is so sensible. Read more

Magisterium vs. Left and Right is on discussion over at Inside Catholic. We discuss two schools of dissent from Magisterial teaching re: the death penalty and where they blunder. Not surprisingly, given the demographic, one school predominates in the complaints that follow, explaining why the Magisterium is not merely imprudent but heretical and they are right. Good times. Read more

…about apologetics over at the Register today. Read more

Dear Friends of the Seattle G. K. Chesterton Society, We invite you to join us next Thursday evening for our third gathering of this season at the Catholic Newman Center of the University of Washington, located at 4502 20th Avenue NE, Seattle, WA 98105. Thursday, January 20, 2011, at 7:30 PM, UW Newman Center Graham Greene: Catholic Literary ModernistRev. Dr. Mark Bosco, S. J.Loyola University Chicago It is something of a cliché that the so-called modern age witnessed the death... Read more

There’s a Russian Orthodox monk who wrote a book called something like “Christ the eternal Tao” which basically argues that the tao/dao or “way” is equivalent to the greek logos concept, and was recognised intuitively by some of the great chinese sages. Trouble is that 99% of westerners who are interested in Chinese philosophy are drawn to it for the appearance of amoral mystery. Basically old drug-damaged hippies I suspect. Giving such people a Christian interpretation of these philosophies would... Read more

A friend of mine sends along this note from a friend of his in Brisbane: “The last three weeks as the crisis has moved from place to place around the state has numbed everyone, I think. Today, the Brisbane newspaper devoted its front page to photographs of those who had died in the disaster – and I found myself crying as I looked at the faces of children and grand parents and ordinary men and women. It’s heart breaking. They... Read more

I wanted to let you and your readers know that not only do I have a cool new source for high-quality reproductions of my artwork (which I’ve been needing), but I have also just added a gallery of Religious Art that will include some cool Catholic devotional images, and stuff. I’m working through Fine Art America, a website that offers scads of art reproductions at your fingertips. My page can be found by linking here. Thanks a heap! Check thou... Read more

And he is characteristically lucid and realistic as he reflects on the Mass readings. The man makes it very difficult to be a comfy plump suburbanite. Read more

some Mormon poaching over at Rome Reports. Read more

Just as a word that means “univeral” is narrowed in modern parlance to mean “sect” so (as Natalie Portman demonstrates) postmodern culture now expands the narrowest and most boring form of barnyard rutting to be something wider than love, commitment, and the intertwining of lives in the mystery of love and family: Natalie Portman may be preparing herself for a life of domesticity with fiancé Benjamin Millepied and a baby on the way, but she admitted that the reason she... Read more