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Sentimental Rounding & the Hall of Fame
“In cases like Craig Biggio’s (74.8% of the vote) should the Hall of Fame round up to the required 75%?” asked an ESPN poll of its readers. And as...
The Rite of Blessing Automobiles
Fr. Joseph Wilson has let us publish his “Rite of Blessing Automobiles,” or rather the rite produced some years ago by Diocese of Ostergothenburg as a addition to the...
The Rite of Blessing Automobiles
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New York Encounter
For those in or near New York City, I commend this year’s New York Encounter, beginning on Friday evening, January 17th with a talk and a concert and ending...
Oriented Dogs
The world has its mysteries, and one of them is that dogs seem to know where magnetic north is, as shown by their orientation when they relieve themselves. The...
The Hobbit in Yiddish
Today’s eccentric item: How The Hobbit Learned Yiddish from Jewniverse. Computer programmer Barry Goldstein translated the book for fun, the work being “much less stressful than wrestling with a...
T. F. Torrance and Orthodoxy
The latest issue of Participatio takes up the relation of the work of the Scottish theologian T. F. Torrance and Orthodoxy. The very rich (and thick) volume includes a biographical...
Copts, Pentecostals, Muslims, and Humanists
Eight stories of religion in public life, three of them sad: On the suffering of Christians in Egypt, Silent Night, from Foreign Policy. On Pentecostalism in Malawi, Angels and Demons,...
The Revolutionary Manger
I commend to you Ross Douthat’s latest column, Ideas From a Manger . The classic manger scene is “an entire worldview in a compact narrative,” he writes. It’s about...
Hops, Honey, Clothes, and the Priesthood
Two old stories, but I just saw them, about a priest in the Bronx with unusual but attractive expressions of his calling: as a grower of hops and a...
Francis Speaks Again
“The Marxist ideology is wrong. But I have met many Marxists in my life who are good people, so I don’t feel offended,” says Pope Francis, in answer to...
Christians, Conservatism, and Jews
The satire may be a little heavy-handed in an Onion article on the Worldwide Jewish Conspiracy , but it does get at the way some people feel about Jews....
Christians, Conservatism, and Jews
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