Friday Morning Film Reflection
Woody Allen’s film concepts range from the brilliant to the brainless, and his execution from masterful to mediocre. I’ll usually give his movies a shot, in hopes of seeing his genius on display, but...
Journeys in Alterity
Obama: Ally of the Diabolical
That’s how Michael Voris, self-knighted champion of Real Catholicism, describes the president. In this worldview, President Obama is quite literally, if unwittingly allying himself with Satan’s ultimate desire to overturn the divinely-ordained natural order,...
The Choice of Models in 2012
Some months ago, Princeton professor Robert George framed the 2012 elections as a choice between two models: 1) the model of the Republican candidates that’s based on “America’s founding principles” of “constitutional and limited...
Whedon and Bureaucracies of Evil
Looks as though Alyssa Rosenberg eagerly anticipates writing more about the upcoming Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard horror movie, The Cabin in the Woods. She withholds overall judgment, but confirms that the film is...
From Natural Purpose to God’s Will: A Fallacious Move
Brian Resnick at the Atlantic treats us to a couple of essays from the 1939 edition of the magazine, one making the case for legal contraception, and the other explaining the Catholic case against...
Where Religion Begins
If I were asked today why I am religious, I would have to begin somewhere, and I would begin where religion begins. Religion begins (and ends) with love. By love I mean the unconditional,...
Echoes on the Road
“There may never be anything new to say, but there is always a new way to say it, and since, in art, the way of saying a thing becomes a part of what is...
Observation
Blogging becomes extraordinarily difficult when done in the presence of an 11-month-old who’s eager for your attention and not at all shy about letting you know.
