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August 2014

August 13, 2014

Mike Aquilina’s *Terms & Conditions*

The prolific Catholic writer, EWTN personality, and notable public speaker Mike Aquilina is, I should...

August 13, 2014

What the Hell, Land’s End?

The message I just sent to Land's End, which is apparently sending out as a...

August 12, 2014

It’s a Funny Old World 7

German men receive one in five of all those done in the world, and more...

August 12, 2014

Hamas & the Rule of Distinction

"One can readily see," writes George Washington professor Amitai Etzioni, perhaps most famous now for...

August 12, 2014

Holy Disruptions

The year I wrote A Great & Glorious, but Debated, Assumption, that holy day of...

August 11, 2014

The 10 Commandments in Text Language

God Texts the Ten Commandments, by James Quatro on McSweeney's. Here are the first three:...

August 11, 2014

A Great & Glorious, But Debated, Assumption

Catholics will be celebrating the Feast of the Assumption on Friday. Here, in case in the...

August 08, 2014

The Way, It’s True, Is a Life

Go here and read. Two young friends did the same thing this summer but sadly have not...

August 08, 2014

St. Therese, St. Terese Benedicta, and Women Priests

In his celebration of the ordination forty years ago of the first Episcopal women ministers, the Episopalian...

August 07, 2014

Mr. Morford 2014

In Obama the Light-Worker: Thoughts From 2008, I passed along the reflections of a Mark...

August 07, 2014

The East, Home of Civilization

A cartoon explaining the difference between wearing a suit on the east and the west...

August 07, 2014

Chaput on Francis: Dignity Requires Solidarity

Archbishop Charles Chaput says it would be a mistake to call Francis a liberal or...

August 06, 2014

Seven Rules for Being Kind to Waiters

Customers can treat waiters and fast food clerks very badly, sometimes amazingly badly. Some of it's...

August 06, 2014

A Lesson From the Egyptians

As it turns out, egyptologists had the answer all the time, illustrated with a very...

August 06, 2014

Our Sterile Academic Theology

"I think it is part of our endless colonial mindset that we wait for ideas,...

August 06, 2014

Robert P. George on the Intellectual’s Drug

Robert P. George warns about the addictive drug that is fame and approval: Advice to...

August 05, 2014

How You Enter

In last Thursday's The Experience of Conversion I quoted the first few paragraphs of an essay...

August 05, 2014

Bergoglio the Teacher

In last Friday's A Lesson for Creative People, I passed on a story about then...

August 04, 2014

Readings (4 August 2014)

Physicist George Ellis Knocks Physicists for Knocking Philosophy, Falsification, Free Will, by John Horgan, from...

August 04, 2014

Obama the Light-Worker: Thoughts from 2008

Writing in June 2008, an SF Gate and Huffington Post columnist named Mark Morford explained...

August 04, 2014

Leo XIII and the Dirty Picture

Leo XIII favored snuff. Before he became pope, he had served for a time as...

August 03, 2014

Marilynne Robinson on Israel

"It was moving to see all the different forms of piety focused, concentrated in an...

August 01, 2014

The Meaning of the Peace Isn’t Exactly Fellowship

The sign of peace is to kept in the same place at Mass, says the...

August 01, 2014

The Last Century’s Fifty Worst Books

Starting with Margaret Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa, the Intercollegiate Review presents the Fifty Worst...

August 01, 2014

A Lesson for Creative People

A useful lesson for writers, scholars, teachers, and anyone else doing some kind of creative work,...

July 2014

July 31, 2014

Writing Cartoons

For writers, two cartoons, not hugely funny but amusing: Creative Thinking and The Writer's Retreat.

July 31, 2014

Brooklyn Rescue

How often do you get bitten tells the story of a young man who (as...

July 31, 2014

The Experience of Conversion

One kind of would-be convert, as I wrote in Long's Commitments a couple of days...

July 30, 2014

Ayn Rand’s Harry Potter

Something many readers may have seen, but for those like me who hadn't, here is...

July 30, 2014

The Spiritual But Not Religious Annoy a Pastor

"[H]is marriage ended, and he began to feel that the church was more his former...

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