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The Bottum line 27 Aug 2013 | 01:35 am
Here's a roundup of some of the great pieces regarding that Jody Bottum call for heroic capitulation by the Church regarding gay marriage which were posted over the weekend: Mark Shea says that Bottu...
Bookmarking for Monday 24 Aug 2013 | 04:58 am
It's Friday, so I don't have time to do this justice, and most of you won't be seeing it until Monday anyway. But I want to bookmark it for a discussion sometime next week. It is, as someone said, j...
The Internet Catholic Masculinist 23 Aug 2013 | 04:51 am
Simcha Fisher today made me aware of this article by scholar and moral theologian Pia de Solenni on that remark of Pope Francis' about needing a theology of women in the Church. The article by de Sol...
Thinking about thinking about the liturgy 22 Aug 2013 | 06:16 am
Mark Shea recently admitted to the hideous personal failing of not being, you know, liturgically obsessed: I’m not at Mass to be entertained, charmed, fascinated by a dazzling personality, or amused....
My letter to gay Christians 21 Aug 2013 | 03:24 am
Yesterday over at Rod Dreher's blog, I wrote a rather long comment addressed to two gay male commenters who expressed frustration at the way they've been treated by Christians. I want to share that c...
For goodness' sake 20 Aug 2013 | 06:59 am
Msgr. Pope does it again with this post titled The Church is a bride, not a widow: But I want to say to all the negative ones: the Church is a Bride, not a widow. I have, in twenty-five years as a p...
The trouble with children's movies 17 Aug 2013 | 04:46 am
Here's a lovely breath of fresh air and sanity from Luke Epplin at The Atlantic: After finishing last in the race's first two legs, Dusty briefly takes over the lead before crashing into the Pacific ...
Does your smartphone use more power a year than your refrigerator? 16 Aug 2013 | 09:12 am
That's the provocative issue being discussed here: How much energy does it take to power your smartphone addiction? The average iPhone uses more energy than a midsize refrigerator, says a new paper ...
Why isn't this national news? 15 Aug 2013 | 01:30 am
I want to preface this post by saying that I'm not posting this as a kind of "See, abuse of children takes place in lots of places by lots of sick people, not just in the Catholic church by evil pries...
Rod Dreher and the culture war 14 Aug 2013 | 06:05 am
At his TAC blog today, Rod Dreher has posted on a variety of culture-war topics, resulting in the usual outcries from the usual sorts of people who believe in tolerance and the fair exchange of ideas ...
