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Na� scholar karpatskij napisal zdes�:

The monthly magazine of the Greek Catholic Basilian Fathers in Slovakia, Blahovistnik, published an article just a few years ago which stated that for an unmarried couple (in courtship, presumably) to hold hands is objectively sinful.

So? They�re wrong.

In the same span of a couple issues, they also denounced fortune-telling

Righto.

homeopathic medicine

Wrong.

Darwinism

Right. Even evolution is only a theory.

and martial arts.

Wrong. Jackie Chan movies are an occasion of laughter (with the master, not at him), not of sin. Self-defense usually without weapons � sinful? I don�t think so.

Even advanced Orthodox among the Byzantine Catholics, as you say these men are, are fallible.

Serge

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I couldn't agree more, John. This is why I like Jackie Chan's movies as opposed to many of those by Steven Seagal or others. Violence for the sake of violence is pathetic IMHO. Chan however is not only an excellent marital arts expert who does his own stunts, but is very funny too!

Pax Christi,
John