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Wednesday, March 10, 2010  

Predictably, American RC bishops go for Obamacare
Well-meant charity etc. LRC’s Christopher Manion explains.

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From Joshua

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Tuesday, March 09, 2010  

Owen White on the irony of those who criticise book theology

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LRC picks

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Monday, March 08, 2010  

Mysticism debased
From Rod Dreher

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Government health care is not about health care; it’s about government

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The mainline denominations are only interesting to the media as foils for conservative religion
Obama can take you for granted just like the Republicans do conservative Protestants and pro-lifers. More.

He can take Bad Catholics (like his veep) for granted too.

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Five creepy ways video games are trying to get you addicted

Flipping the switch in the part of your brain that works like a hamster’s.
According to everything expert Malcolm Gladwell, to be satisfied with your job you need three things, and I bet most of you don’t even have two of them:

Autonomy (that is, you have some say in what you do day to day);

Complexity (so it’s not mind-numbing repetition);

Connection Between Effort and Reward (i.e. you actually see the awesome results of your hard work).
Check, check and check.

If you haven’t got these, the video game is supposed to make you feel like you do.

From Cracked.

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Sensible people see through Keynesian economics
From LRC

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Sunday, March 07, 2010  



Obsolete occupations

From Rod Dreher

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Clarity on ecumenism or more obnoxiousness doing business as orthodoxy?
An Orthodox blogger likes the way an in-your-face trad blog denounced the way Pope Benedict wished the Patriarch of Constantinople a happy birthday.

A one-true-church claim is part of what defines a Catholic church; it’s not a denomination. Which is why the Orthodox understood and respected Dominus Iesus while the mainline complained; the Pope was speaking their common language!

The matter at hand: Rome while in no way compromising its claim seems to acknowledge never-RC Orthodox bishops as having not only holy orders but jurisdiction over their never-RC people. (What it means when it says the Orthodox are churches; Protestants are non-churches, ‘ecclesial communities’ being the polite term for church-like collections of Christians.) The same benefit of the doubt that makes venerating post-schism Orthodox saints possible, even liturgically among the highest-church of the Greek Catholics (the Melkites and St Gregory Palamas; the tiny Russian Catholic Church and all the Russian Orthodox saints). Which sounds fine to me and in their usual unwritten customary way is mirrored by the Orthodox, who venerate pre-schism Popes as Popes and have never appointed an Orthodox replacement Pope. Even with the difference over his scope as the one real division between the two sides, it’s understood that the reigning Pope is who he says he is.

This benefit of the doubt given to people born on the other side is how I interpret the old-school condemnations, as applying not to them but to people who switch.

Of course I do hope that generosity doesn’t mean I’m one jump removed from the old relativists of Call to Action (wannabe mainliners who don’t like high church).

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Aggressive secularism
Damian Thompson reports:

“An assault on natural law”, which imposed “unjust limitations on the freedom of religious communities to act in accordance with their beliefs.”

As clergymen are warned they could be sued if they refuse to carry out homosexual “marriages” in church, what will the Equality Bill mean for religious doctrine?

The unique feature of Gordon Brown’s government is not its economic incompetence. Rather, it is doctrinaire secularism. For the first time in British history, no one sitting around the Cabinet table holds traditional Christian views that defy the liberal consensus.
From here.

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What life have you if you have not life together?

There is no life that is not in community,
And no community not lived in praise of
GOD.
Even the anchorite who meditates alone,
For whom the days and nights repeat the praise of
GOD,
Prays for the Church, the Body of Christ incarnate.
— T.S. Eliot

From here.

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Ecclesiastical bibs and bobs

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Saturday, March 06, 2010  

Five reasons the Oscars matter even less than you thought
From Cracked

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The Tenthers
Common knowledge says non-interventionist means Nazi (from WWII propaganda) and states’ rights means racist. (Racist really means believing race is determinative and wanting to base the law on that.) From Karen De Coster.

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Style and substance in film
From Taki

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Shaping souls, national character and revolution
From LRC

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A trailer for every Academy Award-winning movie ever

From Cracked

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Friday, March 05, 2010  

From RR

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What America’s putative pro-life party did in Iraq

Yesterday there was another news item that, unlike Rove’s book, has received scant attention. It speaks directly to the legal culpability of Bush, Rove and the other criminals who should be arrested rather than doing book tours.

CBS News reports, “Doctors and parents in the Iraqi city of Fallujah are blaming a sharp increase in the number of birth defects on the highly sophisticated weapons U.S. troops have used in the city during the war.

“The BBC reported Thursday the staggering statistic from doctors in the city that the number of heart defects found in newborn babies is 13 times the number of similar birth defects in Europe.”

Bush ordered Fallujah to be essentially destroyed in 2004.

The CBS story states: “British-based Iraqi researcher Malik Hamdan told the news organization that one doctor compared the number of birth defects from before 2003 to today. Before the war began, she saw about one case every two months. Now she sees cases every day.

“Her research shows that as of January, the rate of congenital heart defects was 95 per 1,000 births or 13 times Europe’s rate.” Bush is guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Many tens of thousands of children have died directly as a consequence of Bush’s war that was based exclusively on lies and deceit. In addition to the spike in birth defects, a whole generation of Iraqi children will face a lifetime of physical and emotional wounds. Seventy percent of children are suffering from trauma-related symptoms reports the Iraqi Society of Psychiatrists and the World Health Organization. That conclusion was based on a survey of 10,000 primary school students.

We owe it the people of Fallujah and all the still suffering people in Iraq to let them know that “We The People” in the United States, like they, recognize that a government that spoke in our name committed some of the worst atrocities in modern times.
From here.

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Ron Paul: ‘if I were president’
From LRC

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Thursday, March 04, 2010  

The tea parties of no
From Thomas Knapp

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Notre Dame and Fordham have weekly Tridentine Masses
Pope Benedict’s revival is under way... getting a following among the kids

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Cracked goes to the Oscars

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Arturo on lack of vocations
A trad who’s not a romanticiser nor judgemental (‘blame contraception’, a practice that’s wrong and self-defeating but that’s too pat an answer to this problem) like the protestantised neocons

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30 error messages you don’t want to see
From Cracked

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Wednesday, March 03, 2010  

The decline of RC schools
From GetReligion

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The Falklands are none of America’s business
It’s a little like Northern Ireland: geographically it should belong to one country but the majority want to belong to another only there’s no dispossessed Argentine minority. Either defend the locals or evacuate them.

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Right young things
Daniel McCarthy on Frank Chodorov and the young’s potential today. From Joshua.

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