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So I finally watched the series that has been creating such a stir for several years now. It's very good. It's extremely good, in fact, in every technical sense: well-written, well-plotted, well-acted, well-photographed. And it's extremely gripping. I know at least three people who have watched a few of the roughly 60 one-hour episodes and…
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She is the garden enclosed and the solitary place, the nave all quiet and the lamp of recollection, the triumphal apse and the translucent altar. She is the living tabernacle and the eternal altar of repose. –Fr. Maurice Zundel
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By robots, of course. I actually rather like the music. And the video is impressive in a sci-fi sort of way.
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Weekend Music I'm a pushover for this sound, and the accompanying kitsch.
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"…most faculty wanted to keep full coverage [for abortion in the school's insurance plan], and felt that a total ban would signal that the university 'values diversity less than our Catholic affiliation.'" Good thing I long ago got over being impressed by doctoral degrees. I must say that this deserves some kind of special mention…
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I remain skeptical of the idea that the pope's outreach to non-believers is being received as anything but a concession. Here's a writer at the New York Times who is effusive in his enthusiasm that the Church might be coming to him: The only problem with Francis is his age. If he were 50, he…
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From a theater review by Kevin Williamson in The New Criterion ….the perennial question of why it is that actors are allowed to speak in public when there is nobody around to write lines for them…
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I think I'll let this be my last post on this book for now. It deserves a lengthy and well-considered review, but for various reasons I don't feel up to that. So I'll just point you to a series of essays at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute which comprise a pretty good discussion of the book. …
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"Space is curved, but not much for everyday life here on earth."
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