Saturday, February 5, 2011

The ACI on Dublin

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"If church history, including our own recent experience, teaches anything it is that neither confessions without instruments nor instr...
Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Was ever an amulet so variously translated? Or is it just my French?

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With gratitude to Michelle Beauclair for her help with a line of Testa's French.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011

"Good idea the repetition"

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"Mass seems to be over.  Could hear them all at it.  Pray for us.  And pray for us.  Good idea the repetition.  Same thing with ads.  B...
Saturday, January 29, 2011

Madame de Staël on Napoleon

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"of the whole inheritance of his dreadful power, there remains nothing to mankind but the baneful knowledge of a few secrets the more i...

"in these last days"

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"But now that the faith is established through Christ, and the Gospel law made manifest in this era of grace, there is no reason for in...
Monday, January 24, 2011

Kierkegaard on "the Christian like for like"

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“Just one more thing, remember the Christian like for like, eternity’s like for like. . . . “. . . Christianity is not infrequently present...
Sunday, January 23, 2011

Polanyi on the post-Copernican call "to abandon all sentimental egoism, and . . . see ourselves objectively in the true perspective of time and space"

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"Here, then, are the true characteristics of objectivity as exemplified by the Copernican theory.  Objectivity does not demand that we ...