June 2007
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Clearly, that's what I'm doing. I was wondering why there hadn't been more uproar in the Catholic blog world about Bishop Trautman's attack on the new translations. No sooner do I sit down to write about it than it appears at Open Book and, apparently, all over the place. Amy has quotes from and links…
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Hey, Bishop, Leave Those Texts Alone I knew fairly soon after I became a Catholic twenty-five years ago that I was not going to be the sort who takes a great interest in the intramural affairs of the Church. Vatican politics, the niceties of liturgical rubrics, canon law: none of that interests me very much,…
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Brian Eno: Another Green World As I’ve mentioned before, I make it a rule to listen to a work at least three times before formulating any judgment on it. That’s not always the end of the story, of course—sometimes I change my mind after six or eight or a dozen hearings. But three is the…
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Via Amy Welborn via Matthew Lickona, here is a roughly ten-minute video of Walker Percy's address on receiving the Laetare Medal at Notre Dame in 1989. If you know his work, this is a chance to get a sense of what the man himself was like. If you don't, his speech provides the frame of…
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It's a great frustration to me that circumstances rarely permit me to read at length. I read a good deal, but it's in five- or ten-minute snippets. As part of my ongoing effort to visit the classics I missed several decades ago, I started Tom Jones a few weeks ago, when I had several days…
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And speaking of Eve Tushnet, I'll be adding a link to her blog on the sidebar shortly. She writes there relatively sparsely and infrequently, and sometimes on interests I don't share, such as comics, certain TV shows, and cooking, but always insightfully enough to make it worthwhile for me to stop in every few days.…
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Over the past day or so I’ve been reading, in free moments here and there, this Commonweal exchange between Luke Timothy Johnson and Eve Tushnet. After finishing Johnson’s part I thought I would link to it under a subject something like “Interesting Dialog on Homosexuality.” But with all due respect to Mr. Johnson (a well-known…
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Movie Roundup, Continued Note: I’ve been assuming in these notes that you’re assuming that these movies are basically for adults, and haven’t noted contraindications for children. Most of these are more or less unsuitable for children, but it doesn’t matter because they wouldn’t be interested anyway. Some have nudity or, as they say in the…
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Terri Hendrix: Places In Between As with a great deal of music that I like, I owe my acquaintance with this artist to my old friend Robert Woodley. Places In Between is an uneven album, but it’s made me want to hear more of Hendrix’s work, a testimony partly to the merits of the music…
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