Wednesday, January 23, 2013
I'll Be Live-Blogging DC March for Life Events...
Hello everyone! This is just a post to let everyone know that my colleague Alberto Gonzalez and I will be live-blogging various events surrounding the DC March for Life, starting Thursday (Jan 24th) morning and continuing through Saturday (Jan 26th) evening, on the Twitter account for Aleteia.org, @AleteiaNetwork. Our coverage will include text, pictures, and videos of various events including:
- prayer vigil outside of a Washington DC Planned Parenthood
- Law of Life Summit
- March for Life Youth Rally
- Prayer Vigil at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
- Archdiocese of Washington DC Youth Rally at the Verizon Center
- March for Life Rally and March
- Rose Dinner
- 1st Annual Nellie Gray 5k run/walk in West Potomac Park
- Cardinal O'Connor Life Conference
- Students for Life of America Conference
- and the LCMS Life Conference
Here are some posts I've written in the past on abortion:
- The March for Life, evangelicals, and the pro-life cause
- The US Catholic bishops were the real enemy - in 1968 (to pro-choicers)
- The mealtime prayer to end abortion that's going to take over the world
- I'm 24 today and I'm an abortion survivor (with my baby pictures!)
- The Numbers May Shock You...
- An Unwanted Change in the Abortion Debate?
Lastly, here's the great video the BadCatholic Marc Barnes made of the March for Life in 2012:
God have mercy on us all. Let us pray for an to this grave injustice in our nation and world!
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Stumbled on your blog -- greetings from a fellow Wheaton (BA '79, MA '85) Catholic -- my journey started at Wheaton but it took me 20 years to find my way home to Rome -- now I'm academic dean at a Catholic seminary! http://gresham.kenrickparish.com/
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ReplyDeleteMay I ask you a question about an older blog post? (I should add that I've read huge portions of your blog after stumbling across it a few days ago--I'm a Protestant who is becoming convinced that Rome is right and always has been--and you have very good information, always given in a spirit of charity.) In your post "10 Quick Things Every Evangelical Should Know" (from Saturday, September 11, 2010) you say that "Martin Luther's [German bible translation] was not the first - the Catholic Church had already made at least 18 different full translations of the Bible into German." I've been able to find references elsewhere to those translations, some references giving the number as low 13 and others as high as 20, but I can't find anything substantive about them. Could you give more information about them, please, or say where I could find such information?
Also, do you know where information can be found on the reasons certain vernacular Scripture translations were placed on the Index of Forbidden Books? I've heard it's because of their inaccurate renderings or anti-Catholic notes, but I'd like to know the specifics.
Thank you!
Reuben
Hello Reuben,
DeleteGreat to hear from you, and that's awesome to hear that you are on your way to the Catholic Church. I'll say a prayer for you. Thanks for the encouragement on what I've written.
Regarding the German Bible translations, I first heard that from a librarian at Mt Angel Abbey in Oregon. I visited the Abbey the summer of 2009, and he showed me and my friend their rare book collection. One of the the rare books he showed us he claimed was a pre-Luther German Bible. He said there were 18 translations of the Bible into German before Luther's Bible, and that their copy was one of a few copies still extant of that particular translation and so was very valuable. I can't remember if and where I might have also read similar things. The Wikipedia page on the subject also has the number 18 for the number of translations of the Bible into German before Luther, as well as many more translations of certain parts of the Bible: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_translations_into_German#Pre-Lutheran_German_Bibles
Regarding certain translations of the Bible being Forbidden at one time or another, I have ready things about that but can't find anything off hand. What I remember is that yes, as you said, certain translations, often produced by heretics and were considered faulty, were banned - not because the Church was against the Bible. The idea that Bible was intentionally kept from people is ludicrous. The Church herself made innumerable translations of the Bible into the vernaculous over the centuries, including sometimes inventing whole alphabets to do so (I'm think of Ss Cyrl and Methodius as an example). Of course, Scripture is also always read at Mass and preached on in the homily as well.
Sorry I can't be of more help on these two questions. Feel free to email me if you'd like to talk more or share some of your background/story! (bcmillegan@gmail.com)
God bless!