May
31
Never Forget
May 31, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Christopher Blosser has a fine post up at the Ratzinger Fan Club blog site about Pope Benedict’s visit to Auschwitz.
May
31
Take That, Danny Goldhagen
May 31, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Ahh…those were the days….
May
31
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
May 31, 2006 | Leave a Comment
A recent editorial in the local independent newspaper The Athens News made the mistake of referring to the Ohio University administration as the “bosses” and the faculty as the “employees” of the university. This bizarre miscontrual of the structure of a university has become ever more common, especially here in the United States, since the [...]
May
30
Hope For the Future
May 30, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Peer pressure can be a very powerful motivator, especially for the young. That’s why it’s encouraging to find young people with the courage to speak the truth in the face of very negative peer pressure. Dawn Eden has a post up about Ben Kessler, a student at St. Thomas University, who spoke about traditional (Catholic!) [...]
May
27
Ben Shaffer, MMME
May 27, 2006 | Leave a Comment
I just got back from a recital by my trumpet teacher, Ben Shaffer, a graduate student in music education here at Ohio University. It was his graduate recital, which he performed in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Music in Music Education. I mentioned in an earlier post that he [...]
May
26
Requiem
May 26, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Last night I heard the Ohio University Symphony Orchestra and Choir perform Mozart’s Requiem (K626). They did a fairly decent job of it, and I was impressed in particular by the trombone solo in the Tuba mirum. The vocal soloists were also quite good, though they were somewhat engulfed by the largest choir I have [...]
May
25
New Mass Translation Coming
May 25, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Forget the Five Ways–the real proof that God exists lies in the fact that folks are finally beginning to see what a banal translation of the Mass we’ve been saddled with for so long. In spite of the inexplicable opposition of some bishops, it looks like a new translation is in the offing (see the [...]
May
24
Code of Dishonor
May 24, 2006 | Leave a Comment
I’ve been quite perplexed by all the fuss over the Da Vinci Code. My perplexity began with the book, which some lay Catholics regarded as the worst thing to happen to the Catholic Church since the elimination of Index Bibliorum Interdictorum. As books go it’s not a particularly bad mystery, but of course it is [...]
May
19
My 2006 Tour
May 19, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Today I played in my first trumpet recital. The recital was a function of the Athens Community Music School, a service branch of the Ohio University School of Music. I would say that, on average, I was about 35 years older than the other performers, most of whom played either piano or violin. A flautist [...]
May
18
The Trolls
May 18, 2006 | Leave a Comment
I’ve only just noticed a Blogworld phenomenon that I suppose everyone else noticed months ago. Technorati provides a service whereby you can quickly see who is linking to your blog entries (see the “Blogs that link here” link in the right sidebar). For a long time I just ignored that function, since the vanishingly small [...]
