Jun
24
Horse Hockey
June 24, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Speaking of underdetermination (which I was in my last post, in case you were wondering), I’ve been thinking quite a bit about the recent discussion by a panel convened by the National Academies regarding global warming. The so-called “hockey stick” data purports to show that the warming trend induced by human activity is clearly more [...]
Jun
23
WSJ on New Mass Translation
June 23, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Diane at Te Deum laudamus, te Dominum confitemur has posted the text of Michael Foley’s OpEd piece in the Wall Street Journal on the new Mass translation. It’s worth reading.
Jun
23
Try Asking Martha Nussbaum a Challenging Question
June 23, 2006 | Leave a Comment
I’m often intrigued by the ways in which folks interpret questions or arguments that challenge their own arguments or assumptions. In the field of philosophy, questions that appear “hostile” to casual observers are actually rather common, not because philosophers are a hostile bunch but because the main task of the philosopher, at least insofar as [...]
Jun
23
Signs of Intelligence in England?
June 23, 2006 | Leave a Comment
A story in today’s Times Higher Education Supplement “reveals” (their term) the rather startling fact that there are some prominent academics in England who appear to subscribe to creationism or intelligent design (I wonder if they have folks like this guy in mind). I say “rather startling” because one of the things we’ve heard from [...]
Jun
22
Justice and Mercy
June 22, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Today we remember, among others, St. Thomas More, martyred along with St. John Fisher by king Henry VIII in 1535 and canonized in the Church 400 years later. That’s a long time to wait for justice to be done, but presumably in St. Thomas More’s case the justice he received in 1535 at the hands [...]
Jun
22
It Must Have Been the Guy Sitting Next To Me
June 22, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Last night I played trumpet in a concert for the first time in over thirty years. It was something of a rush. The “Communiversity Band” (the name is dumb; if you Google it you’ll find that a lot of universities use it, for some reason) is a summer band here at Ohio University that is [...]
Jun
21
St. Louis Seminarians
June 21, 2006 | Leave a Comment
If you enjoyed the Duel of the Seminarians video I linked to in the previous post, you should check out the other web pages available from various St. Louis Seminarians. Some of them have formed a band called the Priesty Boyz (band site here; blog here), and Jeff Geerling has a blog of his own [...]
Jun
21
Is Michael Grosch a Sith?
June 21, 2006 | Leave a Comment
You’ll have to watch the video to find out.
Jun
20
I Guess We Know Which Side She’s On
June 20, 2006 | Leave a Comment
The newsreader for WOUB-FM, my local NPR station, in recounting the story of the warning to the Episcopal General Convention from the more traditional Anglican domains, referred at least four times to the Anglicans as “the Angelicans”.
Jun
20
Eternal Protest
June 20, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Fr. Kimel has an excellent discussion up at Pontifications about the election of a woman as Presiding Bishop in the PECUSA.