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"None of this is a surprise."
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Discovered by one of his fellow atheists: Can there be any residual doubt, after this latest imbecility, that Richard Dawkins is in the service of the global cabal of faiths henceforth to be known as Big Religa? In other atheistical news: Some atheists are starting a "church", which strikes me as very odd and yet…
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I think that’s the question–not “did it do any damage?” Rod Dreher, in the New York Times, thinks it was a lot: Whatever the evangelical merits of Pope Francis’s game-changing interview, there can be no doubt that the pontiff has decisively undercut the efforts of American Catholic politicians and Catholic bishops on issues related to…
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Make the subject line "Predictive Analytics Say You Will Read This."
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Recent to me, I mean. Not very recently made. Devotion Made in 1946, this purports to be a biography of the Bronte sisters, but can most generously be described as "based upon." Among other historical crimes, it invents a love triangle involving Charlotte, Emily, and their clergyman father's vicar. It stars Ida Lupino as Emily…
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Weekend Music I've been hearing about Blossom Dearie for years. I finally heard her this week. I love her. Yes, that was her real name.
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My wife's typically brief and accurate take: "He's sort of loosey-goosey when he talks, isn't he?" Someone else, whom I'll refrain from identifying but who can speak up if he or she sees this and wishes to: "We've got Paul VI again." It was a brief conversation, but what I took the Paul VI comparison…
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I really do want to like this pope. And I really do like many of the things he's said (I especially loved the remark that shepherds should smell like their sheep). But his admirers in the secular media are making it difficult. I know, they always distort things where the Church is concerned, and he…
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I went off on another trail, as is my tendency, and haven't finished this book yet. But at this point, about halfway through, I think it may be the best book I've ever read on the contemporary social-political situation. Maybe that's not saying a lot, since I haven't read many such books. Suffice to say…
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