Saturday, June 18, 2011

Through him you give us all these gifts. You fill them with life and goodness, you bless them and make them holy.

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Per quem haec ómnia, Dómine, semper bona creas, sanctíficas, vivíficas, benedícis, et praestas nobis. Through him you give us all these gi...

Snyder on Longerich on the Holocaust

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"Killing was not the original technique of the Final Solution, but it was the technique whose efficacy Himmler proved. [Peter] Longeric...
Thursday, June 16, 2011

"pardoning a fornicator is worse than pardoning a murderer"

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Ha!  Fie, these filthy vices!  It were as good To pardon him that hath from nature stolen A man already made, as to remit Their saucy swe...
Saturday, June 11, 2011

The Catholic liturgist who had never heard of the Te Deum

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"I was present back in the 90s at the ordination in Fort Worth Cathedral (Texas) of a former Anglican priest who had been received into...

Mascall on "the exhibitionism of dogmatic nudists"

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"acquaintance with the theological world in recent years leads one to suspect that the supply of heresies is beginning to run dry.  The...

"It is how you tell their stories that matters."

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"'Don't you think those netsuke should stay in Japan?' said a stern neighbor of mine in London.  And I find I am shaking...
Friday, June 10, 2011

The Fathers on the continuing indaba and mutual listening (and other such failures to fish)

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"Now, if they who hold such views have authority to meet, your wisdom approved in Christ must see that, inasmuch as we do not approve t...