Saturday, June 2, 2012

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"papal infallibility ex cathedra has only been invoked twice, and both times it erred."      "As one wit has put the matte...
Monday, May 28, 2012

"'do your graces think it's an easy job to blow up a dog?'"

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"I know very well what the temptations of the devil are, and one of the greatest is to give a man the idea that he can compose and publ...
Sunday, May 27, 2012

Roeber on Orthodoxy on same-sex unions

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"At least in certain circles, Lutherans now seem to be speaking a language and preparing to 'bless' unions so foreign that the ...
Monday, May 21, 2012

"We must now recognize belief once more as the source of all knowledge."

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     Michael Polanyi, Personal knowledge: towards a post-critical philosophy, pt. 3, chap. 8, sec. 12 ((London: Routledge & Kegan Pau...

Polanyi on "the scientistic Minotaur" born of the illusion of objectivism

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"a dogmatic orthodoxy can be kept in check both internally and externally, while a creed inverted into a science is both blind and dece...
Sunday, May 20, 2012

Don Quixote making his sun rise on the evil and on the good / sending his rain on the unjust and the just alike

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CERVANTES NA FILATELIA ESPANHOLA "'it is not the responsibility or concern of a knight errant to determine if the afflicted, th...

Feast of the Ascension

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"Gladden us with holy joys, almighty God,  and make us rejoice with devout thanksgiving  [(Fac nos . . . exsultare . . . , et . . . læt...