thoughts in and out of season
James Kalb I went around the corner to the closest Catholic church to do the day-of-obligation thing. It was the first English mass I had been to for a while, and I found it hard to adjust completely.
I do prefer the old Latin mass. Still, everything should be the best of what it is. For example, … More ...
What ever happened to the razzmatazz about artistic independence, integrity, what have you? It seems that it only works one way: Author questions ‘racism’ in U.K. theatre. Suppose the House of Lords had talked about the need to ensure X, Y and Z in a discussion of the theater’s “institutional licentiousness”?
Not that it … More ...
All Saints’ Day, a day of obligation I’m told, so in an hour I’ll go off and discharge my duties. I’m starting to feel like a papist already.
This sort of discipline is a good thing, I think. It marks off particular days for common recollection and worship, and if you don’t happen to feel … More ...
There’s been too much gloom about grand public affairs in my comments. Confucius never heard of the mote and the beam, but he knew that we should start on things by turning ourselves around. Besides, we’re told that God is present if we pray, so not everything is bad.
With that in mind, but in … More ...
To be Catholic anno Domini 2002 is to place oneself radically at odds with with the public order as understood by its most authoritative interpreters. After all, Roe v. Wade is no fluke. It’s been law for almost 30 years, and mainstream authorities are united in viewing it as fundamental to right public order. Attempts … More ...
One can only speculate about why they do it: Professor challenges racial myths. The professor in question, George Armelagos, is said to be president of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. My favorite passage in the article:
… More ...Armelagos also discussed how race has been used to directly oppress people. Many scientists thought African-Americans were
Happy-talk about homosexuality from those madcap Canadians: Children’s Aid Society seeks gay foster parents: Move reflects changing face of Canadian family. It’s easy for anyone to churn this stuff out. Just take it as obvious truth that sexual diversity is not diverse in any way that matters, that you can do anything at all … More ...
John Noble Wilford of The New York Times takes a rather interesting report on paleopathology to the effect that there had been a very long-term decline in Indians’ health before 1492, and demonstrates that he simply can’t think about such things without bringing in Left ideology: Don’t Blame Columbus for All the Indians’ Ills. … More ...
The modern view of sex and “gender” is decisively anti-Christian. That’s not simply because the modern view is opposed to tradition, Christian tradition like all other tradition, but because it reflects a habit of thought that trivializes Creation and makes the Incarnation impossible and senseless.
The problem is that modern sexual views deny intrinsic meaning … More ...
Since the Pope thinks so highly of Vatican II I suppose I should reread at least the main documents he mentions in the speech I just linked. Isn’t it nice that everything’s instantly available online these days?
I should say though that none of this bothers me much. I’m accustomed to the idea that the … More ...