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Rod Dreher. Richard E. Grant says it best: “My beloved Uncle Monty Richard Griffiths died last night. Chin-Chin my dear friend.” Read more
Rod Dreher. Richard E. Grant says it best: “My beloved Uncle Monty Richard Griffiths died last night. Chin-Chin my dear friend.” Read more
Wesley Hill, “The Anger Room.” Read more
I’m in the NYT “Room for Debate,” w/John Corvino, Rod Dreher, Maria Scaperlanda, & Patrick & Charlotte Markey. …But if all of that leaves you cold — if you feel like you don’t “get anything” from Lent — your experience may actually be the most thoroughly Christian response possible. Because Lent isn’t a self-improvement project, even a spiritual self-improvement project. It isn’t a diet or a life beautification regime. Lent is a promise to walk with Jesus even into the... Read more
Helen Rittelmeyer: The biggest difference between Samuel Taylor Coleridge and David Foster Wallace is that by the time cardiomyopathy took Coleridge’s life in 1834, at the age of sixty-one, the consensus was that he had died too late. It’s not that no one engaged in rueful speculation about the masterpieces that would go unwritten, it was just that they’d done it years before, when it became clear that addiction and lack of professional discipline had made further serious literary output... Read more
We welcome their voices and publish the letters that will be read at a service Thursday evening with the Director of Novices and 11 Jesuit novices, each one washing the feet of an inmate at the juvenile hall where kids are sentenced as adults. more (via Tim Carney) Read more
Express a religious longing as mental illness, then as identity politics. Read more
Undermine an authority, slowly ease away from the traditions it backstopped, lament the breakdown of community. Read more
Christopher C. Roberts in First Things: Here is what Berry fails to imagine, but what his analysis helps us to explain: chastity for gays and lesbians is possible, but, like any type of chastity, it requires profound community support, or else, in our culture, it feels like pointless loneliness. We must organize family and parish life so that “lay celibate” is not a synonym for “lonely.” All due honor to the various therapists and groups already doing good work, but... Read more
NYT: As Roman Catholics worldwide commemorate Holy Week, Cardinal Dolan chose Wednesday morning to visit the Shawangunk Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison in the Hudson Valley town of Wallkill. The trip was one day before a scheduled visit by Pope Francis to a youth detention center in Rome, which the pope chose instead of the traditional visit to a basilica on the afternoon of Holy Thursday. Cardinal Dolan said that the new pope’s actions had “inspired me” to become a... Read more
All the other seasons get a good supply of horror flicks. Summer has Sleepaway Camp and the other summer camp slashers, Stand by Me and the other “loneliness of childhood” films, and all the end-of-school flicks from Prom Night to The Boys Next Door. Fall has the Halloween movies, of course–if you want an entry into that field which may be new to you, check out the “Hallowe’en Party” episode of Agatha Christie’s Poirot, which is quite dark and has... Read more
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