Saturday, February 1, 2014

"The freedom of each American citizen to make doctrinal claims has always greatly exceeded that of any pope."

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     Brad S. Gregory,  The unintended Reformation:  how a religious revolution secularized society  (Cambridge and London:  The Belknap Pres...
Thursday, January 30, 2014

Pope Francis: the Catholic university must do more than bear "witness . . . to the Church's moral teaching"; she must defend the Church's right to wield her in "defense of her freedom . . . to uphold that teaching as authoritatively proclaimed by the magisterium". (Or, at least, so, it would appear, the English.)

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" The vision which guided Father Edward Sorin and the first religious of the Congregation of Holy Cross in establishing the University ...
Tuesday, January 28, 2014

"no freedom of silence, either."

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"We know, of course, that there is no freedom of speech.  But few people realize that there is no freedom of silence, either.  Resident...
Monday, January 27, 2014

A polar bear in the Thames

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Parker Library, Corpus Christ College, Cambridge      "Quotations range from accounts to zoology, though rarely do the two coincide...
Sunday, January 19, 2014

"'How did they ever come to that place, those desolate multitudes, gathered under Satan's ashen skies?'"

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"'what the modern age has taught us is that the kingdom of hell is essentially a respectable place, where the devil is best served...

Ho hum

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"The wide demographic spread of unbelief is without question a modern story that belongs especially to social and cultural history, be...
Saturday, January 18, 2014

"A subjective conception of nature as 'objectively' devoid of God's presence would neatly serve a highly interested view of nature as 'disinterested'".

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"the conception of nature that from the seventeenth century increasingly sought to replace the traditional conception of nature as crea...