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An interesting piece at the National Catholic Register. Reassuring to those of us who had been a little worried by some of the stuff we'd heard. But the remarks about the Traditional Mass being widely celebrated in Beunos Aires directly contradict what some others have said. I don't know which is right.
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The Lord sends us into spiritual combat. It is a fight to the death that he himself has undertaken, and one that we too are invited to identify as our own ultimate battleground, conscious that it is God's war…. What is at stake in this war? It is whether in my heart, as well as…
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Weekend Music Really this should be credited to Jack Bruce, as he does everything here except for Ginger Baker's high-hat cymbal. And the lyrics are by Pete Brown. I liked Cream's music well enough but was never a zealous fan, which is evident from the fact that this was by far my favorite track on…
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I’ve hated it reflexively since its beginning. But with time’s passage and deliberation, I’ve come to hate it with deeper, more variegated richness. I have to say that I pretty much feel the same. And when I say "since its beginning," I mean since I first heard its name, which makes it sound trivial and…
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I don't know much about Sam Harris, one of the belligerent "new atheists" ("What is new about them?", I always want to ask). But simply from having come across bits of his writing here and there on the web I have the impression that he's a very angry man. So it was only a little…
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From "The Aunt and the Sluggard"; Bertie has had to lend both his apartment and Jeeves to a friend, and is living alone in a hotel: You know, I rather think I agree with those poet-and-philosopher Johnnies who insist that a fellow ought to be devilish pleased if he has a bit of trouble. All…
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Probably you've heard a remark attributed to Baudelaire that goes something like this: The greatest trick of the devil is to persuade men that he does not exist. I suppose the following passage from one of his prefaces to Flowers of Evil, quoted by David Yezzi in the April issue of The New Criterion, must be…
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Yesterday I clicked on a news story with that title because I thought it would be amusing and was curious as to what the answer would be, and how it was determined. As it turned out, it was amusing more because of its slight earnest professor-analyzing-a-joke quality than for the light it shed on the…
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You may have noticed that the spam catcher is not catching anything, hasn't been all day today. I haven't changed anything that I know of, and reported the problem to TypePad earlier today, but so far no response. I may have to enable "captcha", which I very much hate.
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