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Well, here's a major argument-starter. Peter Leithart in First Things argues that Protestantism is over, that Protestants should stop calling themselves Protestants and call themselves "Reformational catholics" instead. I sympathize, and of course speaking as a Catholic I think it's a step in the right direction, but: Like a Protestant, a Reformational catholic rejects papal…
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I mean, really: College football coaches trademarking their names? (Warning: that link goes to one of those annoying pages that starts a video automatically. But there's a print story there.)
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The un-ecumenical days, when books like this were published: The Lenten Lectures of Rev. Thomas Maguire; delivered in Dublin in 1842, in answer to the Thirty-nine articles of the Church of England Lecture V is: The Absurdities, Contradictions and Blasphemies of the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Parliamentarian Rule of Faith of the Episcopalian Protestants Yesterday…
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That’s the title of this piece by Charles Cooke at National Review Online. While I sympathize with at least some of the Tea Party’s complaints and proposals, I also have my disagreements with it, and in general find its rhetoric simplistic if not entirely wrong. I don’t believe, for instance, that excessive taxation is, in…
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Weekend Music I'm not sure exactly when it started, but when I noticed it sometime in the mid-1990s or so there was a surf guitar revival going on. It started out as a straightforward imitation of the old stuff, with a bit of irony thrown in, as in that clip by The Metalunas that I…
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We have AT&T's voicemail service instead of an answering machine, and it sends me an email message whenever someone leaves a message. I got this one a little while ago: A non-urgent voice message was just received from "CHRIST THE KING, tel: 2516262343"
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I'm not sure how many readers of this blog are interested, but here is an interesting piece on the situation of Anglo-Catholics since the establishment of the Ordinariate. One word summary: untenable. The author is addressing the Church of England, but what he says is broadly applicable to American Episcopalians of Catholic inclination as well. …
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Update: My apologies: I thought this poem was available to non-subscribers, but apparently it's not. I'll leave the post here because you can still enjoy the anecdote. It's even possible that you may run across a copy of the magazine somewhere. Thanks to Louise for pointing this out to me. — I don't find most…
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Weekend Music Musicians and sound engineers use "wet" and "dry" to mean more and less reverb. What came to be called the "surf" guitar style always featured very heavy reverb. I'm pretty sure the sound predates the association with surf, which seems to have been pretty much originated by Dick Dale in the early 1960s.…
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Christian morality is not a titanic effort of the will, the effort of someone who decides to be consistent and succeeds, a solitary challenge in the face of the world. No. Christian morality is simply a response. It is the heartfelt response to a surprising, unforeseeable, "unjust" mercy…. The surprising, unforeseeable, "unjust" mercy…of one who…
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