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January 2015

January 16, 2015

Winthrop (and Christianity) v. Rand (and the Worship of the Self)

In contrast to Ayn Rand's refusal to recognize even relatives as having any claim upon...

January 16, 2015

Ayn Rand’s Onion

"I cannot like you or want to help you without reason," Ayn Rand wrote her...

January 07, 2015

The Corporatist & the Nihilist Extremes (aka Republicans v. Democrats)

"They are not besotted with the Pope as the Vicar of Christ. They are interested...

January 07, 2015

She Doesn’t Have to Be a Macho Girl

The movie was, if anything, an advertisement for virginity. The Smokers, an indy production I saw...

January 06, 2015

Still Trying For That Girl, No?

A friend writes on Facebook with a similar story that those I told in my last...

January 06, 2015

Speak Well, Says St. Francis de Sales

St. Francis de Sales is the patron of writers and journalists, and said a great many wise...

January 05, 2015

Rod Dreher Ashamed

Speak of others as you would have them speak of you is the rule for...

December 2014

December 31, 2014

You Do Not Want Most Worship Music to Repeat

This has lessons for liturgy, good and bad: an Italian researcher working with the University...

December 31, 2014

When People Try to Beat You Up With Words

Many people don't like other people living outside the middle class mainstream and insist on...

December 29, 2014

Spurgeon’s Insights

Something I stumbled upon while looking for something: the great nineteenth-century Baptist preacher Charles Haddon...

December 28, 2014

Anglicanless Christmas

Anglicans have written some of the greatest Christmas hymns, the ones Catholics sing at Christmas...

December 28, 2014

To Be Queen Elizabeth at Home

"For those of us who weren’t brought up cooking and sewing, modern conveniences make any...

December 26, 2014

The Ethical Use of Vaccines

A friend asks about the moral use of vaccines that were developed with or use...

December 26, 2014

Who Will Love This Boy For Me?

From Elizabeth Scalia's latest, this mother's insight into praying for other mothers with sons: Having...

December 26, 2014

Love Is Not Love

Another item from the past year I'd like to post again. By which, "love is...

December 26, 2014

Catholicism & Individualism

Individualism, according to the old Catholic Encyclopedia, is "The tendency to magnify individual liberty, as against external authority,...

December 25, 2014

Chesterton on Santa Claus

From Commonweal in 1935: G. K. Chesterton's Santa Claus and Science. One point he makes:...

December 24, 2014

A Practical Way to Say “Merry Christmas”

"Merry Christmas, I mean if you celebrate it," said a women to whom I'd given...

December 23, 2014

Miss Rand Celebrates Christmas

More on Miss Rand, covered earlier in Ayn Rand As Some People Have (Alas) Never Seen...

December 23, 2014

Watch Out for Nice People

Another repeat, this one offered for its relevance for this season in which it is...

December 23, 2014

Helping Readers

Just got a comment quoting a sentence from an item and saying "This sentence needs...

December 23, 2014

Ayn Rand As Some People Have (Alas) Never Seen Her

We (Patheos Catholic bloggers) have been instructed to feature older material in order to better...

December 22, 2014

Catholic Politics, More Charitable & a Little Softer

A contribution to the description of a movement among politically conservative Catholics I described in...

December 22, 2014

Seeing Africa

Interesting and useful: 8 Maps That Will Change the Way You Look at Africa. The site...

December 22, 2014

Another Name for the Old Testament

In response to Speaking to Jews, New Testament scholar Leroy Huizenga writes on Twitter: "My...

December 19, 2014

Father James Martin, S.J., Feeds the Trolls

Hysterical and absolutely accurate: Father James Martin's reconstruction of email discussions about his writing, What's THAT...

December 19, 2014

Business & Business

Two good tweets from Arthur Brooks (@arthurbrooks), the president of the American Enterprise Institute: What...

December 19, 2014

Speaking to Jews

Do not ask someone who might be Jewish if he's "a Jew." I would have...

December 18, 2014

Chesterton on Osteen

Not directly, of course. Responding to yesterday's Joel Osteen, Gosh, my friend Kevin Flaherty, head...

December 17, 2014

Joel Osteen, Gosh . . .

Not a shock: megachurch celebrity tv star preacher Joel Osteen doesn't know the Bible, reports...

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