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November 2014

November 07, 2014

Have Putin’s Baby By Mail

Russia . . . Russian Lawmaker Proposes Mailing Putin Sperm to Impregnate Russian Women, reports the...

November 06, 2014

Friendship, Modernity, and Encounter

Friends' books available for pre-ordering, both of which I'd commend. To be exact, the translator...

November 06, 2014

American Converts, In Their Own Words

A very interesting and useful site, at least for those interested in converts, with the...

November 05, 2014

On November 5th, a Summary of Christian Politics, in Music

G. K. Chesterton's great hymn, a sharp (and singable) summary of the Christian hope for political...

November 05, 2014

My Father & Brittany Maynard

An alternative to the sad choice Brittany Maynard made as she was dying. My father...

November 05, 2014

Christ Lost, Says Southern Baptist

My friend Russell Moore of the Southern Baptists' ERLC wrote on Twitter: I was disturbed...

November 03, 2014

Sentimentality and Evil, Illustrated by J. K. Rowling

In her "Memoir of Mary Ann," published in Mystery and Manners, Flannery O'Connor offered a famous...

November 03, 2014

St. Augustine’s Powers

Chad Pecknold, a theologian at Catholic University of America and among other things with me...

November 02, 2014

In New York, Parishes With Unusual Names Closing Faster

For what it's worth, in the merging of parishes the Archdiocese of New York just...

November 01, 2014

Creating Marshalls and Eisenhowers

Defense analyst and Pulitzer Prize finalist Tom Ricks on developing leadership: 13. Let’s talk about...

October 2014

October 30, 2014

Russell Kirk, Ghost

Alan Cornett tells a story about the conservative patriarch Russell Kirk at Halloween: The Halloween...

October 29, 2014

Sally Thomas’s Fallen Water

Advance notice for my friend Sally Thomas's new collection of poems, Fallen Water. Here's something from...

October 29, 2014

Drunken Utilitarians

Not dispositive, as lawyers say, but suggestive, from The Atlantic: Asking drunk people in a...

October 26, 2014

Vows, Conscience & the Consequences

Reading an email friend's message about a pilgrimage he's on reminded me of this passage...

October 21, 2014

Dogs & Cats in Moderation

My friend Father David Poecking writes, in response to a Facebook exchange being me and...

October 20, 2014

Notre Dame Cheated

Cheated of victory, I mean. I have no dog in this hunt, except for a...

October 16, 2014

Why Cats Hate Each Other

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

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 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 07, 2014

His Teacher Gave Him an F

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

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...

October 01, 2014

The Joys of Fasting, From Someone It Really Pains

"Iit's not that tough, really. I'll eat dinner at 5:00 Friday, then I'll go to...

September 2014

September 25, 2014

Homosexual Interests Trump the Poor’s

"The Catholic Church does incalculable good, providing immeasurable comfort — material as well as spiritual...

September 25, 2014

On Those Who Sin Against Books

From Edmund Lester Pearson, a now unknown writer, via the Paris Review, a story of what happens...

September 18, 2014

The Times, the VP, the Nuns, & the Church

When covering the Catholic Church, the New York Times reliably gets it wrong. The newspaper has a...

September 17, 2014

We Worship Lucifer. Just Look at the Latin

Now the End Begins, the website mentioned in the previous item, really doesn't like the...

September 17, 2014

Media Facepalm of the Day

As a friend put it. The International Business Times seems to be a respectable newspaper,...