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NPR is calling it a “seismic change”. Hysterical Reactionaries like Christopher Ferrara in my email box are calling it a “catastrophe” while declaring that the Pope worships an “invented deity”. (Remind me again: the difference between Reactionary Catholics and Fundamentalist Protestants is what now?) And the Catholics in the middle are just trying to figure out what’s…
Maureen Wittman writes:To help promote Catholic College Month, Behold Publications donated a copy of Phil Lenahan’s Generation Next: A Catholic Guide to Financial Freedom for Young Adults to giveaway.Catholic College Month is hosted by Homeschool Connections and provides FREE webinars for parents and students. The first webinar is tonight on the topic of how to…
Coupla gigs coming up:First: I will be at the University of Washington Newman Center tonight at 7:00, talking about the theological foundations of Catholic Social Teaching. This is one of the fruits of the Vocare Movement project to teach the entire Compendium on the Church’s Social doctrine. We will have twelve different people writing study…
Some bourgeois slobs are claiming the Cowboys “beat” the Seahawks (if you are the sort of philistine who thinks “scoring more points” constitutes “winning” in football.) We in Seattle live by a higher code, a higher vision. So we know that, on the Gridiron of the Spirit, the Hawks won. Ours is a high and lonely destiny.
A reader writes:I recently read your article “Just Exactly Where is the Church?”. In it you mentioned that“Rather, the Church teaches that because validly baptized non-Catholics are real members of the Body of Christ, they share in the life of the Blessed Trinity and therefore share with Catholics the hope of salvation”I was wondering how…
Wellllll… I don’t see the harm in just one thinnnn mint. Just one more thinnnn mint!
…are all being discussed over at the Register.
1. How did “radical” move from meaning “rooted” to meaning “utterly unrooted in anything that is normal”?2. How did “literally” go from meaning, you know, “literally” to meaning “figuratively” (as in “my head *literally* exploded).