December 2008
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Those who frequent Catholic sites on the web have no doubt seen the above headline a number of times already, but I want to add my voice to the chorus, with perhaps a slightly different twist. I haven’t actually read very much of Cardinal Dulles’s work, though from what I know he deserved the esteem…
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Why do we say the year is “oh-eight” and not just “eight”? Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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Eve Tushnet portrays it movingly in this story. I haven’t read anything else on that site; it certainly looks promising. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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I’ve been doing a sort of experiment for…let’s see…about a week now, I think. Inspired by Janet Cupo’s plan to go mostly off-line for Advent, but not willing to go that far, I’ve given up reading a couple of blogs that maintain a pretty high level of angry argument, mostly on socio-political questions. (One of…
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Question: is there anything more wonderful? Answer: No, not really. As wonderful, yes: Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, and Sibelius all have their works equal to this. But more wonderful? I don’t think so. I last heard this work some years ago, perhaps eight or ten, at Brevard, North Carolina, where there is a well-known summer…
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Sunday Night Journal — December 7, 2008 This is still another follow-up on the topic of sin and defiance. In email conversation with a friend (two different friends, actually) after last Sunday’s journal, I tried to articulate what I believe to be the essence of sin, and this is what I came up with: it…
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I refer, of course, to western civilization. Although I’ve almost given up talking about politics here, I still like to issue the occasional bulletin in support of the idea that we’re finished, it’s over, the lights are going out. Today’s evidence: at this moment the following headline can be seen on CNN’s web site: Nicole…
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Amiina is the group of four young women who comprise the string section for Sigur Rós in their Heima concerts, and I think on some of their studio recordings as well. Having discovered from the credits of Heima that they are a musical unit in their own right, I went looking for more information and…
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I’ve been keeping these magazines since I first subscribed in 2000, because there are usually at least a couple of things in every issue that I’d like to re-read. But the time has come to face the fact that I’m very unlikely to look at them again, considering all the books I still haven’t read,…
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