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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).
This is why people can’t stand you:In your own repulsive and appalling way, you are some of the best friends the pro-life movement has and you do more to persuade people on the fence of your inhuman hatred of children, and of their inalienable right to life than all the abstract arguments in the world. So…
Healing the Culture may have a job for you!
In which we look at one of those confusing Catholic bits of jargon that make perfect common sense once you get past the confusingnessitudinosity of the jargon.
Seven year old brain cancer patient Jack Hoffman runs a 69 yard touchdown:I’m told his cancer has returned.Father, heal Jack completely in body, soul, and spirit. Gran his caregivers grace, compassion, wisdom, counsel, knowledge, creativity, insight, skill, and the proper technology to assist in that complete healing so that he can live a long, full…
The Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology writes:Dr. Ed Feser will join DSPT faculty members Michael Dodds, OP and Anselm Ramelow, OP in a symposium on “God, Reason and Reality”, a book edited by Anselm Ramelow, OP. The event will take place at 2301 Vine Street, Berkeley on Saturday, November 8 at 10:00am.Go to dspt.edu/godreasonreality for more…
A reader writes:I know you’re great at getting the word out. This seems well worth it to me. No personal connection just a love for Catholic musicians.http://www.gofundme.com/e37czohttps://www.facebook.com/thethirstingThe gettingoutness of the word has now occurred.
A reader writes:The text “Many are called, few are chosen” is often used to defend the theology of Election and Predestination. How would a Catholic interpret this?I’m not sure how that particular text is used in that discussion (such matters are typically hashed over by converts from Calvinism, not by former Arminians like me). However,…
Jesus reveals that true manhood loses itself for the beloved. But what if we don’t see others as exactly loveable, let alone “beloved”? If you are having trouble really loving, perhaps you’re having trouble seeing. We look at humanity and the humans that make it up (even those close to us) and see sin, error,…
Heavily armed drug cops raid retiree’s garden, seize okra plantsIf we let the elderly fry their okra, we might as well just give Hezbollah our whole freaking Navy. – Reader Michael LichensIn other “Georgia police invading homes to kill and maim for nothing” news, this man was killed, in his drug-free home, by a SWAT…