Showing posts with label Christendom College. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christendom College. Show all posts

Sunday, September 19, 2021

Definitely Looks out of Place

Friday, October 09, 2020

Eternal Memory



School announcement

Monday, March 23, 2020

Before You Lecture...

Make sure you understand the concrete circumstances which you are addressing. The author of the following, academic dean at Xtendom, does not understand the causes of intergenerational divide in blue urban mass population centers, nor does he understand the particulars of American population centers or the impact of the oligarchs, statists, and leftism or cultural Marxism.

Piety in the Time of Coronavirus by Ben Reinhard

Monday, August 12, 2019

An Example of Convergence Within the American Church

But schools have to advertise their success!

And in so doing, they show how they have accepted liberalism and feminism.

Monday, April 30, 2018

Including Christendom College

The Soros-Funded Attacks on Orthodox Catholic Universities by Austin Ruse

Is NCReg sorry to have hired Simcha Fisher now? Catholic men have been too nice and the problem of entryism has taken hold in all of their institutions.

Friday, June 27, 2014

Fall Break Retreat at Clear Creek

How nice.

Saturday, May 17, 2014

Peter Kreeft Commencement Speaker at Christendom College


Tuesday, December 04, 2012

A Reform in Sacred Music

Requires the [enthusiastic] participation of the laity: For God’s Sake, Make Music by John Jalsevac

Related:
Georgians revive tradition of sacred chanting

Some videos - representative of the tradition?

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

A Good Man for the USCCB

But is one man enough to tackle the following? The USCCB'S Department for Justice, Peace, and Human Development and Catholic Campaign for Human Development.

Jonathan Reyes, the Bishops’ New Man in D.C.
Denver Catholic Charities, Social Ministries Director Named Head Of USCCB Justice, Peace, Human Development Department
Pro-life leaders laud new head of U.S. bishops’ peace and justice department
Patheos
America Magazine
Zenit

"National" Catholic programs administered by the USCCB, just like the program he founded, Christ in the City. (An alternative to the Jesuit Volunteer Corps?)

The bishops may be trying to clean house, which thethe CCHD especially needs, but should they reconsider their approach? It could be argued that one office to cover all these United States is necessary so long as there are factors and agents that affect them all and cannot be effectively addressed through state legislation alone. But an unwieldy bureaucracy cannot replace the needed renewal of the local Catholic churches and their parish communities, which would be better able to perform corporal works of mercy in accordance with the order of charity while evangelizing at the same time. (Moreover, the local Churches need to respect the local culture [and peoples], rather than attempting to replace it with some "natural law" vision of what it should be.)

How can one trust someone who is paid to be "nice"? Is he truly kind or is he merely acting in order to get the paycheck?

Rather than ameliorating problems, such programs, if they are misguided in their principles, may make them worse, reinforcing erroneous beliefs about political communities (especially the question of scale).


On John Carr, Dr. Reyes's predecessor: Ending the USCCB’s Path to Progressive Politics?

Some recent news for the Augustine Institute, which Dr. Reyes helped found.




Augustine Institute Opens New Campus
Augustine Institute Expands Evangelization Effort with New Campus
Bishop Aquila Finds an Ally for Changing the Order of the Sacraments

Whatever else he may think or say, Archbishop Samuel Aquila's writing on restoring reception of the sacrament of confirmation as the second sacrament to be received by the newly initiated deserves a wider audience.

Bishop Aquila receives Pope's praise for reordering sacraments

Related:
From 2007, The New, Lay Face of Missionaries

'We have no king but Caesar:' Some thoughts on Catholic faith and public life
By Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M., Cap. *

Fr. Rutler, Christ in the City

Fr. Fosolm, TEARS, THE WOOD OF THE CROSS, THE WORD, AND THE EUCHARIST

Friday, August 31, 2012

The Institute of Catholic Culture

It's website. FB. Something I'd attend if I were living in the area - Byzantine Vespers and Church Tour at Holy Transfiguration Church.

Now a piece by David Clayton at NLM: The Institute of Catholic Culture - An Organisational Model for the New Evangelisation

Praise be to God if this is a model that can be successfully used elsewhere, but I'm skeptical about whether it is financially feasible or if it can be carried out in an area without a substantial Catholic academic presence (in the case of the ICC, Christendom College). How can the wealth of the American Church (the wealth of the laity, that is) be that different from their non-Catholic counterparts, i.e. on a precarious foundation?

via Christendom College:



Also...
This just seems like a bad decision: Vatican to work with Apple, iTunes to produce e-books

Can't have monks making copies of those books if there is no power source for the device.

Saturday, June 02, 2012

Items of Interest, 2 June 2012

What Did Americans Inherit from the Ancients?
by Russell Kirk

Homer and the Power of Men That Have Chests

Thomas Fleming, State Failure, Human Success

Thoughts on the Queen's Diamond Jubilee: Sixty Years a Rubber Stamp

Squat, Cough and Spread Your Cheeks! Is This Really Constitutional?

Fantasies of Liberty

A Stasi for America

Send In the Homeland Police Drones, Says Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell

Joel Salatin

Judge Napolitano Reacts to Texas Judge’s Decision to Jail Honor Student

The Homophile Agenda and the Attack on Free Speech


Daniel Larison, Some Strange Christian Nostalgia for Pre-Chrisitan Antiquity
Daniel Larison, American Exceptionalism, Foreign Policy and the Washington Rules

Andrew Bacevich, The Golden Age of Special Operations

Rod Dreher, We Should Be More Pagan and Wodehouse Cures Everything

John O'Callaghan, Pentecost and the Mandate (via MoJ)

The NG moms breastfeeding while in uniform

One Human Heart: Wordsworth’s Old Cumberland Beggar and the Sweetness of Being Human by Anthony Esolen

The Rhetoric of Alexander Hamilton by Forrest McDonald

The Household Gods of Freedom
by M. E. Bradford

A review: James Madison and the Making of America: The real story of the early American republic

Courtship, Etiquette, and the Adolescent Male
by Randall B. Smith

The Urgent Need for The Next Great Idea by Robert Nisbet

Investment and the Common Good, by Christopher Blum

Corporate Personhood and 14th Amendment Rights, by Thomas Storck

Subsidy or Subsidiarity, by Gerald J. Russello

Zeal: The Fourth Lively Virtue, by Anthony Esolen

Chinese Natural Law by Zac Alstin

How Modern Heresies Have Isolated Us and Left Us Unfulfilled

An Introduction to the Social Theories of the Middle Ages

JHK, Ponzi's End
Turn Out The Lights - The Largest U.S. Cities Are Becoming Cesspools Of Filth, Decay And Wretchedness


'Americans don't share global domination policies of their leaders'


Cardinal Wuerl:


EB: Fukushima Update, May 29

Christopher Dawson:
Christopher Dawson on Liberalism, Part I
by Brad Birzer, TIC co-editor

In Defense of Christopher Dawson
by Gerald J. Russello

Sustainability:
The Endangered Waters Beneath Our Feet
Five Questions for Carl Safina

Another documentary about overpopulation...


Relocalization:
BALLE Conference: The Heart and Soul of Local

Slow Money Northern California

6th Annual Building Green Communities Conference



Peak fiction excerpt — Buck: A Survivor of The Shut Down

Project Urban Food Forest

Why We Need to Put the Local Back into Local Enterprise Partnerships

Health Care Reform:
Misunderstanding Subsidiarity
By Peter Brown

Dan Bednarz, Goodbye, Bad Knowledge (EB)

Diet and Health:
Farm Fresh Less Expensive than Junk Food

Under Yellow Light: Mark Sisson


The Paleo Diet Moves From The Gym To The Doctor's Office

Episode 11 – Chris Masterjohn on cholesterol & heart disease (Part 1)

The Truth About Cholesterol With Chris Masterjohn (mp3)

How a Low-Carb Diet Affected My Athletic Performance

Misandry:
Hawaiian Libertarian: Diagnosis: ODD

Education:
David Mulroy, The War Against Grammar

The Beauty of a Christendom College Liberal Arts Education

Sales pitch...

The Most Honest Commencement Address You'll Never Hear

Christian:
Pageau Carvings

Evangelization -- One Family at a Time



Who is St Philip Neri according Benedict XVI


Vatican translates rules for assessing apparitions for first time

Music:
NYT obit on Doc Watson

Stetson and Cia Get Married

Misc:
Christina Cha on What Duvet Said Podcast


Top Chef tour - SF, June 16 and 17

The American West 150 Years Ago

How Do You Win a Gunfight

Debunked: 3 Reasons the AR Isn't Reliable

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Items of Interest, 10 May 2012, Part 2

Catholic:
Simplify, Simplify
At 96, Blessed John XXIII's secretary tells tales of his famous boss by Francis X. Rocca (plus some info about Thomas Merton's part in the pope's ecumenical outreach)
Video: John XXIII’s secretary on decision to call Vatican II


Al Sayyid: The Crusading Valor of Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar
by Brendan J. McGuire

Pope tells American colleges to strengthen Catholic identity

Benedict XVI Welcomes New Swiss Guards
Calls Them to Support Each Other in Their Service

The Courage and Fidelity of the Swiss Guard By H. Sergio Mora
Chaplain Gives Inside Look at Vatican Hallmark

Holy Ghost and Holy Spirit

Wilken on "The Catholic Roots of Religious Freedom"

Christendom College's Core Curriculum


Orthodox:
Holy Trinity Monastery to open its doors to the public (May 19) (website)
The Challenges of the Priesthood in Today’s Russia
Overcoming Egoism: On the Sunday of the Paralytic Man by Protopresbyter Alexander Schmemann


Education:
How Classical Education Shapes Us as God Intended by David Kern

Can Colleges Be Saved?


Harry Stein, Chronicle of Servile Education
A respected publication caves to racial bullying.
GL Piggy: Dust, Meet Another One and It Starts
How Black Studies Avoids Studying Blacks

Feminism:
Why Feminism is a Fraud
Thoughts on female suffrage and in vindication of woman's true rights
Feminism, New World Order and Rockefeller's New War

The Thinking Housewife: Gaving at My Navel and My Empty Womb and The Vitalist Woman Returns to Work

Study of the Day: Gender Gap in College Leads Women to Prioritize Work

An introduction to the investigation into the mental health of female medieval mystics (updated)

Roland C. Warren, Octomom: Her Children, Her Choice and Our Responsibility

Marines Moving Women Toward the Front Lines


Diet and Health:
The Hawaiian Libertarian: Paleo Toddler
MDA: Why We Don't Sprint Anymore and a Primal Health Challenge, Is it Primal? 8 Foods Scrutinized
Chris Kresser, Can You Be Healthy if You Don't Eat a Paleo Diet (mp3)
Grass-Fed Beef Health Diet

Paleo Physicians Network and Primal Docs

MovNat LLC Announces the Global Launch of Their Trainer Certification Events for the MovNat© True Nature Fitness System

HBO: The Weight of the Nation


Gary Taubes responds: Why the Campaign to Stop America's Obesity Crisis Keeps Failing
The nation’s most powerful anti-obesity groups are teaming up for a new HBO documentary—but it pushes the same tired advice. Gary Taubes on the research they're ignoring.

Plantar Fasciitis & Tight Hams

9 Food Cures You Can Grow at Home

History:
Was the Union Army's Invasion of the Confederate States a Lawful Act? | James Ostrowski


Has the article been published yet? From December - Sodom and Gomorrah Excavated. Guess How They Were Wiped Out.


English:
Sounds Familiar? Accents and Dialects of the UK

Whit Stillman:
The Decline of Decadence (via Insight Scoop)
A review of Whit Stillman’s Damsels in Distress, a film depicting the search to be rescued from the rampant boorishness of contemporary culture.
Christopher S. Morrissey

Whit Stillman and the art of the courteous comedy

Damsels in Distress BTS Video

Music:
Laurie Lewis Interview

The Vespers - TFW CD Release show ~ 'Instrument for You'


13 Year Old Robbie Mizzone - Lee Highway Blues - Sleepy Man Banjo Boys


Josef Gabriel Rheinberger - Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen


A Fine Frenzy - Almost Lover


Owensboro, Ky., a must-visit place, shows a town taxing and spending with vision

Alan Lomax: Major US Folk Music Archive Makes Online Debut

Barra MacNeils to celebrate 25th anniversay at their alma mater

Misc:
The NST at the USPSA Multi Gun Nationals 2012


Ranger Up Presents: The Secret of Tim Kennedy's Success


The Gear Locker: Podcast #6: Interview with the CEO of Haley Strategic Partners (mp3)

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Items of Interest, 29 March 2012

Two on the subject of empire:
John Michael Greer, America: The Two Empires (EB)
Damien Perrotin, Disunited kingdoms (EB) - he discusses Scottish independence.

Jim Antle, Constitutional Contempt
Time-shifted live-blogging of this morning's Obamacare oral argument in the U.S. Supreme Court.

A Burke for Our Times by Mark A. Signorelli

Bill Kauffman, Peckinpah Country

Philosophy As Therapy

FNC: Hemmer interviews Obama surrogate: hijinx and anti-Catholicism result

Karen De Coster, Why I Am Not a Libertarian

Vox Day: Working Mothers Harm Children
Day Care and the Middle Class

District Holds Second Amendment Applies Outside the Home, Strikes Down Ban on Gun Transportation During

A review of The Holistic Orchard.

Catholic:
Christendom College: Va. Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to Speak at Christendom College

Energy:
The Myth of Peak Oil by GEORGE WUERTHNER
The author misjudges how feasible, economically and otherwise, it is to produce oil from alternate sources.

Feminism and Courtship:
TPM: Constant, Unending Attention

Find a Ukrainian woman! haha.

Younger Women Turning to Domesticity

How To Survive College a Virgin

Diet and Health:
The LLVLC Show (Episode 562): PaleoFX Founders Keith And Michelle Norris Reflect On Their Inaugural Event (mp3)
Robb Wolf, MovNat! On the podcast!
Why Barefoot is Best

Mark Sisson: 6 Books I Am Reading Right Now (plus the Official Release Date of The Primal Connection)
Some of the books sound rather goofy, but what can you expect when it involves recreating the past and the "primitive" psyche?

Music:
The full version of "Hold On"




Someone who participated in Operation Market Garden: Tributes as brave war hero dies at age of 92

TV:
PBS - Gillian Anderson on Great Expectations

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Items of Interest, 15 March 2012

John Michael Greer, America: Modes of Expansion
What would paleos make of his series on American culture and history?

Republicans Pushing Mandates on State Courts

PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS, The Myth of the Rational Market
BARBARA EHRENREICH, Rediscovering Poverty

The Rise of the Machines by Stratford Caldecott

PJB: Rush Limbaugh and the New Blacklist

The death of manners by Kristin Marino

The Higher Education Monopoly is Crumbling As We Speak by Kevin Carey

Does College Destroy Your Faith? By Zachary Gappa
Is the Chronicle of Higher Ed a dependable source? It is noted that RC institutions may have a detrimental impact on students, as was noted many years ago by Arbishop Fulton Sheen and repeated by many Catholics since then. But what of public and non-religious private schools? Are the culture and the environment of these schools toxic to someone who is a beginner and still trying to resist temptation?

Relocalization and Resiliency:
RALPH NADER, The Parasites of Big Finance
The U.S. does not need to be shackled by the global corporatists to what may happen in Greece or Spain or Portugal. We should be less dependent on financial economies abroad and more self-reliant and independent of the global economy’s dangerously contagious risks.


That is why the more community-based economic activity there is in our country – credit unions; renewable, efficient energy; community health clinics; community food markets, etc. – the more insulated we will be from global seismic ravages. Those same community economies would have helped shield the Greek people from the wily clutches of Goldman Sachs and other aggressive casino creditors.

INVEST IN YOURSELF: Building Personal Economic Resilience & Community Strength

Towards economic resilience: Local Dollars, Local sense, an interview with Michael Shuman by Monica Hadley & Caroline Kilbourn (EB) [mp3]

How Cows (Grass-Fed Only) Could Save the Planet

Preventing the Fall of Rome by Gar Alperovitz

10 Alternatives to the Sliced Tomato in Your Winter Sandwich

Peak Oil and Energy:
Tom Whipple, The peak oil crisis: surging gasoline
Reflections on Energy Descent Action Plans: a response to Vera Bradova by Rob Hopkins

Feminism and Misandry:
The Daughters of Feminism Expose the Lie
The Thinking Housewife and Phyllis Schlafly on VAWA.

Catholic:
Looking Again at the Monastère Saint-Benoît, Fréjus-Toulon
Pugin’s Church Becomes Official Shrine of St Augustine

The Party's Over: Mary Eberstadt on men, women, and what the sexual revolution has wrought (via Insight Scoop)
Is she putting too much blame on the sexual revolution, that is to say the technology behind it, rather than the pre-existing culture/ideology (feminism) that made use of that technology?

Celebrating Fr. Buckley's Golden Jubilee: 50 Years in the Priesthood


Teaching Children the Value of Pre-Web Pages

Christendom to Graduate Largest Class in History; Honoring Rev. Kenneth Baker and Mother Agnes Donovan

Diet and Health:
Mysterious Honey Kills All Bacteria Scientists Throw At It




TV:
Bad 'Luck' for HBO Series
HBO ends 'Luck' after equine deaths
‘Luck’ Director Michael Mann Cites TMZ As One Reason Why Show Ended
Michael Mann needs to make some more movies.

Wednesday, July 20, 2011