If I read him correctly, President-elect Obama seeks to blur the ethnic-cultural aspect of the individual to the point where we can, as a nation, achieve true "diversity," a oneness of purpose that will unite America with the people of the world in brotherhood and, no doubt, . . . . Continue Reading »
Apparently there being soul in cyberspace means that there’s adultery and divorce in cyberspace as well: "I went mad — I was so hurt. I just couldn’t believe what he’d done," Taylor told the Western Morning News. "It may have started online, but it existed . . . . Continue Reading »
” Life Is Short. Have an Affair. ” So says an ad campaign publicizing an online adultery-facilitation service. If you’re looking for a pithy expression of the hedonistic nihilism threatening to dominate our post-Christian age, it’s hard to improve on that tagline. Then . . . . Continue Reading »
A Tribute to Preoccupied Parents, Elder Siblings, and Longsuffering Relations (In all due Respect to their Little Angels) Playing with children is a glorious thing; but the journalist in question has never understood why it is considered a soothing or idyllic one. It reminds him, not of watering . . . . Continue Reading »
On the New Liturgical Movement today I found a recording of Carthusian chant from the film Into Great Silence . The author of the post on NLM can’t find the adjectives to describe the chant, and neither can I. It does not have the polished perfection of a professional recording, but much . . . . Continue Reading »
David G. Bonagura, Jr. of the University Bookman has written a nice review of two recent books by Aidan Nichols and Tracey Rowland that trace the theology of Pope Benedict XVI: The depth of Ratzinger’s thought . . . requires careful and measured analysis, more so now due to his elevation to . . . . Continue Reading »
One can surely make a reasonable argument that Sarah Palin was underqualified to be the next Vice President. Nevertheless, I argue here that the hyperventilated contempt shown for her by our cosmopolitan elites reveals a caricatured and ugly dismissal of the lives of ordinary Americans. It’s . . . . Continue Reading »
The Middle East Media Research Institute , MEMRI, issued a press release earlier this week that quotes the columnist ‘Abd Al-Nasser Al-Najjar writing for the Palestinian daily Al-Ayyam . The journalist argues that the Christian culture in Palestine needs to be preserved for the sake of . . . . Continue Reading »
What does it say about a town that their latest Community Action Project was the theft and sale of a two-story church ? . . . . Continue Reading »
The Dominicans report that one of their own has helped convert one of Serbia’s most notorious abortionists into an advocate for the unborn. The whole story is worth reading, but the critical part involves the appearance of a certain Angelic Doctor: In describing his conversion, Adasevic . . . . Continue Reading »
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