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O Clavis David!
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Pope: “The birth of Christ challenges us to reassess…our very way of life.”
From the Vatican Information Service: Vatican City, 20 December 2012 (VIS) – The “Financial Times” daily newspaper has today published an article by Benedict XVI entitled “A time for Christians to engage with the world”. […]
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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!
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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!
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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 […]