I know that Joe mentioned this piece in his Friday ” First Links ” post, but it bears noticing again: Scott Walter’s column ” Hoyas Whip the Irish ,” at The Catholic Thing. Scott catalogues what he can, in fewer than 1,000 words, of the appallingly un-Catholic goings-on that characterize Georgetown University today. This is a sad state of affairs at the oldest Catholic university in the United States, and a caution to Catholic parents considering Georgetown as a destination for their kids.
Notes on Anosmia
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Empire of Unreality
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The Dreadful Christ of Pär Lagerkvist
It’s dangerous to meet a god,” says the disgraced Pythia in Pär Lagerkvist’s The Sibyl. Her observation…