The Anchoress
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So, what are we to make of this creature who has handed Norway a horrific grief and who managed, it seems, to continue stalking and shooting his unarmed prey for over an hour? His background and beliefs will be explored extensively throughout the media, but what I can’t help wondering as I look at these pictures of 32-year old Anders Behring Breivik is: were these professionally-done headshots meant for this moment? Did he have them done in anticipation of seeing... Read more
In his column today, Matt Emerson, who teaches at a Jesuit prep school, expresses concern over the effectiveness of our current religious education programs. Addressing the aftermath of the Gabrielle Giffords shooting, he writes of working through Psalm 46: Those classes, and that day, were sacred moments. There had been an uncovering. In the darkened room, in the mild glow of a projector screen bearing ancient words, I had been given an x-ray of my students’ spiritual life. The images... Read more
I had not heard of this new online series from Hulu, until I read Joseph Susanka’s piece — but what a fascinating premise! The series’ premise is startlingly simple: the Man (Xander Berkeley) sits in a booth at Cadillac Jack’s Driver-In and waits. People—convinced that he can “get things” for those who want them badly enough—visit his booth, and he makes a bargain with each of them: if they complete the task he assigns, they will get what they so... Read more
Well, I suppose this was a poor idea; I thought I could simply do my Patheos editing stuff and then not blog and that would give me an appropriate sort of retreat, but here it is, nearly 2PM, and I haven’t even said my office yet, so busy have I been. So, at-home retreats…they don’t always work; the withdrawal from this devil’s own instrument must be complete or the result is less than satisfying. But I press onward. My editing... Read more
Have designed an at-home retreat for myself that involves praying the the Hours, staying close to the oratory, edifying reading, exercise and quiet, and actually cooking supper. Not sure if it will be a day-long or a couple of days, but that’s what I’m feeling called to just now. Since I won’t be here to moderate, comments will be closed until I return. God’s blessings to all! (Graphic thanks to reader Brian J, from last year) Read more
Tim Muldoon has begun a series in his column space, Culture at the Crossroads, on the huge subject of Christianity and Sex: From Part I: What I will propose is the idea that authentic discernment of desire means recognizing that not all kinds of freedom are very life-giving. Discernment is the careful sifting of goods from bads: so, for example, it will be important to discern how in the modern/postmodern world women can discover their vocations, while rejecting ideas that... Read more
America is in the process of tumbling: she has one party interested only in “remaking” America with or without the constitution’s guidance; it is a party become so expert at political maneuvering that it no longer believes it actually has to lead, build consensus or compromise — ever — and another party that can’t manage to stick a post into a hole and call it a goal. The Democrats and Republicans remind me of nothing so much as Jules and... Read more
An interview from 2008: (H/T) UPDATE: Okay. SHAPyoo seems to be the winner. And here is a really good piece by Dave Gibson on the man. +++++ UPDATE: First Things has just published A column by Chaput on Catholic Charity in Secular America: For Catholics, every human person—no matter how disabled, poor, or flawed—has a unique, inviolable dignity. Sanctity of life and the basic rights that go with it begin at conception and continue through natural death. But civil society... Read more
My Tuesday Column over at First Things this week addresses what seems to me to be the unseemly amount of fretting being done by people of faith: Perhaps it is because so many Catholics currently seem to be wandering that some are panicking and reaching for their cutlasses. Certainly the Church does seem to be in a prolonged season of penance, wrought by both her tragic inattention to clerical abuses and the sinfully inadequate catechesis of the last forty years.... Read more
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