Saturday, August 27, 2016

Unjustified Optimism?

The Conversion of the Hellenistic World

The Byzantine Counterpart of St. Anthony of Padua

Dionysian "Mysticism"

Howard Shore Interview

Screen Anarchy

Not a Good Use of Time?

The bonfire, at least...

Catholic Identity Conference Organizers Burn Works of Martin Luther, Celebrate St. John the Baptist

Marion Maréchal Le Pen Il faut déradicaliser la France

Politico-economic Reality

Finance is Not the Economy by Dirk Bezemer – Michael Hudson

But of course

The Big Corporate Money Behind Jerry Brown by Dan Bacher

Feminists Gonna...

A Challenge to St. Paul on Women and a Reply to Fr. Scanlon by Harriet Murphy

The clueless female academic who may be smarter-than-average and thinks she's the equal of a man as a result?

A response: Getting Scripture Wrong: A Response to Harriet Murphy by Fr. Regis Scanlon, O.F.M. Cap

Fr. Rutler on the Canonization of Mother Teresa

Crisis: On the Canonization of Saint Teresa of Calcutta by Fr. George W. Rutler

In a brief count of saints, there are at least 148 who were mothers, and Marie-Azelie Guerin Martin’s daughter was a saint, too—like Marie Zhao Guoshi in China whose daughters…


How many

experts on Japanese culture were consulted for the story?

"Kubo and the Two Strings" is brilliantly animated neo-pagan poison by Nick Olszyk
Along with recent films ParaNorman and Boxtrolls, the Laika studio has a notable track record of promoting New Age progressive spiritual values—and Kubo reaches a new low point.

Victim of the New American State

The Martyrdom of Mary Surratt by Jack Perry

Go watch Robert Redford's underappreciated The Conspirator

The Malaise of Contemporary Conservatism

Paul Gottfried in 2008: The Decline and Rise of the Alternative Right

LWRC

Friday, August 26, 2016

Originally I was going to give this a pass

due to my antipathy towards Tom Hanks. But I found out tonight that Clint Eastwood directs. So maybe...



Kampai! For the Love of Sake Official

Thursday, August 25, 2016

Don't Let the Perfect Be the Enemy of the Good?

Wyoming Catholic College may be better than larger Catholic universities and their secular counterparts, but is it, like the other alternative Catholic colleges, sabotaging its own mission by marketing a liberal education equally to men and women, and in a co-ed format?

Written by WCC's president, Glenn Arbery: Liberal Education and Conditions of Hope

Setting a Lure for the Uhmerican Consumer

Does this commercial appeal to women? And what of the African-American choir?



Only reason I paid attention to it was the cover of the Go-Go's song:

Greyman Video

AN-94

Wednesday, August 24, 2016

I'll Need to Check Out His Recommendations

CWR: Beauty of 20th-Century Music by Paul Senz

While avant-garde art dominated the past century, notes Robert R. Reilly, glorious and melodic music was being written all along, even if often suppressed or neglected.

The Social Justice Agenda Continues?

DOCAT, “spicy peppercorns” and the Pope’s dream
An interview with Bernhard Meuser, editor of the original German edition of DOCAT.

Reading the interview, I have no reason to think that the book will not reiterate tired talking points of "social justice Catholics," which will be some form of nanny liberalism.

Do they realize

that the movie appeals to the same demographic that would support nationalist populism? 'Hell or High Water': The Story Behind Summer's Sleeper Hit

I saw the movie last Saturday -- more on the movie when I have some time.

New STW Podcast