Saturday, August 25, 2012

Culture

Kimball’s survey articulates his two great themes. The first is the need to battle what he has elsewhere called “cultural amnesia". [I would say "religious amnesia"].

Friday, August 24, 2012

Liberal charity

Where people are encouraged to think that solving society's ills is primarily a job for government, charity tends to evaporate.

Thursday, August 23, 2012

Orwell

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Monday, August 20, 2012

Rogue clerics

CRS now joins hands with CCHD as a rogue Catholic charity.

Saturday, July 28, 2012

Baby Episcopalians

(In a 2005 interview, the Episcopal Church’s presiding bishop explained that her communion’s members valued “the stewardship of the earth” too highly to reproduce themselves.)

Saturday, July 21, 2012

Reinhold Niebuhr

"A God without wrath brought men without sin into a kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross." The virtual collapse of those institutions on Morningside Heights, is mute testimony to the truth of his irony.

Monday, July 16, 2012

Msgr Kelly on Fr. Richard Brown

"The new biblical theories — guess-work with footnotes".