Social Media vs. the Catholic Church (?)
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Here's the summary of this post: "How the Internet is game-changer for the
Catholic Church." Keep reading if you're interested...
*This summer I'll ...
Scandal Advice from the Master
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Bill Clinton, wearing a white toga and a crown of gold, sat in a garden
while attractive women fed him grapes. President Obama, having just
suffered the mo...
Help! My kids still aren't Catholic!
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An earlier post this week with a similar title evoked the most passionate
comments I’ve had on a post for a long time. I suggested that one of the
reasons ...
Hospitals Ask Patients for a Blank Check
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Miami’s Mt. Sinai Medical Center has just promised to publicly release the
rates at which insurance companies reimburse the hospital for treatments.
In any...
It is a strange thing to promote a book…
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I am a little late getting around to talking about the Patheos Book Club,
which is currently featuring my book, among others. As I’ve expressed to
some fri...
Help My Kids Still Aren’t Catholic!!
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An earlier post this week with a similar title evoked the most passionate
comments I’ve had on a post for a long time. I suggested that one of the
reasons ...
Not Lottery/Not Meritocracy, What Is It?
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Blog:
Just Visiting
There was a time when I thought of myself as “The Rejectionist.”
From 2003 until 2007 I edited *McSweeney’s Internet Tendency*. Many o...
Star Trek Into Montage
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I went to see the new Star Trek movie last night, and I have discovered J.
J. Abrams's method for making Star Trek movies. You start with a bunch of
lists:...
So no real men then?
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Paul Elam, a prominent men's rights activist, has posted the following
advice to men. It's advice that deserves some criticism:
All your life you are told...
Catholic Radio: Faithful, Interactive, and Growing
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Catholic Radio: Faithful, Interactive, and Growing | Jim Graves | Catholic World Report Solid programming and improved technology have spurred the growth of ...
The Ultimate Ballfield
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Major League Baseball has retired the number 42, in honor of Jackie
Robinson, the man who broke the color line and opened up that institution
to all Americ...
Key Theological Thinkers
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Ashgate at month's end is set to release a big new collection made all the
more impressive by the wonderfully high number of Orthodox figures covered:
Staa...
Dana Milbank Slams Obama's Assault on the Press
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*There are various reasons you might not care about the Obama
administration’s spying on journalist James Rosen and labeling him a
“co-conspirator and/or...
U.S. Catholics: Overly Assimilated?
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With his new book, American Church: The Remarkable Rise, Meteoric Fall, and
Uncertain Future of Catholicism in America , mild-mannered Russell Shaw has
b...
Preaching to the Wordless
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*Editor's Note:** So dear readers, did you know that there
are about 30 percent more of you this year than there were in 2012? And
that in 2012, TCT's re...
God Wrote Code and It Was A Good Day …
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… Do you ever just wake up in those strange moods where you are
phenomenally grateful for your certainty in the existence of God? Where
everything you see ...
1 of the 497
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The courses are complete. The vestments are ready. The chalice sits waiting
for its sacred duty. Six years in the seminary have finally led to this:
ordina...
Christians Must Confront Scientific Illiteracy
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That's the title of an interesting post by University of St. Thomas law
prof Chuck Reid, at ReligiousLeftLaw. I live in Georgia. I'm proud to say
that John...
Promote Online Donations for Disaster Relief Funds
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Not only must we keep the Oklahoma tornado victims in our prayers, as good
stewards it’s only right that we come together and do what we can
financially as...
Bishop Schori’s Non-Sermon in Curacao
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Brethren, Peace and Good to all of you in Jesus Christ.
According to the Episcopal News Service, the Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts
Schori, Presiding ...
Ex-Presidents Club Makes the World Better
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James Glassman, CP
As former President George W. Bush, joined by President Obama and three
living former presidents, recently dedicated his library this wee...
Pope Francis performs an exorcism?
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There is some discussion going on about Pope Francis' encounter with a young man, captured in the video below. Articles on this are appearing everywhere from...
Neither nature alone nor grace alone
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*Since therefore grace does not destroy nature but perfects it, natural
reason should minister to faith as the natural bent of the will ministers
to chari...
Herman and Bruno: The Sock Puppet VIDEO!!!
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Well, there's nothing much for me say here. Introducing Herman (orange) and
Bruno (green), the Sock Puppets, with their handlers (literally) Josefina
and T...
Omnipotence and the 'Delimiter of Possibilities' View
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Aquinas notes that some analyses of omnipotence have a serious problem: they reduce the apparently substantive claim "God is omnipotent" to the trivial claim...
Beauty and the Face of God
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Everything is beautiful in a person when he turns toward God, and
everything is ugly when it is turned away from God. Fr. Pavel Florensky +++
As I am prepa...
Emotional perception
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On Friday I was feeling somewhat poorly and in the interests of public
health (not that I minded!) I opted out of participation in the PhD
graduation din...
J'accuse ...!
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Well, the stakes might not be as high as they were in late 19th Century
France, but that doesn’t mean intellectuals of goodwill shouldn’t be on
record in...
Chinese Author Ma Jian and the One-Child Policy
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by Marcus Roberts The Guardian recently published a fascinating article by
Ma Jian, the author of A Dark Road, about China’s one-child policy. In this
arti...
Scientists Create Human Embryos to Make Stem Cells
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[Los Angeles Times] For the first time, scientists have created human
embryos that are genetic copies of living people and used them to make stem
cells — a...
Really, it's not you.
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You all, I don't know what is going on with Blogger, but I am having a
dickens of a time with it. If I can't figure this out soon, I'll be
migrating (ulp)...
Un cammino attraverso la Commedia (Par. 28-33)
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Pentecost reverses Babel. Whereas once language divided humanity, the words
of the Apostles, spoken in the Spirit, unite humanity. Peter’s speech in
Acts 2...
Update for Next Week
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No blogging this next week. . .
Our provincial assembly starts in St Louis on Monday, May 20th and runs
through Thursday, May 23rd.
I'll be back in time ...
Viable Human Embryonic Stem Cells Created By Cloning
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A paper in this week’s Cell describes how a team in Oregon finally achieved
what many scientists have expected–and many others have dreaded: they
derived e...
7 Quick Takes (5/17/13)
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— 1 — Yesterday, I was blogging about abstinence education, shame, and
horrible Homeric epithets. That may leave you wondering what kind of
sex-ed my high...
He is a liar, and the father thereof
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If you think lying to save lives is morally licit, ask yourself how many of
the lies you tell each month are told to save lives.
Abstinence-Only Sex Education: A Caution
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Being a 65-year-old curmudgeon, I sometimes have to be reminded that social
media has its uses, despite the fact that CatholicCulture.org maintains two
d...
Openly Threadbare
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An Open Thread has been requested.
Which is fine by me, because I haven't the slightest inclination to inflict
my breezy ruahminations even on myself. See...
My Mother: Muse and Proxy Fighter
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Last Thursday at the office, right in the middle of her work day, my mother
received an urgent phone call. “Hey, Mom,” the caller began. “I know you’re
bus...
Sending Roots Deep
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We’ve been on our land now for two weeks. We have mostly unpacked and
gotten things settled, but renovations are ongoing, so we have been living
with dust ...
A Solution or a Something?
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This article, How We Failed Our Y-Combinator Interview, points out the
distinction between building a solution and building a something. A
solution hits...
Petition in support of the two Syrian archbishops
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A petition is being presented to President Obama that he do what he can to
obtain the release of the two Syrian archbishops who were abducted last
week, an...
Therapy Notes: Give Amy a Bottle
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*From my therapy notebook:* I now know who to blame for my feelings of
panic and anxiety … Amy. It’s all her fault. That’s what I call my
amygdala, the del...
Sragow’s Leftist Rants
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Last week, a student at the University of Southern California released 15
minutes of excerpts from videos he had made of his political-science
professor,...
The Narrative Patrol.
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Media row at the Kermit Gosnell patient and infant murder trial.
There is no area of American politics in which the press is more activist or biased or unet...
Irenaeus and the Condemnation of John Italus
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In my previous post we surveyed the history of the condemnation of
universalism in John Italus and in particular the role of St Maximus
looming large behin...
New CV Design Forthcoming!
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Vigilant readers may have noticed that things have been rather quiet on our
end this weekend.
Well, no need to fear! A new CV design is forthcoming, and...
The Road to Damascus
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Last night I began my Aspirancy program with an overnight retreat at the
St. Teresa Retreat Center in Columbus. The Aspirancy program is the first
step in ...
New Age Convert: Cari Donaldson
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[image: New Age Convert: Cari Donaldson]
Cari Donaldson
*After being raised Presbyterian Cari became involved in the new age
movement while attending Mich...
"Add to Your Faith"
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The second part of Lane Keister's response to me concerns II Peter 1:3ff. I
wrote, "All the elements of Jesus’ and John’s and Paul’s paradigm are
there: G...
Abby Johnson - Pro-Life Advocate
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[image: Abby Johnson IP#78 Abby Johnson unPlanned on Inside the Pages]*An
ordinary woman who has experienced extraordinary grace and wow, look what
God has...
Just released!
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I am excited to announce that my latest book, Holiness for Everyone, has
just been released! Yesterday I received a box full of the book (an
author’s most ...
"They Moved My Blog Without Telling Me!"
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For those of you devoted souls who have been coming to *High Concepts* in
the last few weeks ravenous for some fresh material, I have some good news
and ...
THE BIG ANNOUNCEMENT
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Ready?
Here it is.
AoftheA has moved to Wordpress. Pardon the moving boxes and clutter - it'll
be cleaned up in no time!
So sayonara, Blogger.
Comments ...
Five solid catechetical books
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*Over at First Things, David Nickol has a great suggestion in his comment
to the Elizabeth Scalia's post, A Dictatorship of Sentimentalism.** David
wrote:...
I Depart from the Masthead of First Things
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As of February 28, my position as Senior Editor at First Things will end.
Such is the publishing world: the challenge of producing a well-printed
book of n...
Sarah Palin and the GOP
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One way or the other, Sarah Palin will have the biggest impact on the GOP’s
chances to win the presidency in 2012. Her recent editorial in the Wall
Street ...
A new home for Morning Catholic Must-Reads
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From today, Morning Catholic Must-Reads has a new home on The Catholic
Herald’s new website. Thank you for reading the blog here. I look forward
to seeing ...
The Church’s Unholy Holiness
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Each Sunday we profess belief that the Church is holy. Yet almost daily the
newspapers challenge this profession with accounts of heinous sins by her
leade...
Roman Catholic Arch / Bishops of the USA
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Besides regularly updating my Roman Catholic Arch / Bishops of the USA page, I have recently been improving the layout of and links offered on the page. Now,...