The Anchoress
Background here Also, note that the Tea Partiers -who the press would like to paint as monolithic, goose-stepping and narrow- have endorsed a Democrat candidate. The projection continues… Read more
Background here Also, note that the Tea Partiers -who the press would like to paint as monolithic, goose-stepping and narrow- have endorsed a Democrat candidate. The projection continues… Read more
The abundance of news stories (both covered and not–covered) and Pope Benedict’s trip to Malta, have gotten me all distracted. I mean to post something later that picks up where we left off on the Pope’s impromptu sermon of last week, but in order to clear the head let us visit with some of our nun-pals and see what they’re up to! [Cue news ticker] …beep-beep-beep-beep-beep… (am I dating myself with that reference?)…wait, let me get out my banner, designed... Read more
I’ve never given her a name; Elder Son and she are both happy to keep their private lives pretty private, but Sweet Girlfriend -who I have decided to call Kitty- has pulled off a sort of “time-management/personal-drive” coup that is so impressive, I have to give a public shout-out to a kid (okay, they’re all grown up, but “kids” to us) who put herself through college while working part-time and then commenced attaining outstanding grades in a tough out-of-state graduate... Read more
According to this piece, the Icelandic volcano spewing tons of ash and who knows whatall is not sufficient to change the climate. The volcanic ash spewing from an Icelandic mountain that’s disrupting air travel across Europe may be hundreds of times less than what Mount Pinatubo disgorged in the Philippines in 1991, altering the world’s climate. The impact of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano is likely to be “virtually non-existent” on the global climate because the eruption is too small and gases... Read more
Source From an email: Recall what Obama’s said after healthcare in response to his critics: that the earth had not opened up and that nothing was falling from the sky. That is precisely what happened within days of his mocking pronouncement: the volcano and the Midwest fireball. Oh, do we want to go there, and give Obama that much power? That his adolescent sneers at his opposition carry such weight that even Nature must respond? I mean, it is sort... Read more
A few years ago the documentary film Into Great Silence, which chronicled the lives of the Carthusian Monks of the Grande Chartreuse, mesmerized audiences with its rhythm of prayer and silence. In a world increasingly noise and instrumentation-laden, the silence spoke volumes to audiences. which follows the lives of Carmelite nuns in England, seems to be equally as engaging, if this review is any indication. As No Greater Love begins we are led into the Carmelite Monastery of the Most... Read more
Doug Ross writes: Interviewed on MSNBC, a visibly shaken Jay Barbree — the longtime NBC science correspondent — described the duplicity of President Obama. Put simply, Obama’s campaign rhetoric — that he would preserve NASA’s cutting-edge science and engineering expertise — was, like so many of his promises, a fabrication. And he couldn’t even tell them to their faces. It was one of Obama’s “if you vote for me, I will save your jobs,” Lucy-holding-the-football-for-Charlie-Brown things. That’s bad enough, but... Read more
“Ephphatha” by the wonderful artist, Nathan-Brown Linking you to two sites because you need to go see them yourself, rather than getting excerpts. Both of them reinforce a point I tried but failed to make a while back, about the use of art, and why it must be nurtured, valued and supported. Artists see things the rest of us do not. By “othersight” I don’t mean anything occultic. I simply mean the view of the inmost being -which I suspect... Read more
The great John Allen, perhaps the best English-language reporter on the Vatican beat, does yeoman’s work in three different articles, to which I am linking today. Allen takes knowledgeable, sometimes devastating but always fair looks at Pope Benedict XVI and the crisis that has engulfed him over the past few weeks and has come to -rather unjustly- define his papacy. None of these pieces is fun to read. All of them are thoughtful, instructive and very valuable, particularly to anyone... Read more
Rocco Palmo has early excerpts of some spontaneous remarks made by Pope Benedict XVI at mass, today: We must rather have the courage, the joy, the great hope that there is eternal life, that eternal life is real life and that from this real life comes the light that illuminates this world as well. The Pope noted that, when we look at things this way, penitence is a grace – even though of late we have sought to avoid this... Read more
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