Where none is forthcoming...
Back in March: Will Birmingham Give Birth to National Racial Reconciliation? (1957)
An ecumenical and interracial alliance of Birmingham’s Catholic bishop, mayor and Baptist dean of Samford’s divinity school provides a model for discussing and healing racial divisions in the U.S.
by PETER JESSERER SMITH 03
The struggle for racial harmony at any level must begin with the local and there is no guarantee that integration will be the result (nor is that the only ideal). Furthermore, it will take a lot more than the sort of superficial niceness that gets inculcated in public kindergarten.
Thursday, May 12, 2016
Fanning the Flames of "Catholic" Feminism
Cardinal Parolin -- Trusted papal aide says woman could be Vatican’s ‘Prime Minister’
I'd rather see an abolition of much of the Roman Curia instead. L’Osservatore Romano is "updating" itself with a section dedicated to women. How many readers does it have?
I'd rather see an abolition of much of the Roman Curia instead. L’Osservatore Romano is "updating" itself with a section dedicated to women. How many readers does it have?
Wednesday, May 11, 2016
Female Academics Should Not Be Pundits
Donald Trump and the Catholic Vote by Rachel Lu
Ann Coulter is female but not an academic; is she doing the job that men can't or won't do?
Ann Coulter is female but not an academic; is she doing the job that men can't or won't do?
But the Elites Don't Want This
Giving Preference to Christian Migrants by Filip Mazurczak
Since last fall, few political issues have both dominated international newspaper headlines and triggered debate within the Catholic hierarchy as much as the so-called migrant crisis. Recently, many thousands of…
Since last fall, few political issues have both dominated international newspaper headlines and triggered debate within the Catholic hierarchy as much as the so-called migrant crisis. Recently, many thousands of…
Peak Prosperity: M. King Hubbert: The Limits To Oil (Resilience)
Chris Martenson interviews Mason Inman, author of The Oracle of Oil.
Chris Martenson interviews Mason Inman, author of The Oracle of Oil.
Tuesday, May 10, 2016
Looking Forward to the Campaign
Donald Trump’s New Ad Slams Hillary Clinton’s Judgment on Benghazi Attack in 2012
The b*tch won't know what hit her.
The b*tch won't know what hit her.
Old Life: Dueling Videos (via Pertinacious Papist) -- Michael Matt responds to the papal May intentions video. Too much white-knighting in his essay: "He should advocate for the safe return of wives and mothers to the exalted pedestals Christendom built for them a thousand years ago (so despised by the modern feminists)."
Monday, May 09, 2016
Two from Rod Dreher
The Porcupine Option
All Politics (Henceforth) Is Local
For Christian conservatives in post-Christian America, that is — and almost entirely anti-political
All Politics (Henceforth) Is Local
For Christian conservatives in post-Christian America, that is — and almost entirely anti-political
Two from the June 2016 Issue of Chronicles
On Merle Haggard: Sing Me Back Home by Wayne Allensworth
The Mexicanization of North America by H.A. Scott Trask
For nearly 200 years the United States and Mexico coexisted as a series of antonyms separated by a desert. The United States was prosperous and free. Mexico was poor and despotic.
Related: Kacey Musgraves to Honor Merle Haggard at Oklahoma's G Fest
The Mexicanization of North America by H.A. Scott Trask
For nearly 200 years the United States and Mexico coexisted as a series of antonyms separated by a desert. The United States was prosperous and free. Mexico was poor and despotic.
Related: Kacey Musgraves to Honor Merle Haggard at Oklahoma's G Fest
Sunday, May 08, 2016
The Catholic Thing: On the Importance of Friendship by Fr. C. John McCloskey III
A bit of pedestalizing here? "(Women, on the whole, seem to do much better in befriending one another.)"
And then there's this:
Is this ideal more true of one group of settlers from the British isles than the others? (The Scots-Irish, perhaps?) Or is it an erroneous projection of an ideal perpetuated by 20th century American pop culture onto Protestantism?
A bit of pedestalizing here? "(Women, on the whole, seem to do much better in befriending one another.)"
And then there's this:
As one author once wrote, “the average American male has one good friend, and that is his wife” (or, more likely in our era of declines in marriage, his ‘significant other”). Anyone who has spent an extended period in a country with a Catholic cultural background (whether or not actual religious practice has plummeted) has probably noticed how profoundly American men have been affected by our overwhelmingly Protestant culture, with its emphasis on individualism. There is a very powerful image of the strong, isolated male figure in American culture: the autonomous adventurer who rides off into the sunset; the “strong, silent type” who hides his private feelings behind a crusty exterior; the man who is ultimately answerable only to his own conscience.
Is this ideal more true of one group of settlers from the British isles than the others? (The Scots-Irish, perhaps?) Or is it an erroneous projection of an ideal perpetuated by 20th century American pop culture onto Protestantism?
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