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2015-09-15T16:31:44-04:00

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A Sondheim Song for Your Papal Mixtape

Last updated on: September 15, 2015 at 4:31 pm By Leah Libresco

My parish started its Adult Sunday School (taught by Dominican friars) this past weekend, and we kicked off the semester with a discussion of the Pope’s encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si. I’m not about to summarize the whole encyclical or even the whole class, but I am pleased to tell you that, if you’re building up a Laudato Si mixtape, I have a song to recommend. One of the themes of our discussion was what Pope Francis terms “the technocratic paradigm”... Read more

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2015-09-12T12:55:36-04:00

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I’m So Glad I Watched Colbert’s Biden Interview

Last updated on: September 12, 2015 at 12:55 pm By Leah Libresco

I don’t have much to add to it, I just figured a lot of you would enjoy watching it, but might not have done it yet. I got all verklempt. Read more

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2015-09-11T10:36:54-04:00

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7QT: Agreement Theorems and Exponential Suprises

Last updated on: September 11, 2015 at 10:36 am By Leah Libresco

— 1 — I loved this NYT piece on an Italian street whose residents created a private facebook group to get to know each other better. Mr. Bastiani took a chance and posted a flier along his street, Via Fondazza, explaining that he had created a closed group on Facebook just for the people who lived there. He was merely looking to make some new friends. In three or four days, the group had about 20 followers. Almost two years later, the residents... Read more

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2015-09-10T15:41:56-04:00

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Gateway Drugs to More Ethical Lives

Last updated on: September 10, 2015 at 3:41 pm By Leah Libresco

A while ago, I mentioned that I’d found [X]-adjacent to be a helpful category when the X in question was bad. E.g. rape-adjacent sex (unclear consent) may not break any laws or result in anyone feeling violated, but it makes it harder to identify predators, and it’s good to avoid sex that falls in this grey area. Catherine Addington extended the idea to brutality-adjacent policing in an essay at AmCon. And I wondered whether there was a flip side of [Y]-adjacent... Read more

Morality in Practice

2015-09-09T13:27:57-04:00

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The Beguine Model for the Benedict Option

Last updated on: September 9, 2015 at 1:27 pm By Leah Libresco

After reading Laura Swan’s The Wisdom of the Beguines, I’m tempted to tell Rod Dreher that the best name for Christians trying to find ways to live in community, inspired by monasteries but outside them, is probably the Beguine Option, not the Benedict Option. It’s hard to do too much better than this as a model for finding ways to live your faith with others, in cities, towns, or wherever you happen to find yourself: While some lived with... Read more

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2015-09-08T13:30:55-04:00

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Starting Conversations During Francis’s Visit

Last updated on: September 8, 2015 at 1:30 pm By Leah Libresco

Last week, I was a guest on EWTN News Nightly to talk about ways to have good conversations with non-Catholics that might be sparked by Pope Francis’s visit (plus a bit on the perennially popular topic of comparing the two most recent popes) As usual, my general rule is to start conversations in the way that you’d want a non-Catholic, who wanted you to leave the faith because they willed your good, to start them with you. Read more

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2015-09-08T13:42:00-04:00

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Dissenting Catholics Expect The Church Will Change

Last updated on: September 8, 2015 at 1:42 pm By Leah Libresco

Pew has a big report out on American Catholicism, and I’ve got a piece up at FiveThirtyEight about the optimism of Catholic dissenters: Although dissenters are often tarred as “Cafeteria Catholics” who pick and choose from among the church’s teachings, without much thought for the whole, the dissenting Catholics that Pew surveyed seemed fairly confident that the changes they support will wind up being viewed as orthodox and applicable to everyone. On every controversy that Pew included in its survey,... Read more

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2015-09-04T10:59:50-04:00

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7QT: Math Haikus and Deaf Musicals

Last updated on: September 4, 2015 at 10:59 am By Leah Libresco

— 1 — When I was googling things like “two people looking at each other,” trying to find a picture for my post on why “You’re perfect!” and “I love you!” aren’t the same sentiment, I wound up discovering this word. Mamihlapinatapai: a look shared by two people, each wishing that the other will offer something that they both desire but are unwilling to suggest or offer themselves There’s a little more at the wiki page. — 2 — If you’re... Read more

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2015-09-03T15:34:08-04:00

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A Good Marriage Isn’t A Mutual Admiration Society

Last updated on: September 3, 2015 at 3:34 pm By Leah Libresco

In the middle of a column on married couples ineptly supporting single friends, Sara Eckel had a weird model of what happy and healthy relationships look like: Couples are weird. Relationships — happy ones, anyway — put you a strange bubble, a closed loop of positive reinforcement. “I love you!” “I love you, too!” “You’re the best!” “No, you’re the best.” And so forth. It’s like Fox News, except in this case, the propaganda re-circulates between your party of two. The mutual... Read more

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2015-09-01T15:47:23-04:00

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Workplaces Make Terrible Monasteries

Last updated on: September 1, 2015 at 3:47 pm By Leah Libresco

I’m a little late to the discussion of Amazon’s treatment of its white collar workers (I’ve been on vacation in CA), but I really liked Matthew Schmitz’s take on the company at First Things. It sounds like Amazon works really hard to filter its employees for people who are willing to give most of their life to the company, and that winnowing process can include harsh treatment of people with other commitments, but isn’t necessarily intended to result in a workforce... Read more

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