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October 2014

October 17, 2014

Kasper’s Bad Excuse

A friend sends his translation of the most important paragraph from the German Kath.net's report...

October 17, 2014

Socialist Pay

Gotcha arguments can be cheapshots, of the sort favored by conceited adolescent males, but sometimes...

October 17, 2014

We Have, We Thought, Someone On the Job Curing Ebola

As Ebola begins to look like it might be a major problem in this country...

October 16, 2014

Why Cats Hate Each Other

The simple answer is because they're evil — one of the products of the Fall...

October 16, 2014

R. H. Benson On Writing

R. H. Benson's Spiritual Letters to One of His Converts appeared in a bookseller's list when I...

October 16, 2014

Limbaugh is Killing Conservative Talk Radio

Conservative talk radio is dying, Paul Kengor argues, and it's the hosts' fault. A professor...

October 14, 2014

The Inhumanist John Gray

The Spiked! review begins promisingly with a favorite quote from G. K. Chesterton and goes on...

October 14, 2014

Brave New Apple & Facebook

The way the Brave New World is working out: Apple And Facebook Are Paying Employees...

October 13, 2014

Doctrine & Discipline

Writing on the Catholic World Report site in response to the eminent and irreplaceable canonist...

October 12, 2014

The Politician’s Character

The mayor of London and Tory star Boris Johnson, said to aiming at becoming prime...

October 12, 2014

Tricksy Marketing

Consumerist calls the practice "the grocery shrink ray." That's when "the manufacturers of food and...

October 10, 2014

She is a deathless immortal, born from the sea, radiant as the sun

Brilliant: A Troll on OKCupid.

October 10, 2014

Mystery Theology

I mentioned in Clerical Detectives my non-commendation of the compiler's recommendations, though I should also...

October 09, 2014

Clerical Detectives

A useful list of the surprising large number of clerical characters in mystery stories, defining...

October 09, 2014

No Personal Torah, Or, The Rabbi Should Not Have “Come Out”

“'Personal Torah.' What a jarring phrase, at least to ears like mine," writes Orthodox rabbi...

October 09, 2014

The Joys of Hygge

Embedded in an argument for the superiority of winter over summer is this interesting insight into...

October 09, 2014

Unitarians’ Unsplit Hairs

It's hard to tell from the report whether the new Bishop of Albany, Edward Snarfenberger,...

October 09, 2014

Liberal Protestant Philosemitic Anti-Semitism

“You spend so much time among anti-Zionists. How can you tell which ones, which minority,...

October 08, 2014

Christian Faith and Same-sex Attraction

For those in the Pittsburgh area: You will want to know about the conference being hosted...

October 08, 2014

Arkes on the Red Mass & the Supreme Court

"Praying for Justice Kennedy could indeed become the main work requiring and justifying the need...

October 08, 2014

Tracts, Predation, and Charity

I've had this experience a few times and it feels, I must say, predatory. You...

October 08, 2014

Ratzinger’s Reasonable Politics

"Politics belongs to the sphere of reason, the reason common to all, natural reason. Politics...

October 07, 2014

He Had Materials and a Particular Date

Much commended: Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig's Suffering and Suffering-With from Ethika Politika. It begins: When I...

October 07, 2014

The Sabbath & the Cell Phone

A new Shabbos app lets observant Jews use their cell phones on the Sabbath. Which...

October 07, 2014

Navigating the World: A Jewish Lesson

The article is titled The Shallowness of Men Who Won't Sit by Women, but comes close...

October 07, 2014

His Teacher Gave Him an F

Raschad Jennings, the starting running back for the New York Giants, is writing a book....

October 06, 2014

Not the Next Level You Dumb Girl With Dumb Parents

Cohabitation is a smack in the face . . . and for these reasons, explains...

October 06, 2014

Father Ricci Said: Watch Women

Last night I quoted Rocco Buttiglione on St. John Paul II and Father Gustavo Gutierrez....

October 05, 2014

Does Fr. Gutierrez Say Mass?

When John Paul II first went as pope to Latin America, he told their bishops,...

October 04, 2014

The Black Tim Tebow

"There are a lot of things different about Prince. For one, he's married, so he's...

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