A Fair Characterization of the Current Pope?

This Pope Does Not “Do” Doctrine by Dr. William Oddie

He Should Stick to Ecclesial Matters

His critique of Laudato Si' goes too far as he fails to address his own assumptions about energy and technology and corporations: Environmentalism That Harms the Poor by Dr. William Oddie

He and a Lot of Others

Some Questions Cardinal George Would Like to Ask Pope Francis by Dr. William Oddie

World Over - 2014-10-16 – Full Episode with Raymond Arroyo

Francis Must Correct Synod Distortions by Dr. William Oddie
A Critique of Cardinal Kasper’s Latest Arguments by Monica Migliorino Miller
The Synod’s Interim Report: Ambiguity and Misinterpretation by Eduardo Echeverria

More from Crisis on Benedict XVI

Benedict’s Intellectual Mentors and Students by Tracey Rowland
The Strange World of Garry Wills by Tom Piatak
Will the Next Pope Oppose the “Dictatorship of Relativism” as Fiercely as Benedict? by Dr. William Oddie

More Reflections on Benedict XVI

NLM: Dom Alcuin Reid: "Farewell to a Gentle Liturgical Reformer" (I can't find the original at The Catholic Herald)

Fr. Fessio's Pope Benedict
CWR exclusive: Fr. Fessio on Pope Benedict’s resignation

The Pope and the Philistines by Tracey Rowland

Related: How, during the lifetime of a pope, can his successor gain the authority he needs? We are in a time of uncertainty: but we are also in God’s hands by William Oddie

Items of Interest, 18 March 2012

Rod Dreher, Why Conservatism Can't Win

St. Calhoun, Part I by Bradley J. Birzer - Part II

Brig. Gen. Paul J. LaCamera to be deputy commanding general at USASOC

Intelligible Goods, Marriage, and Intellectual Conversion by R.J. Snell

Executive War Powers Have Strict Constitutional Limits

Galileo: Anti-Hero of Science

Paul Gottfried, Obama's Grievance Politics
“National Defense Resources Preparedness” executive order: Power grab or mere update?

Wisconsin Senate Passes Healthcare Freedom Act
Conservatives Slam House GOP For "Betrayal" of States' Rights
Free Sterilizations Must be Offered to All College Women, Says HHS

So will the American bishops and Catholic institutions work with states to block Obamacare so that at least the Church will be protected in some areas? Or will they just play along with the rules of the nationalist system so that they can act the martyr?

Because of the latest developments, it once again appears that it might be better to support the Grand Oligarchy Party even though it gives scraps to social conservatives, because it at least won't be as radical as Obama if it controls the executive. Though there is no reason to think that the party will resist changes coming from any of the branches of the National Government. It will undoubtedly continue to promote oligarchy and as a result, pave the way for further destruction of economic freedom and community.

Is there a way to get around the requirements of Obamacare by changing labor contracts, so that employees are more like contractors or consultants?

Church Not State by D.G. Hart
Christians must choose between faith or worldly relevance

Grit Artisan: The Other Side of Racism

Study Finds That Corn Insecticides Are to Blame for Deaths of Honeybees

Nations, Liberalism, and Science by Peter Augustine Lawler

Economics:
Richard Heinberg, What is Sustainability
Alternative finance radicals: Infusing rebellion with entrepreneurial creativity
The Truth About “Free Trade” by David S. D'Amato
Big Oil, Big Government, and Big Hypocrisy by Kevin Carson

Catholic:
William Oddie, Bishop Davies of Shrewsbury says we need to face the reality of hell during Lent. It’s such an unusual thing for a bishop to say that it made a Herald headline

The Mystery of Monasticism: History, Spirituality and Vocation

Education:
E. Christian Kopff, Greek to US: The Death of Classical Education and Its Consequences
Shannon Hayes, From Homeschooling to Unschooling


Diet and Health:
The 4th MovNat principle: Practical
Triathlete’s paleo diet with bone broth dramatically reduces osteoarthritis pain

Music:
Watch Jason Aldean's 'Fly Over States' Video BY HUNTER HAUK

Heejun Han Performs Right Here Waiting on American Idol

Stile Antico "Tune thy Musicke to thy Hart" : Tudor & Jacobean music for private devotion

More poseuwear:
Glock Apparel

Larry Vickers:




Product Review Haley AK-74 Rifle

TV:
Person of Interest Renewed!

Can I get a job with Benchmade? Fed grant to help Oregon companies hiring & training .

Items of Interest, 11 October 2011

Economy:
Daly's steady-state economics by Barath Raghavan (EB)
Ralph Nader, Masters of the Big Lie
Richard Aleman, The Immigrants Part II
On the cusp of collapse: Complexity, energy & the globalised economy by David Korowicz (EB)

A write-up on the FPR Conference: There's No Place Like Home
Russell Arben Fox, Global Warming, Local Farming, and Naomi Klein: A Trip to the Land Institute
Jane Jacobs: A Symposium

Different Perspectives on Occupy Wall Street (and similar events):
David Korten: Wall Street Occupiers, the Future Depends on You
Distributist Review: The Beginning
The Spearhead: Occupy Wall Street Is Just Another Vehicle For Misandry - The Spearhead
Heartiste: Occupy Cupertino

Peak Oil:
Destroying dreams the peak oil way by Kurt Cobb (EB)

U.S. Constitution:
What Constitutionalism Means
Kevin Gutzman: “Virginia's American Revolution" (mp3 and transcript) [tiny url]

Catholic:
Interview with Dr. Alcuin Reid in Deutsche Tagepost: The Council, Organic Development, Rupture and Continuity
Dom Mark Daniel Kirby on the Propers of the Mass - Council and Continuity Conference, Phoenix
William Oddie, A daring decision fulfils a Newman Prayer
Jeff Culbreath, "Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in ..."

Education:
Why Language Sets Us Free

Diet and Health:
HealthWatch: Doctors Warming To Caveman Diet Trend

History:
How People Spoke: The Regency Era (via Tea at Trianon)

Music:
Song Premiere: First Aid Kit, 'The Lion's Roar'
(official and MySpace)

Items of Interest, 6 July 2011

Harmonia Early Music: Who Is Shakespeare’s Dark Lady? (mp3)

William Oddie, The Ordinariate's Liturgy is Beginning to Emerge(via Ordinariate Portal)

NPR: Service Just One Reason To Join The Military (An interview with Dr. Bruce Fleming, who wrote "The Academies’ March Toward Mediocrity.")

This interview was way too short.

30 Under 30: Futurist Foodies

Arrival of the post-petroleum human (Michael Ruppert interview)
Janaia Donaldson, Peak Moment Television (EB)

Toward a Post-Growth Society by James Gustave Speth
It’s business as usual that’s the utopian fantasy, while creating something very new and different is the pragmatic way forward.

What would happen if control over capital were redistributed, and the ability to purchase capital were curtailed. What would the wealthy do with their money? Would they spend it on consumer goods? If they didn't, would the currency that they hold lose its value in effect?

Items of Interest, 22 June 2011

What A waste! The scoop on poop and ecological wastewater management
Jill Cloutier, Sustainable World Radio

Praise be baling wire and binder twine

Gene Logsdon, The Contrary Farmer, Mulligan Books

Franklin C. Spinney, The Myth of Precision-Guided Coercion

William Oddie, Chesterton’s prophetic voice, now increasingly being heard once more, is still relevant to the new age (via Ordinariate Portal)

Adrian Ayres Fisher reviews The Wealth of Nature: Economics as if Survival Mattered. (EB)

William Oddie, Curiouser and curiouser: the Pope has now turned the Book of Common Prayer (well, quite a bit of it) into a Catholic liturgy (via the Ordinariate Portal)

Adam Schwartz's review of Chesterton and the Romance of Orthodoxy: The Making of GKC, 1874–1908 by by William Oddie.

William Oddie references Stephen Hough's essay

William Oddie: ‘The Anglican Catholic patrimony which the ordinariate will bring has been enriching us for years’

(I posted a link to Stephen Hough's essay here.)

William Oddie, The call for a new Syllabus of Errors, this time on Vatican II, should be heeded (via Fr. Z)

The text of the address by Bishop Athanasius Schneider (via Fr. Z and Rorate Caeli)

If such a syllabus were to come out, I do not think it would be issued before negotiations with the SSPX ended?

The ordinariate is happening, at an unprecedented pace
The speed of the operation is possible because of the Pope’s personal knowledge of those involved
By WILLIAM ODDIE

(via Atonement Online)