Musings of a Pertinacious Papist
Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Leave of absence ...

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I will be gone to a conference in Chicago from April 27-30, where the fledgling Max Scheler Society of North America (MSSNA), of which I am...
Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Umberto Eco on the "silly sub-Christian superstitions" of the Da Vinci Code

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Umberto Eco was raised Catholic and abandoned his faith as an adult, but he has not, as Karl Keating notes, abandoned common sense. The fol...

A sustained ovation for the extermination of humanity?

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This is simply too amazing ... And Gene Edward Veith thinks so too. In short-and-to-the-point article entitled " The End of Humanism ...
Monday, April 24, 2006

Opus Dei, TIME, and the McDonaldization of American sentiment

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A friend of mine, a recent Catholic convert, came to me with the April 24 issue of TIME magazine, featuring on its cover the words "Opu...
Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Provocative fictions ... or facts?

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Snopes.com , which vets urban legends to test for authenticity, judges that the status of the following text may be "various": At ...

The Resurrection: Were the Apostles Deceived? ... Deceivers?

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Let's come clean with the alternatives: Blaise Pascal writes in his Pensees , No. 322, The Apostles were either deceived or deceivers. ...
Saturday, April 15, 2006

He rose in space and time ...

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The words "He is risen!" are an ancient Easter greeting among Christians. "He is risen indeed!" is the traditional repl...
Thursday, April 13, 2006

You must read this ...

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Present at the Demolition: A Philosopher Remembers and Reminds: An interview with Dr. Alice von Hildebrand The following conversation with D...
Wednesday, April 12, 2006

"Then it became clear to me what the foundation of real liturgical piety is ..."

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An extraordinary lesson on the liturgy, drawn from life and written by the theologian who was Joseph Ratzinger's instructor -- a short t...
Tuesday, April 11, 2006

Woman Freed In Amish Road-Rage Incident

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Buggy Driver, Cop Consent To Plea Bargain - The Greater Philadelphia NBC10.COM post reads as follows: A woman accused of repeatedly rammin...
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Saturday, April 08, 2006

On the hermeneutics of fittingness: head coverings for women

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I remember some of the Protestant churches my parents would take me to when I was a child on furlough in the United States (they were missio...
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Thomas Blosser - in memoriam

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Tom, my brother, had died of a heart attack last night, my father said. The finality was jolting when my father called with the news on Fri...
Wednesday, April 05, 2006

"On Turkey's Wings"

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Quote for the Day Every game must start with the National Anthem. The fans stand at attention, and many of them sing. Men from all walks o...
Monday, April 03, 2006

Smooth as Silk

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Dale Vree You should know by now that the mass media have been mainstreaming homosexuality. Rod Dreher [pictured far left], who works for a ...
Friday, March 31, 2006

Fr. Leonard Klein

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Leonard Klein, the former Editor of the Lutheran Forum and Lutheran minister, who was received into the Catholic Church 2003, will be ordai...
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