An excellent analysis of the deep ideological divide between Europe and America by Natan Sharansky, the great Soviet dissident, in light of European response to the recent visit by President Bush to the Continent, which helps reveal that the strength of our country is connected to the congruence it maintains to the deep values which have informed it since its founding, and which President Bush exemplifies perhaps more than any other recent American president.
In northern Italy the first and largest of the Sacred Mountains of the Church is due to be restored to its fifteenth century glory for the faithful to see the recreation of a Holy Land pilgrimage, through the works of art and the sacredness of the 45 chapels, because, as the article from Chiesa notes:
“After the fall of Constantinople to Muslim domination, the pilgrimage to the Holy Land had become too dangerous. It was practically impossible. The response was to reproduce, in Italy, the routes and stations of the passion, death, and resurrection of Jesus. For a pilgrimage that could be made without leaving the country. Many little Jerusalems were reproduced in scenographic form, for the devotion and edification of the faithful.”
Lampstand Foundation website, http://www.lampstandfoundation.org/
"The sinner is at the very heart of Christianity. Nobody is so competent as the sinner in matters of Christianity. Nobody, except the saint." Charles Peguy (1873-1914)
About
- David H. Lukenbill
- I am a California native, married, we have one daughter and live close to the American River with two cats and all the wild critters we can feed. I am a management consultant to nonprofit organizations and have an Associates of Arts degree in Administration of Justice from Sacramento City College, a Bachelor of Science degree in Organizational Behavior from the University of San Francisco and a Master of Public Administration degree, also from the University of San Francisco.