Catholic Stuff
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Salon writer denounces Pope Francis for not being the secular progressive that secular progressives want him to be.
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And Catholic Answers, and other Catholic initiatives in the media world. During this past Lent, abstaining from listening to music in the car on my way to and from work, I listened to a certain amount of Catholic radio (we have a local station, Archangel Radio). Some of it was from EWTN, some from Catholic Answers,…
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Craig Burrell has written such an insightful and extensive review of David Bentley Hart's The Experience of God that I'm half-tempted to write a review of the review. But instead I'll just provide you with the link and recommend strongly that you read it for yourself. I bought the book a couple of months ago, in…
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I always feel a little embarrassed about admitting this, but the official cult of the saints is one aspect of Catholicism that I've never really taken to. I don't have any argument with the theology involved in the honoring of saints, and the practice of seeking their intercession; it's strictly a matter of temperament and culture,…
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I did a bit more for Lent this year than I usually do–not a great deal by any means, but a bit more. And I found it almost too easy, and over more quickly than I expected. I do not love Lent, and agree with the priest I heard on Ash Wednesday, that it really…
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For Holy Thursday, a very well-known setting of Psalm 51: I'm probably not going to post anything except, on Saturday. a guitar piece, between now and Sunday.
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One of my first reactions to Francis was that he has the gifts of a really good parish priest. Both John Paul II and Benedict XVI, especially the former, spoke strongly and warmly about marriage. And these remarks by Francis are not different in substance. But they have a personal and down-to-earth charm that communicate a…
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I guess it is my fate every Ash Wednesday to hear that song I detest at Mass (I can't bring myself to call it a hymn). It seems to have become the standard for the occasion. "The dreams not fully dreamt"? What does that even mean?!? Attempting to be charitable, I'll say that I think…
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I've posted these before, but it's been awhile. I don't have any new ones. We went to a couple of parades this year, but got no really good pictures. Mardi Gras is essentially over for me, though it's only Tuesday afternoon. I do hope to have some really self-indulgent meal this evening–maybe fried chicken. My…
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First, a piece in the National Catholic Register by Andrew Abela, dean of the School of Business and Economics at the Catholic University of America: taking his cue from the current and recent popes, he argues for the place of ethics–serious, non-libertarian, Christian ethics–in business; taking the economic system more or less as it is, he…
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