Catholic Stuff
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What is asked of us is that we wrestle in faith with God and with whatever opposes us in the world. It is not the faith of cheerful fables that is demanded of us in these times, but rather a hard faith–for the softening and accomodating enchantment is falling away from all things, and everywhere…
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What do you think? I'm not sure…it's snazzier, but is it appropriate for First Things?
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I'm pretty sure it was 1992 when I first heard Rush Limbaugh, because I remember him talking about Bill Clinton's presidential campaign. It's hard for people who weren't around, and of conservative sympathies, at that time to understand how much fun it was when he came on the scene. Almost all the media, electronic and…
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(This post has been sitting around almost finished for a week or two; time to go ahead and get it out of the way.) It's unfortunate that the political aspects of Evangelii Gaudium have so overshadowed its focus on evangelization. But since they have, I find myself wanting to respond further to it and to…
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…desire truth and goodness, for desire fits one to receive what one desires… There is God, the Supreme Spirit. We can know almost nothing about Him; we can know that He exists by reason; so far as He can be revealed to our finite minds at all, He is revealed by Christ. We can't receive…
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What excitement we had at Mass yesterday! At the recessional, priest, acolyte, and thurifer headed down the aisle, singing, along with the little congregation, "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen," led as usual by the acolyte, who has the strongest voice. The thurifer, a seminarian whose identity I won't publish, is, along with the priest, a…
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I ran across a 50-cent copy of Randall Jarrell's Poetry and the Age a while back, and have been reading it a little at a time. He closes the first essay with this quotation; I mention that because I think it would be dishonest for me to leave you thinking I've read Proust: All that we…
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I hope Our Lady would take the title of this post in the affectionate tone in which I first heard it, which was from the lips of a college teacher in reference to his own wife's gravid condition. She was within earshot, if I remember correctly, and seemed to be more amused than not. This…
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Not me. I hadn't been planning to, and I didn't see the first one, either–considerable after-the-fact reflection on the Lord of the Rings movies had left me wanting no more of Peter Jackson's treatment of Tolkien. Not that the movies were all bad by any means, but enough Hollywood-izing was enough, and then some. And what…
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Or rather a problem, I should say, but a fairly big one. I brought it up the other day to someone who has studied economics and worked in that field. She had never heard of it, so later I went looking around on the web for some sort of quick intro. And almost everything I found…
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