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Middle East update - for the record 27 Aug 2013 | 07:50 pm
Walid Shoebat and Ben Barrack, "Evidence: Syrian Rebels used Chemical Weapons (not Assad)" (Walid Shoebat, August 27, 2013). How does our rush to military action in Syria make any sense? Background: ...
More ironies: what do Obama and Ratzinger have in common? 27 Aug 2013 | 07:41 pm
They have both opposed devoted adherents to tradition: Obama and his administration regard traditional Americans -- Tea Party zealots -- as a threat and have listed them among potential terrorist thr...
American Anti-Americanism, Catholic Anti-Catholicism? 27 Aug 2013 | 06:37 am
I recently read a bit of an online article by Maureen Scott. One sentence -- a question she asked -- made me think: "Have we ever heard Obama speak lovingly of the U.S. or its people, with deep apprec...
Sedia occupata: Throne of St. Peter vacated by Pope Francis occupied subsequently by Argentine soccer star 27 Aug 2013 | 05:30 am
Ezequiel Iván Lavezzi, known as el Pocho or the Chubby One, seated in the Papal Chair in the photo above, is surrounded by his jubilant team mates. Two accounts: one by David Werling, "El Poncho, The...
Sacred Heart Major Seminary to offer workshop on the Extraordinary Form liturgy in October 26 Aug 2013 | 09:12 pm
Fr. Dan Jones, Professor of Patristics at Sacred Heart Major Seminary, announced on August 23, 2013 that the Seminary has invited the Canons Regular of St. John Cantius of Chicago (pictured above with...
"The Elite Project of Gay Marriage" 26 Aug 2013 | 07:59 pm
R.R. Reno writes, in "On the Square" (First Things, August 26, 2013), that same-sex marriage is eminently a bourgeois project that aims to enshrine libertinism as a national way of life. [Hat tip to ...
Priest as "bartender"? 26 Aug 2013 | 07:51 pm
The eminent sociologist, Peter Berger, in "Cardinal Newman and the Progressive View of the World" (The American Interest, August 21, 2013), after discussing the conservatism of Newman both before and ...
Why does Pope Francis want people to call him "tu"? 26 Aug 2013 | 07:17 pm
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith, "With the use of one word, Pope Francis is signalling to the Vatican insiders that their day is over" (Catholic Herald-UK, August 23, 2013): ... “He said to me, do you think ...
Comparing the two lectionaries: "less Scripture in the heart"? 26 Aug 2013 | 07:10 pm
Fr. Ray Blake, "More on the two Lectionaries" (August 23, 2013): In response to the question whether there is any merit in the older form ("OF") lectionary, Fr. Blake explains that it was never abroga...
"Now that we're all haters ..." (reframing the marriage debate) 26 Aug 2013 | 06:52 pm
Reframing the marriage debate is necessary in order to communicate to a brainwashed culture and salvage what we can. Brian Brown offers a helpful discussion in "Now That We're All Haters" (The Withers...
