Nathaniel calls our attention to Bishop Trautman’s difficulties with the word ineffable as reported in the Erie Times-News . The same newspaper article relates the following: Trautman called parts of the proposed translation “archaic” and “just clumsy language.” One . . . . Continue Reading »
The BBC’s science and technology magazine Focus has a feature on the “most dangerous jobs in the world.” They include HazMat teams, snake venom farmers, vulcanologists—and animal researchers. From the story (no link available) that includes what has happened to our friend and . . . . Continue Reading »
“A fairly large proportion of the distinguished novels of the last few decades have been written by Catholics and have even been describable as Catholic novels.” So began a New Yorker book review , penned by a prominent and decidedly non-Catholic author. Needless to say, you’ll have to dig . . . . Continue Reading »
Cloning reduces procreation to a matter of mere manufacture and transforms human life into an instrumentalized natural resource, whether that life is a nascent cloned embryo created and destroyed for its stem cells or women exploited for their eggs—since an egg is required for each cloning . . . . Continue Reading »
Whilst a woman in the UK with MS seeks the right to have her husband take her to Switzerland for assisted suicide to the cheers of euthanasia advocates and the media, other MS patients have been effectively treated with their own bone marrow stem cells. From the press release: “All patients . . . . Continue Reading »
Does the word “ineffable” belong in the liturgy? Donald Trautman, the Catholic bishop of Erie, PA, doesn’t think so, the Erie Times-News reports . Ordinary Catholics won’t know the meaning of the word, he said, so it shouldn’t be in the liturgy. The Times-News reporter . . . . Continue Reading »
I’ve been at Princeton for the past couple of days attending a seminar on social science and gender, marriage, and sex . It’s sponsored by the Witherspoon Institute and directed by a young star sociologist at the University of Virginia, Brad Wilcox. In today’s Wall Street Journal . . . . Continue Reading »
Nine months ago, Russians celebrated Baby-Making Day . They didn’t call it that, exactly, but the propaganda was no less subtle: “Remember the mammoths?” said the speakers at a reproductive youth camp known as Nashi. “They became extinct because they didn’t have enough . . . . Continue Reading »
Today, with the help from my friends at the Shrine of the Holy Whapping , I discovered the French TV show Kamelott . It’s a comedy show set in Arthurian times with colloquial modern language, and its episodes are all under five minutes in length. My favorite so far has been “The Perfect . . . . Continue Reading »
He was, over his long life, the indefatigable teacher, enthusiastically discovering with each new generation of students at Fordham University the inexhaustible riches of the Angelic Doctor. In season and out, he sought to demonstrate, in the face of every new philosophical fashion or school, that . . . . Continue Reading »
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