thoughts in and out of season
Here’s a post at my blog where I laid out many reasons why Europeans should be popes, as opposed to common liberal arguments in favor of a pope from the Third World.
http://thirdpositionreview.blogspot.com/2005/04/europe-and-popes.html
Since anonymous visitors can’t post new topics, I thought I should give them a place to comment. Any takers?
I was discussing America, the Constitution, the liturgy and the Roman Catholicism with an Anglican and Americanist friend. It occurred to me that the issues were all related, so I decided I’d put them somewhat together. On the liturgy I said (in an edited way):
… More ...My vote for the Novus Ordo for now would be
That was the response of Time magazine to the papal election. They’re following through on their boast with yet another piece presenting the event as the outcome of a Machievellian campaign by Vatican insiders:
… More ...“In the days before the conclave, almost every Cardinal who deigned to speak to the press declared that he was praying
I am writing an article for a magazine on the imposition of feminism, entitled ‘A Different Kind Of Corset’. So the main body of my article will be about how feminism has, in fact, begun to restrict certain areas (for example staying at home as a mother is now has bad connotations.) I was curious … More ...
For some interesting discussions of the upcoming conclave see the pieces by “Sandro Magister,” an Italian journalist with a pen name, at www.chiesa. It appears from the April 7 and April 14 articles that a rather strong party, led by Ratzinger and other top cardinals, is proposing quite forcefully less outreach of the Assisi … More ...
It seems to me there’s a certain parallel between John Paul II and Ronald Reagan. Both were immensely popular for their hopefulness, their buoyancy, their ability to connect with all sorts of people, their love for what they led, their directness and willingness to stand on principle. Both were viewed with a mixture of contempt … More ...
[url=http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/whatever_happened_to/v-print/story/12543816p-13399078c.html]Incredible[/url]…
So, blind men have a “right” to “read” Playboy, and if Playboy Enterprises won’t publish a Braille edition of it, they can demand that the Library of Congress pay for it, and they’ll get it! Courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer… (I know; it’s only “the articles” that are rendered into Braille – which makes … More ...
A fascinating account, by Srdja Trifkovic of Chronicles Magazine, of how National Review Online caved to Islamic lobbyists and temporarily removed his book from their bookstore, [url=http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/cgi-bin/newsviews.cgi/Islam/CAIR/2005/04/06/Caving_In_to_Jihad_]here[/url]…