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 »
Niall Ferguson offers a sweeping historical explanation — the clearest and broadest I’ve seen — of the financial crisis, including a delicious (to me) critique of the arrogant "quants" (quantitative whiz-kids) who created a "Planet Finance" in the sky and led . . . . Continue Reading »
There is a terrible mental illness called Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID), aka “amputee wannabe” because the sufferer becomes obsessed with having healthy limbs cut off. I have written before that some are actually arguing that a proper treatment for the disorder would be to cut . . . . Continue Reading »
Barbara Walters joins People and Oprah Winfry before her (three of our most destructive cultural wrecking balls) in cooing over Thomas Beatie, the “man” who gave birth. Why is he back in the news? Well, apparently Beatie is pregnant again, and despite early on having claimed to be . . . . Continue Reading »
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