Eye-rolling at the movies.

A relative gave us money as a gift and bid us to take the kids to a movie. So we went to the movies for perhaps the second time this year. Planet 51 was mostly unoffensive but forgettable. Not so the twenty minutes of previews. Let’s see, we have Jackie Chan, who appears to have [...]

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There are no little victories

Fr. Philip astutely pegs the battle over liturgical translations:
In my experience, people rarely argue over the Real Issue at Hand. We tend to choose what I’ll call “ciphers,” or symbols that allow us to reduce a larger problem into smaller, manageable bits. At stake in the Liturgy Wars is the soul of the [...]

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Bridge over River Kwai theme and the unknown and weird B-Section

Whistle along. You know you can’t resist:

But what to do when you get to about 1:12 into it? Ha! Haven’t heard that part before have you? As a band composition it’s fine, but imagine trying to whistle it in a Japanese POW camp:

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Quote of the Day

CMR comments on the movie “The Box”:
And all I could think was that maybe this movie was an unintentionally telling benchmark on our national psyche. Are we so far gone as a society with abortion, embryonic stem cell research, and euthanasia and an overall lack of morals that we can’t even have decent moral conundrum [...]

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Emboldening the orcs

Patrick Madrid is reporting that the debate between Dawkins and Archbishop Onaiyekan and Ms. Widdecombe over “Whether the Catholic Church is a force for good in the world” went very poorly for the Catholics.

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The most fundamentalist Christian, anti-abortion country in the world reports no link between abortion and cancer

Oh wait, that headline is completely wrong: CNA
Chinese researchers claim to have found a 17 percent increased breast cancer risk among women who have had induced abortions.
Peng Xing and other researchers in the Department of Oncology at the First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University enrolled in their study 1,417 patients diagnosed with breast cancer [...]

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Coolest name for a Catholic blog E-VAH

Fallible Blogma.

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Pluralism IS a religion

My “Holy book” is the constitution of the United States. –commentor Michael J. Murray-Magill
 
Various bloggers like John C. Wright and LarryD noted the story of a UK man who got a court to recognize that his belief in man-made global war…err…climate change was equivalent to a religious belief and all the protections that go with [...]

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All Hail Bacon!

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Fr. Erik declares YouTube war on humanity.

Witness this atrocity: Link
Return fire!

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