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Also from his visit to Germany: In order to accomplish her true task adequately, the Church must constantly renew the effort to detach herself from the 'worldliness' of the world. … One could almost say that history comes to the aid of the Church here through the various periods of secularisation, which have contributed significantly…
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Where God is, there is a future. Indeed, when we allow God's love to influence the whole of our lives, then heaven stands open. … Then the little things of everyday life acquire meaning, and great problems find solutions. –Benedict XVI, speaking in Germany yesterday
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Weekend Music Nobody like him. Never was, never will be. I'm not a hard-core jazz fan, but somehow over the years I've acquired more recordings by him than of any other non-classical artist. Today is his birthday. This is from my favorite period, between the beautiful but more conventional early and the completely unstructured (as…
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This (via someone on Facebook) and this. Sure will be interesting if it turns out to true, though.
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You needn't be. My Ugandan correspondent has notified me that Uncle Benon is back. (Warning: there is a pretty gruesome image near the end, at approximately 1:40.)
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Click on the comic at the beginning of this post at There Are Real Things (aka the Incarnationalist International). The "How It Should Have Ended" videos are funny, although I'm too hazy about the Terminator movies to get all of that.
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Seventy-seven! This is one of his less well-known songs, and an old favorite of mine. It's on Songs From A Room, the first of his albums I ever heard. I knew the song "Suzanne" from recordings by others and wasn't crazy about it, but Songs From A Room made me a convert. Mike Wright, wherever you are,…
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It seems to be a popular rhetorical device these days to describe any opposition to something you favor as a declaration of war against it. The first time I remember hearing it was some twenty years ago, during one of the periodic battles over the National Endowment for the Arts, in which conservatives object to…
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Sunday Night Journal — September 18, 2011 Now and then I talk to someone who’s visited Rome, and almost always, especially if the person is Catholic, I’m told that it’s a wonderful experience. And I say “Yes, I’m sure it is,” but I always feel a little guilty that I don’t feel more enthusiasm for…
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My local paper has a daily "Today in History" feature which includes a list of famous people whose birthdays fall on the day. I read it frequently, I think with a somewhat morbid fascination, bothering my wife with news items such as "Oh look, this actress who was a beautiful girl in that movie is…
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