November 2011
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In The New Yorker, by far the most fascinating thing I've read about OWS. Speaking of the movement a few days ago, I said "After all, if you want people to buy your product, you have to advertise." And I thought I was pointing out an irony. Not at all: it was from the very…
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Oh, the waste! (I do not in fact have any real opinion about the substance in question; it's just so odd in a very English way that I can't resist making fun of it.)
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That's the way it struck me at Mass yesterday. It really wasn't that big a deal, because it really isn't that big a change. Following a few links around the web today on this subject, I found this dreary look into a mentality I haven't paid much attention to in recent years: progressive Catholics angry about…
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Sunday Night Journal — November 27, 2011 About that ballet A month or so ago I wrote about my intention to watch a George Balanchine ballet that was being broadcast on PBS. I recorded it then, and finally found time to watch it this week. I'm sorry to have to report that I didn't really…
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"the right is the party of tragedy" From Reihan Salam at National Review Online. The full sentence: At its best, the right is the party of tragedy and the impossibility of creating a perfectly just human society, but also of optimism about the potential of voluntary cooperation to help us achieve (modest) moral and (immodest)…
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It's that time of year again, when I get a 50% increase in my blog traffic because of people searching for Advent pictures. This one is really popular. Seems like a disproportionate number come from Scandinavia. I hope some of them hang around and read a bit.
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I've come to expect that when I hear someone say this it will be followed by something dumb and probably nasty about the Church. Nancy Pelosi delivers. Pelosi strikes me as one of the more odious politicians around, and there's a lot of competition. I don't think I've ever heard an actual devout Catholic say "I'm…
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Sunday Night Journal — November 20, 2011 Today is the feast of Christ the King. The archdiocese of Mobile has a traditional celebration of this occasion which still involves an actual public procession. I was going to say that that’s probably a rare thing in this country in these days, but I decided to look…
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So, a week from today we begin using the new translations ("we" in this case being not just Catholics but Latin Rite Catholics). I'm wondering how much and how effectively other parishes have been preparing for this. In my case, I think not so well, unless it's been different at other Masses besides the one…
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Weekend Music I was too busy yesterday and today even to think about choosing a piece of music for this usual weekly feature, so was going to just skip it, but then Robert emailed me this. You'll enjoy it (even if they aren't always right in sync with those cards).
Light On Dark Water 