My Secular, Jewish Father Loved Christmas
I have been privileged to meet many of the finest and purest Christians in the world, some of them Catholic and some not; mind you, most of the latter have since crossed the river or […]
Month: December 2012
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“Connecting crib and cross”: On Benedict XVI’s new book
The Wall Street Journal has a review (ht: C.F.) of Benedict XVI’s book, Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives, written by professor Anthony Esolen, prolific author and frequent contributor to CWR: Any scholar who would write on the […]
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O Radix Jesse!
More on the “O Antiphons” can be found here.
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Requiescat in pace, Robert Bork
CNN and others are reporting the death of Robert Bork early this morning: Former federal judge and conservative legal scholar Robert Bork died early Wednesday at his Virginia home, his family confirmed to CNN. He […]
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A “major victory” in federal court for those opposing the HHS mandate
Big news from the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, the law firm representing those challenging the Obama administration’s contraception mandate: Today [Tuesday, December 18], a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. handed Wheaton College and Belmont Abbey […]
Film & Music
Spielberg’s Lincoln: Politics as Mathematics
The reason why Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln is such a disappointment may perhaps be evident to those who have studied philosophy. For example, Trinity Western University professor Grant Havers, in his book Lincoln and the Politics […]
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A Christopher Dawson revival?
The Making of Europe: An Introduction to the History of European Unity by Christopher Dawson (London: Sheed and Ward, 1932; Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2003; new introduction and reprint) We have […]
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O Adonai!
More on the “O Antiphons” can be found here.
Clark on China
The Two Sides of China’s Party
I have lived in China several times since my first stay in 1996, when I lived in Beijing as a Chinese language student. Deng Xiaoping was still alive then, and people thought that China was […]
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O Sapientia!
Today marks the start of the “O Antiphons,” which are traditionally sung during Vespers on the seven days before Christmas. Fr. Z. has an excellent run-down on the antiphons and their place at the very […]