Sep
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Dappled Thinking
September 1, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Further proof, if more were needed, that one should not go to a place called “liberalcatholicnews” to learn what it is that the Catholic Church actually teaches. Anyone who thinks that it is actually against Church teaching to defend the morality of the war in Iraq on just war grounds is, in a word, mistaken.
The [...]
Sep
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Stormy Weather
September 1, 2005 | Leave a Comment
A post at Gathering Goat Eggs reminds me of a great novel by Carl Hiaasen called Stormy Weather about the devastation visited upon southern Florida by hurricane Andrew in 1992. Much of the action follows the shenanigans of the sorts of folks that Peggy Noonan would like to see shot on sight. It’s rather difficult [...]
Sep
1
Venite, Adoremus!
September 1, 2005 | Leave a Comment
I converted to Catholicism in 1983, more than a decade after the demise of the Latin Mass. At the time I was a graduate student in Classics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, so I was familiar enough with Latin to know that I was not missing out on much compared to [...]
Sep
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Move In Day, Moving Standards
September 1, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Classes will be starting here at Ohio University next Tuesday, and the dorms are officially open for moving in today. This year’s freshman class is the largest on record for Ohio University: like many other colleges and universities in Ohio, Ohio University has had to increase freshman enrollments and raise tuition in order to make [...]
