Nov
18
Movies
November 18, 2006 | Leave a Comment
I’m not a huge movie-goer. In the last few years I’ve been to see maybe half a dozen films. I saw all of the Lord of the Rings movies because I’ve been a fanatic about the books since I was 12. I hesitated to go see the movies because when you love a book as [...]
Nov
11
Veterans’ Day
November 11, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Born too late for Vietnam and too soon for the Gulf War, I did not have the honor of serving my country in the military. I think it’s important to take the time to thank those who did serve, however, and Veterans’ Day is a good opportunity to do so. Olivia and I watched the [...]
Nov
7
Doctrine and the Deposit of Faith
November 7, 2006 | Leave a Comment
There is an excellent essay up over at Pontifications by Fr. Al Kimel regarding the rejection, in some quarters, of the historical and theological evidence in favor of the doctrine of papal primacy. As Fr. Al points out, the Vincentian canon cannot be taken to mean that every de fide teaching of the Church must [...]
Nov
6
Immanentizing the Eschaton
November 6, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Don’t get all excited–this isn’t going to be about immanentizing that eschaton. I’m just referring to the fact that this is the last week of classes here at Ohio University, and everything is winding down to the end of term/end of year kind of state. Also, Lisa and Michael will be returning from Paris today, [...]
Nov
5
Celebrating Guy Fawkes’ Day
November 5, 2006 | Leave a Comment
What better way to mark the degree of success the Crown had in crushing English Catholicism in 1605 than to have a look at some nice photos of young Londoners attending a Mass done under the rubrics of 1962, posted by Joee at Joee Blogs. Be sure to scroll all the way down so that [...]
Nov
5
More on Torture
November 5, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Principally in response to I. Shawn McElhinney of Rerum Novarum, Dr. Mike Liccione of Sacramentum Vitae has posted a response to many–if not all–of the salient points at issue in the torture debate. I had been thinking long and hard about a response of my own to Shawn, since he posted an excellent rebuttal to [...]
Nov
5
Dawkins, Dennett, and Delusions
November 5, 2006 | Leave a Comment
There is a rather delicious irony floating around out there these days, and I’m a little surprised that nobody has called attention to it yet.
Sir Karl Popper was a british empiricist who did seminal work in the foundations of the philosophy of science. Among his contributions to the demarcation debate was the suggestion that the [...]
Nov
5
Remember! Remember!
November 5, 2006 | Leave a Comment
The fifth of November, and all of the Holy Catholic Martyrs who were unjustly tortured and murdered by the state, having been falsely accused of complicity in the gunpowder treason.
Nov
4
Holding the Fort and One’s Tongue
November 4, 2006 | Leave a Comment
My wife and son have absconded themselves to Paris, leaving me here in beautiful Athens county with Olivia. Lisa has to go to Paris twice a year as a part of her job as the director of the American office of the international bibliography of classical studies, L’Année philologique. It’s a nasty job, but somebody’s [...]
Nov
2
Traditionalists, Orthodox, and Benedict
November 2, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Theo has a very interesting post up at Vivificat regarding the ramifications of a possible “universal indult” for the Mass of the 1962 rubrics. One of possibilities vetted there–the post is really a discussion between Theo and a “traditionalist” friend–is that a return to older forms will somehow impress the Orthdox that the Latin rite [...]
