On the ever-accelerating passage of time
In one of his Blackford Oakes novels, William F. Buckley, Jr. had a character crack a Wagnerian joke along these lines: What is Siegfried? Siegfried is the opera that begins at 7 p.m. and when […]
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by bcadmin | Aug 10, 2022 | eternity, John Courtney Murray, News, The Dispatch, time, Wagner, William F. Buckley | 0 |
In one of his Blackford Oakes novels, William F. Buckley, Jr. had a character crack a Wagnerian joke along these lines: What is Siegfried? Siegfried is the opera that begins at 7 p.m. and when […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 24, 2021 | Columns, Dignitatis Humanae, Features, Jean Danielou, John Courtney Murray, News, Politics, Prayer, Religious Freedom, the Enlightenment, The Past Present | 0 |
In 1965, the Church finally made peace with modern politics through Dignitatis Humanae, the Second Vatican Council’s statement on religious freedom. The meaning of religious freedom and the nature of Catholic politics within a pluralist […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 12, 2020 | Archbishop Charles Chaput, Art & Culture, Featured, illiberalism, integralism, John Courtney Murray, John F. Kennedy, News, Orestes Brownson, Weekly Headlines | 0 |
The apogee of collaborationist Catholicism, alongside its more radical co-religionists, was undoubtedly the day of my birth: November 8, 1960. It was the day John F. Kennedy was elected president. He had already paid the price of admission to the Oval Office with a speech before the Houston Ministerial Association the previous September 12, in […]
by bcadmin | May 8, 2020 | Art & Culture, atherine de Hueck Dougherty, Bing Crosby, Catholic Worker, distributism, Eugene McCarthy, Featured, John Courtney Murray, News, Pope Leo XIII, Pope Pius XI, Robert Lowell, Weekly Headlines | 0 |
Memory is a tricky thing, and historical memory can be trickier. For example, to many Catholic Americans, the 1950s look like a golden age of innocence, when life—especially church life—looked like a series of Norman Rockwell and Harold Anderson illustrations. As with all such reminiscences, it is not entirely inaccurate. Certainly America’s Catholics benefited alongside […]
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