Jun
20
I’ve Got Your Spirit For You Pal, Right Here
June 20, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Tom expresses his utter lack of interest in the new Mass translations in a post at Disputations. (Zippy notes in a comment there that he doesn’t care enough about it even to put up a post about how he doesn’t care about it.)
As I have mentioned in many posts, I think that a lot of [...]
Jun
20
Fort Worth Holds Fast to Tradition
June 20, 2006 | Leave a Comment
There is a good post at the Shrine of the Holy Whapping on the Fort Worth Diocese’s emergency request for alternate Primatial Oversight after yesterday’s decision by the General Convention of the Episcopal Church to elect a woman as Presiding Bishop.
Jun
20
Dynamic Equivalence Bites the Dust
June 20, 2006 | Leave a Comment
From a Catholic News Service story on the new Mass translation:
In 2001 the Vatican issued new rules requiring liturgical translations to follow the original Latin more strictly and completely — a more literal translation approach called formal equivalence — and the resulting new translation adheres far more closely to the normative Latin text issued by [...]
Jun
19
Naturalism and Eudaimonism
June 19, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Apollodorus has a good post up at Aporetic Rambling on ethical naturalism. Read it quick before he takes it down!
Jun
19
Women in the Church
June 19, 2006 | Leave a Comment
It was only a matter of time before the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States elevated a woman to the episcopacy, and then it was just a little hop and a skip to electing one of the women bishops Presiding Bishop.. The only suprise here is that it took so long: women were first [...]
Jun
16
With competition like this it’s no wonder we’re slipping in the ratings.
Jun
16
No Comment
June 16, 2006 | Leave a Comment
From today’s BMCR missive (2006.06.22), a review of G. E. R. Lloyd’s book The Delusions of Invulnerability: Wisdom and Morality in Ancient Greece, as reviewed by James Jope, independent scholar, and H. Lyman Miller, Hoover Institute:
In spite of Lloyd’s keen understanding of ancient Greek psychology, and the comparison — telling not only for Greece but [...]
Jun
15
And the Rich He Hath Sent Empty Away
June 15, 2006 | Leave a Comment
As I was strolling through the parking lot of the music building today on my way to my trumpet lesson I happened to notice a shiny new Jaguar parked in one of the prime parking places reserved for folks with either lots of service or lots of clout. It was a beautiful machine and I [...]
Jun
15
Why I Will Never Borrow A Bike
June 15, 2006 | Leave a Comment
If I ever had any qualms about riding my bike naked, the Zombie has dispelled them with this chronicle of the Naked Bike Ride in San Francisco. It’s nice to know that all things really are relative, and that, in comparison with some folks, I really do look like Fabio.
Jun
15
Meaning and Music
June 15, 2006 | Leave a Comment
I’m a huge fan of 13th century liturgical chant–who isn’t, after all?–and one of the interesting differences between Catholic and Protestant liturgical music is nicely illustrated by a prominent feature of such composers as Perotin and Leoninus. Listen to some of the clips available at Amazon.com from the collection “Music of the Gothic Era.” [...]
