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  • 52 Authors: The Complete List

    Week 1: Flannery O’Connor Week 2: Thomas Howard Week 3: Salman Rushdie Week 4: Mark Helprin Week 5: Henri de Lubac Week 6: Robert Scheckley Week 7: P. G. Wodehouse Week 8: Hans Urs von Balthasar Week 9: Ronald Blythe Week 10: Larry McMurtry Week 11: Imre Madach Week 12: J. R. R. Tolkien Week

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  • 52 Movies?

    I should have brought this up a couple of weeks ago. The next-to-last day of the year is pretty late.  Someone suggested 52 movies as a group project for next year. I'm willing, because I think it would be a good bit easier than 52 authors (52 books would have been more manageable). With movies,

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  • 52 Authors: Week 52 – Jean Daniélou

    Jean Daniélou was a French Jesuit. He was one of the famous group of French Jesuits who passed through the Jesuit house at Fourvière (in Lyon) in the 1920s and 1930s. The greatest member of the group was, without doubt, Henri de Lubac (who has received a very fine tribute from Robert Gotcher in our

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  • The Atlantic Looks at Christmas Songs

    They call it "12 Days of Christmas Songs," but they use the 12 days preceding Christmas, which may be ignorance or may be a bow to the reality that on December 26th most Americans will consider Christmas over. Anyway, I've only read a few of these, and they're a mixed bag to say the least, but

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  • Santa Cruz

    This has nothing at all to do with the season, but I was retrieving these photos from my phone and thought I'd post a couple of them. Last weekend I was visiting in the Silicon Valley area and we went to Santa Cruz one day. It's the sort of place that you immediately wish you

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  • 52 Authors: Week 51 – David Hume

    It is very surprising that Christians who are conservatives do not generally espouse a great admiration for David Hume (1711-1776). It’s true he was a critic of the religious apologetics of his time. But in its context, the natural theology of Hume’s time was rationalist. And if there is one thing which conservativism is against,

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  • Aversion to theological precision, cont.

    I started writing this as a comment on the post about the above allegation about Pope Francis. It kept getting longer so I decided to turn it into a separate post.   I'm not expressing venom or hatred toward the Pope. I state that without qualification, regardless of whether it may appear that way, because I know

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  • 52 Authors: Week 50 – George Orwell

    Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. —Orwell, “1984” This quote was very

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  • “a deep aversion to theological precision”

    That's Carl Olson speaking about Pope Francis at Catholic World Report. Someone posted this on Facebook a week or so ago, and I've been hanging on to the link, intending to say something here about it. Well, I'm about to leave town for five days and won't have time to do much in the way of

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  • River

    The title is in italics because it's the name of a TV show: yet another superior BBC crime drama. The twist, or gimmick you might say, in this one, is that the detective–the "River" of the title–has some pretty serious mental problems: he sees and has conversations with people who aren't really there. The story revolves

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