Healthcare and Tyranny
The editors of Commonweal see nothing tyrannical about the Affordable Care Act’s mandate, which doesn’t surprise me, but I was taken aback by their concluding sentences: There’s nothing tyrannical about it, and even if...
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A Pause to Listen: Yasunori Mitsuda
Part II of an orchestral medley of themes from Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross. Listen to Part I here.
Relativism and Value Hierarchies
Will Truman makes two astute observations concerning the philosophical differences between liberals and conservatives: while both camps may at times use the same words and express the same sort of values, they regularly differ...
Echoes on the Road
“Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love upon earth: the Blessed Sacrament…..There you will find romance, glory, honor, fidelity, and the...
The Cloister of the Universe
Orthodoxy has it that God is all powerful–omnipotent–and yet the story remembered and retold in the Paschal Triduum that begins this evening–Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter Sunday–speaks of a weak God, a figure...
Would Jesus Support Healthcare Reform?
I can’t tell whether John White is being intentionally fatuous or whether he genuinely doesn’t understand Christians on the Left, but either way, his response to John Blake’s article–“Would Jesus support health care reform?–is...
Sullivan Responds
In a post I wrote yesterday critical of Andrew Sullivan’s Newsweek article “Christianity in Crisis,” I noted that works of power were and are necessary for the transmission of the Gospels’ practical messages. Sullivan...
Christianity and Power
In his Newsweek cover-essay, Andrew Sullivan expresses his longing for a “simpler, purer, apolitical Christianity” and anticipates that the religion will rise from its current crisis when “when politics and doctrine and pride recede.” ...
Sympathy with Evil Queens and Other Female Villains
There’s a sort of cultural critic who insists that fairy tales clearly distinguish, both morally and aesthetically, the wide chasm between the figures of good and the forces of evil. I’m thinking of someone...
