Saturday, September 2, 2017

ICEL, the International Commission for Emotivism in the Liturgy?

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Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, 390, p. 84 (c. 980+) How the heck do you get from Domini est terra et plenitudo eius; venite, adoremus...
Friday, September 1, 2017

"The Christian can accept a fact which is incompatible with Christianity: he cannot accept a theory which is incompatible with Christianity."

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     T. S. Eliot, "The Christian in the modern world," a previously unpublished lecture "delivered at the annual meeting of t...

"What ideological and semantic shifts might achieve better results, by enrolling everyone in a more productive dialogue?"

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"Like Gay, when attempting to discuss white privilege, Eddo-Lodge encounters denial and defensiveness — this is, she says, 'one of ...
Sunday, August 27, 2017

The "'structural' sin of modern liberal cultures"

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"the peculiarity of our age lies precisely in its ability to render invisible, as it were, the primacy it accords to relations of power...

Hope springs eternal

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"Believers told each other stories of how Hitler carryied a well-thumbed New Testament in his vest pocket.  Even in 1941, a rumor sprea...
Saturday, August 26, 2017

"The condition of the place has been so sad, that I persuade myself it did exceed all history and example."

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Unauthenticated source      "Eyam plague was not, of course, a romantic interlude in village life: the bloody weight of the epide...

"The real city produces only criminals; the imaginary city produces the gangster."

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     Robert Warshow, as quoted by Oliver Harris in "LA confidential,"  Times literary supplement  no. ____ (August 11, 2017):  26.