Mar
29
Nativity Prep
March 29, 2006 | Leave a Comment
There’s a great story at NPR about Nativity Prep in Wilmington, Delaware. It will make you proud to be a Catholic. If you know Latin, it will make you proud of that, too.
Mar
18
March Sadness
March 18, 2006 | Leave a Comment
I picked Duke to go all the way in my local pool, but although their chances of winning may be good, I didn’t manage to pick some of the upsets that have already occurred. My pool is calculating the scores by multiplying the round number by the seed number, so even if I picked the [...]
Mar
18
Sollemnity Transferred
March 18, 2006 | Leave a Comment
For the two or three people who actually read the Martyrology over there on the right hand side of the screen let me just note that it is always keyed to the calendar date, not to the liturgical tables of precedence. So it shows tomorrow as the Sollemnity of Saint Joseph, even though in the [...]
Mar
13
Every Jot and Tittle
March 13, 2006 | Leave a Comment
If you’ve ever browsed around in various translations of the Gospel of St. John, you may have noticed that there is some difference of opinion as to how best to punctuate verses 3 and 4 of the first chapter. In the King James Version, for example, the two verses read
(3) All things were made by [...]
Mar
11
Properly Formed Conscience
March 11, 2006 | Leave a Comment
In a statement released yesterday by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Cardinals Keeler and McCarrick, along with Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio, re-iterated the Church’s infallible teaching on abortion in response to a recent public statement by 55 Democratic members of the House of Representatives who also happen to call themselves Catholics.
In their statement, drafted [...]
Mar
11
Existential Mystery
March 11, 2006 | Leave a Comment
In spite of previous death of Carrol O’Connor, Archie Bunker found dead in prison in The Hague.
Mar
11
Kent State 72, Ohio 59
March 11, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Oh well, you win some you lose some. The Ohio Univeristy Bobcats lost to the Kent State University Golden Flashes (yes, that really is their team name, but it’s better than the Akron University “Zips”) last night in the MAC semifinals. Last year OU won the MAC tournament and got an automatic bid to the [...]
Mar
10
Book of Divine Worship
March 10, 2006 | Leave a Comment
David Bennett of An Aid to Memory has a post about the Anglican Use Book of Divine Worship, the service book for Roman Catholics of the Anglican Use (basically, Anglicans who have converted to Catholicism but for whom the spirituality and liturgics of Anglicanism are too precious to abandon forever). The book may be ordered [...]
Mar
10
Reason and Racism
March 10, 2006 | Leave a Comment
I quoted at some length the other day from Dummett’s preface to his book on Frege’s philosophy of mathematics. The purpose of that quotation was to raise what I thought were interesting issues related to the every-growing demand put upon young scholars to publish or perish. While it is disappointing to me that my original [...]
Mar
9
Mini Darwin
March 9, 2006 | Leave a Comment
I’m afraid that in all of my pouting and rambling of late I’ve completely neglected paying any attention to the truly miraculous: the birth of a new baby to the DarwinCatholics. I feel particuarly bad about this neglect because, although I don’t know them personally, the Darwins have been very kindly towards me and my [...]