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Rejection Is Good

One of the respondents to my Writers Need Rejection objected to (I’m assuming) the title and the writer I quoted who called rejection a “benefit.” He wrote: Rejection per se is not especially useful, but the experience Tom Gilson describes is—a rejection that . . . . Continue Reading »

The Jesuits and the Jews

Jewish Leaders Welcome Francis described the response to his election from people like the head of the World Jewish Congress and the president of Israel. But there is more to be said, of course, and Jewish writers are beginning to say it. In Is a Jesuit Good For Jews? , the Weinberg Chair of Judaic . . . . Continue Reading »

GIRLS, THE BIG BANG THEORY, and Pop Culture

1. I’m stuck with any nunber of real deadlines right now, and so I can’t devote my attention as much as I should to either POP CULTURE or BLOGGING. 2. I’m completely PRO-CHOICE on whether conservatives should be attuned to pop culture. I would say it’s a harmless vice, one . . . . Continue Reading »

Homosexuality and Impatience for Joy

I’ve been rereading Josef Pieper’s  lovely little exposition of Aquinas on hope , and it strikes me as being very much in line with the point I was trying to make in my last post that quoted Vaclav Havel . Pieper writes: “The concept of the  status viatoris  is . . . . Continue Reading »

The Bible is a Huge Hit, I Hear

This is just my two cents on the pop culture scene. I am guilty of not watching television and being routinely clueless about the pop culture scene. Here, I lurk in wonder at who the hell has time to watch TV programs regularly.  What I will do is catch up with some show friends rave . . . . Continue Reading »

On the Square Today

Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., on Pope Francis and Christians in the Middle East : The Chaldean and Syriac Catholic Churches of Iraq and Syria, while differing in rite and tradition from the Latin West, are integral members of the universal Catholic Church, in full communion with the . . . . Continue Reading »

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