When did the New Yorker become a magazine written by and for people who are deeply ignorant but imagine they are terribly bright? I can remember, as a boy in the 1970s, reading the magazine occasionally and thinking it was very clever. Yes, I mostly admired the cartoons, and yes, I was, well, just . . . . Continue Reading »
And to get annoyed when others do? Seriously, I don’t know. I “like” my Songbook posts, so my fb friends can figure out that I write for this blog. Once in a blue moon I’ll “like” a post here, such as Peter’s “Mender Not an Ender” one, but . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Any outcome that wasn’t an unspinnable defeat was good for the Obama campaign. Ever since the first presidential debate, the Obama campaign has suffered from the media interpreting everything they do as a desperate and probably misguided attempt to deal with the consequences of . . . . Continue Reading »
Almost precisely fifty years ago today, this was the scene in the streets of Rome, with Pope John XXIII delivering a “moonlight address” to the city upon the opening of the Second Vatican Council: Translation for non-Italian speakers here . Last night, evidently, the procession was . . . . Continue Reading »
This story has been picked up by pro-life and Roman Catholic publications but has been largely ignored by the mainstream media here in Ontario: Ontario Official: Catholic Schools Can’t Teach “Misogynistic” Pro-life.The Education Minister of Ontario, Canada — a professing . . . . Continue Reading »
From the United States’ Conference of Catholic Bishops: Last night, the following statement was made [by Vice President Joe Biden—the USCCB uses the passive here presumably to avoid charges of partisanship] during the Vice Presidential debate regarding the decision of the U.S. . . . . Continue Reading »
Peter J. Leithart on the Evangelical case for a Catholic sensibility : Few Evangelicals, though, would make sense of his further claim that “The working of God’s power among us is through the sacraments .” Jesus’ baptism—now, that was a mighty act, as the Father unzipped . . . . Continue Reading »
In America this week, the big legal news was the Supreme Court’s oral argument in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin , a case concerning the constitutionality of race-based affirmative action in higher education. This will be the second time in a decade that the Court has addressed . . . . Continue Reading »
Catholic Philosopher Chick Makes Her Début By Rebecca Bratten Weiss and Regina Doman Chesterton Press, 2012 346 pp. $20.00 print, $5.00 Kindle When Cate Frank experiences guy trouble, the former fashionista, recent Catholic convert, and philosophy Ph.D. student at Dominican University of . . . . Continue Reading »
Fifty Years Ago, “It Was a Splendid Day . . . ” Pope Benedict XVI, L’Osservatore Romano The Sugar Wars: What Constitutes Public Health? Trevor Butterworth, The Awl Slavery, Historical Heroes, and “Precious Puritans” Thomas Kidd, The Anxious Bench American . . . . Continue Reading »
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