Einstein & abortion

The year 1931 also saw the birth of the Committee of Self-Incrimination Against §218, which encouraged celebrities to come out and admit to having had, or having aided in, an abortion. Among those who came out was Albert Einstein.

Anglican empire

Let the Worldwide Anglican Communion go the way of the British Empire, of which it is but the spiritual ghost.

Liberal church

forgotten the radical implications of accepting Christ as whom he says he is.

First, such an acceptance rescues Christianity from becoming what the German philosopher Rüdiger Safranski calls “a cold religious project”: a “mix of social ethics, institutional power thinking, psychotherapy, techniques of meditation, museum curation, cultural project management, and social work.” That’s a concise description of the “liberal Christianity” that’s helped empty Western Europe’s churches, particularly in Benedict’s German homeland.

Art today

the artsy croissant crowd

Hatch &c

For many Catholics the Church now exists only to “hatch, match, and dispatch”

Missals

the current lame-duck Missal, which dates from the Age of Aquarius,

Liberals

Liberalism eats its young.