April 2005
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What Did We Do To Deserve This? I’ve been spending far too much time looking at a computer screen and have developed some fairly severe pain in my neck and shoulders. Since I have to do it all day in my job, I’m going to have to greatly reduce the amount of time I spend…
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The Cardinal Prophet The buzz of the week has been the report that Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is the, or at least a, leading candidate for the papacy. I don’t think this is very likely, for reasons including his age and the fact that he was a member of the Hitler Youth and was drafted into…
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Journalists Baffled by Commutative Property For about thirty seconds last week I had the idea of keeping a count of all the news stories about John Paul II which included some variant of the motif that he was “liberal” (a good thing) on many broad political issues but “conservative” (a bad thing) on questions of…
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A Captain for the Storm Although I’m a lot older than the millions of people under thirty or so who remember no other pope than John Paul II, I did not become a Catholic until a couple of years into his papacy. So I’m like these young people in that my entire life as a…
Light On Dark Water 