December 2008
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By Matthew Lickona, at Inside Catholic. He liked it better than Janet Cupo and I did (see the comments on that post). I don’t really disagree with his appraisal of the Catholic themes, I just didn’t find it that effective as a movie. There was a line I really liked at the end, but now…
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Clare sent me this piece about a suburban English witch (apologies for the bimbo photos in the sidebar—seems to be SOP for the Daily Mail). It strikes me as half amusing, half slightly alarming. Most self-styled witches and pagans these days seem intent on separating themselves from the traditional notion of the witch as someone…
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If not, try to take a look tonight. The Moon-Jupiter-Venus conjunction is beautiful. I browsed around the net and found some great photos. Here are two from Weather Underground—click on them for the full-size images. I was vaguely aware of having seen a news story or two about this, but wasn’t even thinking about it…
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Sunday Night Journal — November 30, 2008 This is something of a follow-up to last week’s journal, and to some of the discussion that followed it. The topic there was the broad one of defiance of God, and the discussion began with the question of when the rejection by a Catholic of some part of…
Light On Dark Water 