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2016-03-03T12:27:32-04:00

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a historical reflection on “reverse racism”

Last updated on: March 3, 2016 at 12:27 pm By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

In college, I used to go drink Guinness at a nearby Irish pub, where traditional musicians played, and we clapped and danced and sang along – songs about love, songs about drinking, songs about killing the English. Anti-English sentiment in this type of pub culture is usually a trope, not an emotional reality. It’s a way of keeping solidarity with oppressed people, connecting with history, maybe of catharsis. I’ve got English and Irish both mixed up in my heredity, and... Read more

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2016-03-25T16:34:58-04:00

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Of popes, politics, and the blinding force of ideology

Last updated on: March 25, 2016 at 4:34 pm By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

“Diabolical Narcissist Peronist-Fascist.” “The massive crime against humanity … will carry on utterly unchecked and uncontested through time until Our Blessed Lord and Savior Jesus Christ returns in glory… UNLESS positive, proactive, countermeasures are taken.” “Satan has made his move… and his tool…has a new diabolical meme or soundbite nearly every day – something to disorient, confuse, mislead or repulse human souls AWAY from the Truth of Jesus Christ and His Holy Catholic Church.” “Because the good German... Read more

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2016-03-25T16:36:36-04:00

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our fantasy of self-sufficiency

Last updated on: March 25, 2016 at 4:36 pm By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

A wind storm last night took our power out, so this morning I made coffee in the French press after heating water on the grill, and started a fire in the woodstove, and did paperwork by candlelight while waiting to use my computer again. Any time this happens I am reminded that I need to come up with more self-sufficient methods of living, since as it stands just about everything in our home depends on electricity. I know how to... Read more

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2016-03-25T16:37:46-04:00

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being pro-life: a difficult discipline

Last updated on: March 25, 2016 at 4:37 pm By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

This does mean putting up with some grossness, and with some inconvenience. The Christian life is gross and inconvenient, however - look at a Grünewald crucifix. But it is also filled with wonder, and when we give ourselves over to wonder we will think less about what we can kill, and more about how we can keep alive. Read more

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2016-03-25T16:39:22-04:00

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defining women

Last updated on: March 25, 2016 at 4:39 pm By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

It is our Christian obligation, then, to attempt to understand female experience, what it means to be a female human person, with recourse to reality instead of to pre-existing prejudice Read more

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2016-05-05T23:25:50-04:00

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voting with moral seriousness

Last updated on: May 5, 2016 at 11:25 pm By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

Politics is not a game, though the debates may resemble a game show. Voting to see "what will happen" because we're bored, or discontented, is irresponsible. Vote seriously, or don't vote at all. Read more

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2016-03-25T16:41:29-04:00

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your humanities class is probably completely useless -and that’s probably okay

Last updated on: March 25, 2016 at 4:41 pm By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

Articles like this from The Atlantic, and this from Huffington Post, expounding on the value of a philosophy degree for the job market, leave me feeling a little bitter since my philosophy degrees have never equipped me to earn more than a fast-food worker might. Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield is quoted in Huffington Post: “I think if you have a good background in what it is to be human, an understanding of life, culture and society, it gives you a good perspective on starting... Read more

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2018-03-30T22:43:41-04:00

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Are We Depending on Abortion?

Last updated on: March 30, 2018 at 10:43 pm By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

In order to minimize the demand for abortion, we need reframe our view of pregnancy, beyond the system of capitalist production. Read more

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2016-03-25T16:43:29-04:00

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maybe this is not about us

Last updated on: March 25, 2016 at 4:43 pm By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

As Catholics it is understandable that we often find ourselves taking a defensive position. We’re the weirdos who pour water on our newborns, smear ashes on our foreheads, and worship a Jewish carpenter executed for sedition two thousand years ago. At times we’re handy for our aesthetic appeal when filmmakers want to capitalize on the numinosity of liturgy or the carnivalesque of festivals. At other times we are dangerous revolutionaries standing against the violence of earthly powers. (But often,... Read more

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2018-03-30T22:47:56-04:00

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Abortion, Collective Responsibility, and the S-Word

Last updated on: March 30, 2018 at 10:47 pm By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

Voting for policies that will give women options other than abortion is both more effective and more humanitarian than voting for politicians who slash safety nets while promising to end abortion. Read more

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