World Council of Churches

World Council of Churches Nobody Goes To Anymore

Bureaucracy

An administrative class that increasingly only knows what it must think rather than how to do so.

Cardinal Baronius

"The Bible was written to show us how to go to heaven, not how the heavens go."
- Cardinal Baronius (1598), a quote cited by Galileo

College

Remember Matt Damon's character in "Good Will Hunting" who taunts a Harvard student by saying in 50 years he'll realize he "dropped a hundred and fifty grand on a (bleeping) education you coulda got for a dollar fifty in late charges at the public library"?

Hannah Arendt

The frigid pity Hannah Arendt thought characteristic of the social state.

Talmud

The Talmud states: "G-d says, 'I created the evil inclination and I created Torah as its antidote.'"

Torah

There are Torah laws that do not express the ideals of Judaism but exist as a way to reach those ideals.

Economics

Economics is the study of the use of limited resources that have alternative uses

Scientific concern

Union of Concerned Scientists (original name, "Union of Concerned Activist Lawyers Who Took a Science Course in High School").

Good taste - GKC

Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions,

Down South

He sounds like what we used to call down South “an old maid in britches”.

Frederick Taylor

Taylor, as Robert Kanigel makes clear in his excellent biography, "The One Best Way," was something of a charlatan. He faked a lot of his time and motion studies.

Principles, not prescriptions.

In the social arena, the Church has principles, not prescriptions.

Thomas Reese, SJ

Alas, one can all too often count on Fr. Reese, S.J., to defend Catholics from the teachings and requirements of the Catholic Church.

Michael Sean Winters

Michael Sean Winters' column “Peters v. Cuomo”: a reply (Feb. 25, 2011). This is an especially exceptional reply to an especially condescending progressive pundit who unwittingly, in his arrogance, brings a broken plastic knife to a gun fight.

Life in India

India's senior anti-corruption official resigned yesterday after the Supreme Court ruled that his appointment was inappropriate because he faces graft charges in a decades-old case.

Humanism

In England, the Humanist Society suggests answering the census form "If you're not religious, for God's sake say so".

Hiroshima

An aspect of the bombing not mentioned by Western critics is mentioned in a letter in the Homiletic & Pastoral Review from a resident of Japan. Had the bombs not been used, the result would have been the deaths of millions, defending and attacking the Japanese islands.

DeGaulle

Charles de Gaulle didn't say much I liked, but this he did say: "Graveyards are full of indispensable men."

Democracy

All too often, exported democratic institutions have meant "one man, one vote-- one time."

Death in Russia

After Russia's czars were replaced by the Communists, the government executed more people in a day than the czars had executed in half a century.