On breaking a dominant lie
We all know the nursery rhyme: Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall/ Humpty Dumpty had a great fall/ all the king’s horses and all the king’s men/ couldn’t put Humpty together again. It’s a kindergarten […]
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We all know the nursery rhyme: Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall/ Humpty Dumpty had a great fall/ all the king’s horses and all the king’s men/ couldn’t put Humpty together again. It’s a kindergarten […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 25, 2022 | Abortion, blogging, Books, Broadway, G.K. Chesterton, George Orwell, News, Nigeria, Philosophy, sacred music, solidarity, Subsidiarity, The Dispatch, University of Dallas, War in Ukraine? | 0 |
The Leaked Decision – “The leaking of Justice Samuel Alito’s abortion decision caused leftist journalists and celebrities to erupt in hate-filled attacks on Supreme Court justices” Journos and Celebrities RAGE Over Supreme Court Abort…
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Tolkien and Chesterton – “J.R.R. Tolkien and G.K. Chesterton, two great champions of the modern fantasy genre, understood literary creation, and art in general, as somehow expressing God’s creativity in the world.” The Theology of […..
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Tolkien and Chesterton – “J.R.R. Tolkien and G.K. Chesterton, two great champions of the modern fantasy genre, understood literary creation, and art in general, as somehow expressing God’s creativity in the world.” The Theology of […..
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 18, 2022 | Abortion, George Orwell, Misinformation, News, Patriarch Kirill, Russia, The Dispatch, Ukraine | 0 |
There are striking parallels between the Russian disinformation campaign that continues to foul the global communications space in the third month of the war on Ukraine and the hysterical screeds of pro-abortion American politicians after […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 5, 2022 | Africa, Algeria, conversion, England, France, George Orwell, News, Père Charles de Foucauld, secularism, The Dispatch | 0 |
On May 15 the Catholic Church will canonize Père Charles de Foucauld, a missionary priest active in French Algeria just over a century ago. But his rank of sainthood comes with rancor. Critics of France’s […]
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Cardinal Mueller on the rise of legal philosophies that reduce human beings, the unborn especially, to mere pawns in an Orwellian game.
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Francis X. Maier: Assume the best in others. Critique issues and behaviors, not persons. Spoken words can be forgotten; not so written words.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 30, 2021 | 2021, Columns, Declaration of Independence equality, equality v. equity, FAQs, Francis X. Maier'a "Voodoo and Its Enchantments", George Orwell, James V. Schall, Josef Pieper, magic nouns, News, Newspeak, Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing | 0 |
Francis X. Maier: Language shapes thought. Thought shapes choices and actions. Choices and actions shape and reshape the world.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 21, 2020 | 1984, Aristotle, COVID-19, Essay, Features, George Orwell, God, News, Plato, Walker Percy | 0 |
Walker Percy’s father committed suicide when Walker was a teenager. After his mother drove her car off a Louisiana bridge, he was raised by an agnostic first-cousin. Such experiences have driven many a young soul […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 23, 2020 | 1984, Black Lives Matter, Featured, George Floyd, George Orwell, Immanuel Kant, Nazi Germany, News, Politics, Weekly Headlines | 0 |
“We could have a summer of love.” — Jennifer Durkan, Mayor of Seattle “At last I am free!” declared Martin Niemoller, holding a small book as the prison door was locked behind him. He had been allowed to keep a Bible, and his words would have been an inscrutable paradox only to those who do […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 19, 2020 | Art & Culture, Donald J. Trump, Featured, George Orwell, Nancy Pelosi, News, Weekly Headlines, woke capitalism | 0 |
Published 75 years ago in 1945, George Orwell’s Animal Farm presents revolution as a thing true to its name: revolving and returning like an infernal circle to the despotic power and blind capitulation originally repulsed. It is a principle suggestive of an ingrained brutality in political animals that cannot be broken. And the political animals […]
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