people in this wilderness, yet so that we evidently...

Nostradamus Quatrains century 2 quatrain 46 interpretation

"Nostradamus quatrains: nostradamus quatrain century 2 quatrain 46 confirms the coming of a messiah who shall re-establish the lost human values and make the society living worthy. After great trouble for humanity... yes, it is almost after a period of 3600 years that one...

Brahma the Hindu god: A myth or an infallible truth?

"Brahma is that attribute of God Almighty which resulted in the creation of the Cosmos. Brahma is the Creative power of the Cosmos in Hinduism. Brahma is one of the three attributes of God Almighty. The two other attributes being the maintainer (god Vishnu) and the destroyer...

Too amusing...

Perhaps, one of these days, I'll read the now-published journal Father Yves-Marie Congar, O.P., kept during the sessions of the Second Vatican Council, although I doubt I'll discover much amusement in it: but there is an amusing post at the Undercroft about it and the...

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Lawyers, advisors allowed to wear veil in English, Welsh courtrooms (AFP)

" LONDON (AFP) - Lawyers and other legal advisors will be allowed to wear the Islamic veil in court, unless it interferes with the interests of justice, the head of the judiciary in England and Wales announced. The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, told...