I know, I know. It’s a little early to be thinking about UNIQUE Religious Catholic Advent Calendars.This one is noteworthy, however, in that it gives away, immediately, what it is you await with intense longing all through Advent. Forget the prophetic allusions. Forget the O Antiphons. Forget . . . . Continue Reading »
Via Howard Friedman , a report that the high court of South Korea has banned columbariums even in churches when those columbariums—columbaria?—are near schools. The problem is that any reminder of death is “likely to have a negative emotional impact on students.” Negative how? . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s another segment of my “What Was History (with a Capital H)?” For now, I skipped over the part that both connected and distanced “Historical” thinking from Christian thought. I’m still working on key details of that. Modern thinkers aren’t quite . . . . Continue Reading »
Have you heard the “ Breakfast Song ”? It is a big hit on Youtube, with about a million hits. It is both very funny and very serious. About six months after this performance, Minister Cleo Clariet was indeed “called home” by his Lord. In the introduction to his song, Minister . . . . Continue Reading »
“The British pub was once a mainstay of working-class morality:” All over Britain, in town and village, in the suburbs and in the countryside, you will come across public houses, some still named from the animals—hare, hound, deer and fox; horse, cow, pig and cockerel—through . . . . Continue Reading »
At First Principles , Ralph C Wood reviews Julia Stapleton’s Christianity, Patriotism, and Nationhood: The England of G.K. Chesterton : In her still unsurpassed biography of G. K. Chesterton from 1943, Maisie Ward declared that the three great loves of the great man’s life were “his . . . . Continue Reading »
Economist Arnold Kling reframes an ideological metaphor : Think of three points on an ideological triangle: 1. Point L, where you believe that markets are effective at processing information and solving problems. This position is to take a radically pro-market view, and to let markets fix their own . . . . Continue Reading »
A few weeks ago Fr. Joseph Augustine Di Noia, O.P. was ordained to the episcopate in a grand ceremony in Washington, DC. Before he was an Archbishop, the new Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments wrote “ Jesus and the World Religions ,” . . . . Continue Reading »
So let’s continue our redecoration of Sally’s House with crosses. The picture I thought I had found of the house yesterday turned out to be her old house; her new one is much lovelier. And lovelier still, will it be, when we’re done?For the living room, we already have a sofa and . . . . Continue Reading »
In his post on Michael Crichton , Joseph asked, “Was there ever a popular writer more in love with the gadgets of science—and more suspicious of science itself, or, at least, of scientists?” Crichton’s complicated feelings about science reminded of Francis Bacon’s claim . . . . Continue Reading »
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