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Everything is Broken
In a recently highlighted post by Alana Newhouse on the Tablet website entitled Everything Is Broken the author generalizes from her experience with what she describes as a broken US medical establishment to musing on how every other part of … Continue reading
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Tagged Bob Dylan, forgiveness, hope, mercy, original sin, sin, tradition
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Memory and Tradition
“The appeal to tradition is not a mere remembrance of the past; it involves rather the recognition of a cultural heritage which belongs to all of humanity. Indeed it may be said that it is we who belong to the … Continue reading
Maundy Thursday & Richard Wilbur…The Rule
The Rule The oil for extreme unction must be blessed On Maundy Thursday, so the rule has ruled, And by the bishop of the diocese. Does that revolt you? If so, you are free To squat beneath the deadly manchineel, … Continue reading
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Tagged Humanae Vitae, Maundy Thursday, Pope Paul VI, Richard Wilbur, tradition
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Summer Newsletter & Complimentary Download – King Lear Pt 4
Here in California it looks like we are in for another difficult and dangerous fire season. The skies are again hazy with the smoke of numerous not too distant blazes. As we pray for those who fight the fires and … Continue reading
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Calculus
The school year has begun and many high school and college students are beginning the study of calculus – the mathematical study of continuous change. In the present age, if one lives through all the intimate and personal changes from … Continue reading
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Tagged change, Christianity, evangelism, family, Heraclitus, morality, New Evangelization, Rainer Maria Rilke, tradition, truth
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A Look Back At – Tradition
The word “tradition” and the word “treason” come from the same root. The very name “modernity” self-consciously used to describe the period of the last several centuries in Western cultural history clearly exemplifies the spirit … Continue reading
A Lenten Reflection – The Multiplication Table
The website The Catholic Thing has published a Lenten reflection by Gil Bailie entitled, The Multiplication Table. It is a classic piece of Gil’s work. I especially appreciate the play of the title and the text. ‘Multiplication table’ is not … Continue reading
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Tagged Eucharist, G K Chesterton, Lent, René Girard, tradition
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Kairos, Courage, Love
In his Trojan Horse in the City of God, Dietrich von Hildebrand wrote of the way a particular historical situation compels Christians to speak a perennial truth with special forcefulness. The Greek term for such moments is kairos, what von … Continue reading
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Tagged abortion, Dietrich von Hildebrand, family, kairos, morality, political correctness, tradition
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Utopia
“Those who advocate Utopia presume that they can become fathers of the future without having been children of the past.” – Hans Urs von Balthasar
