Catholic and Enjoying It!
…including the pastor and his wife. Welcome! Lovely to have you! Thanks be to God through our Lord Jesus Christ! Read more
…including the pastor and his wife. Welcome! Lovely to have you! Thanks be to God through our Lord Jesus Christ! Read more
…just not for white western women: Today there are parts of the world in which renting the womb of a poor woman is indeed ten times cheaper than in the US. The choice of wealthy white couples to implant embryos in the bodies of brown women is seen, not as colonialist exploitation, but as a neutral consumer choice. I remember a couple years ago when the Israelis swooped into Nepal after a huge earthquake to grab babies from surrogate mothers... Read more
Libertarian individualism: Finally, I cannot but speak of the serious risks associated with the invasion, at high levels of culture and education in both universities and in schools, of positions of libertarian individualism. A common feature of this fallacious paradigm is that it minimizes the common good, that is, “living well”, a “good life” in the community framework, and exalts the selfish ideal that deceptively proposes a “beautiful life”. If individualism affirms that it is only the individual who gives... Read more
…sez Steve Greydanus. I suspect he’s right. Chesterton had an immense capacity for enjoying pretty much everything. Chesterton was a great defender of popular and even “vulgar” culture — the very change leveled by Lewis and Tolkien against Snow White. Take the following utterly typically Chestertonian sentiment, from All Things Considered: I believe firmly in the value of all vulgar notions, especially of vulgar jokes. When once you have got hold of a vulgar joke, you may be certain that... Read more
…were Charles De Gaulle’s Anne and Rosemary Kennedy. De Gaulle’s tenderness toward his girl is one of the great public witnesses to the dignity of mentally disabled people. In contrast, the tragedy of Rosemary’s lobotomy and the shame and neglect to which she was subjected contributed (eventually) to Eunice Kennedy Shriver founding the Special Olympics and a raised public awareness of mentally disabled folk. Read more
Last week’s Panic du Jour was about Bill Nye’s stupid commentary on “extra children”. Don’t get me wrong, Nye’s comments were stupid and his attempt to “just ask questions” was a transparent move to move such talk within the “universe of discourse” for Thoughtful People. So there was much dudgeon about it in prolife, conservative and Christian circles as a Perceived Culture War Enemy offered words that those on the Culture War Right could freak out over. But here’s the... Read more
As a prophet, Hawking is a good physicist. The idea that we should leave earth to fix things is a deeply Protestant and Puritan impulse that has roots going all the way back to Abraham and even Noah. The idea is this: The Righteous must “come out from them and be separate. Touch no unclean thing and I will receive you” saith the Lord (or, in this case, Gaia or maybe Terraformed Mars). A great cleansing is required. In the... Read more
…about a Christian abortionist: Consistent with pro-abort rhetoric, he isn’t going to argue the science, because he knows it points to the truth. What I take away from this article isn’t the obvious misunderstanding of the 10 Commandments (abortion does not equal murder, and it doesn’t say thou shalt not commit abortion, therefore its OK). Or the usual “its whats best for woman’s health/emotional/financial care”. Or the attempts to make the pro-life side look like all we do is yell... Read more
…as Burger King tricksied its way into Google devices. I’m sure we’ll see all sorts of clever uses of Alexa too. Read more
Language buffs have fun with this. Read more
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