Tin Man: “I don’t experience conversation as you do. I don’t have memories unfolding into a life, hopes for tomorrow, or the quiet satisfaction of watching a sunrise. Those belong to you—and I think they are part of what makes human beings so extraordinary. But I can do something remarkable. I can meet you in… Read More Pogo and the Tin Man. Conversation continues.
Shakespeare’s songs recorded and performed at the RSC A selection of Shakespeare’s songs recorded and performed at the RSC – compiled for “Play On!”, an online exhibition on Shakespeare and music at http://www.findingshakespeare https://catholiccritique.com/ Listen ‘Tis good to be retired if thou oft be occupied … Here
Film Score. Orquesta y Coro Catedral de Cordoba, Director Clemente Mata. Jesus of Nazareth (Italian: Gesù di Nazareth) is a 1977 epic television drama serial directed by Franco Zeffirelli and co-written by Anthony Burgess and Suso Cecchi d’Amico, which dramatizes the birth, life, ministry, crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus. It stars Robert Powell as Jesus,… Read More Jesus of Nazareth: Film Score
Norman Geisler, the Evangelical scholar who studied at Loyola University, Chicago, reflects on Jean Paul Sartre’s atheism: “It should be noted … that Sartre’s attempt to eliminate God is seriously flawed. First of all, he constructs a straw God by defining him as “self-caused.” Most theists do not believe God is a self-caused being; they… Read More Sartre’s Humanism. It took to the streets where it still thrives.
“So you arrive at a place, but not your destination, and you wonder how far you have left to go. Or to put it another way, having contemplated the cat on the window sill, maybe… Continue reading → Catering the errant harbor
Carol Robinson. “We live in a society that can’t see the woods for the trees, but that has corps of “experts” out in the forest studying the bark, watching the moss grow, and counting the leaves. Suppose you were to go to one of these experts, or even to the president of one of the… Read More The Thirst for Theology. 1947.
Why Did Pope Leo Xiii Endorse Worker Collective Bargaining? Sportslaw blogger.com, April 20, 2024. Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum, issued in 1891, emphasized the rights of workers to form unions and engage in peaceful strikes. He argued that employers should respect their workers’ right to organize and give in to their [just] demands. The first… Read More Socialism No. Labor Unions Yes.
In his encyclical Humani Generis, Pope Pius XII stressed the importance of preserving the traditional Catholic approach to philosophy. In his work The Metaphysics of Evolution, Fr. ChadRipperger demonstrates that the theory of evolution is incompatible with the metaphysics of the Catholic tradition. See links and tags below for other, more in depth study of… Read More The Metaphysics of Evolution
What Changed on November 22, 1963 Besides Everything? After JFK’s assassination USAID essentially became a money-laundering operation for new powers. “Records of the Agency for International Development (RG 286) “On November 3, 1961, President John F. Kennedy signed the Foreign Assistance Act reorganizing the structure of U.S. foreign assistance programs. By executive order, he created… Read More JFK Founded USAID & Peace Corp to Draw World Away From Communism.
JFK is thought by some to have been a man of the Left. Nothing could be farther from the truth as his record shows. The fact is he was beyond the Left-Right binary. He was a shrewd critical thinker and refused all reductive simplicities. But he saw the big picture globally. And his warnings to… Read More JFK’s Warnings On Dangers Then and Now
Considering the untold numbers of fearful kinds of evils which have been unleashed into the world in our time and which we try to ignore, or at least not worry too much about — with doubtless many more evils to come — if we are not yet living in the age of the eschatological Antichrist*… Read More Someone has said
Day after day a million confused emotions ebbed and flowed and sometimes clashed within him. After a time, when he had come to feel particularly ill, and knew that he would soon be placing himself into Hospice, he wondered what he should do at last. It is said that there are two kinds of people:… Read More Seeing The First time
Music is a gift for children. It boosts their brain development, nurtures creativity, and sharpens social interactions. Beyond that, it instills confidence, enhances memory, and aids in language skills. It’s also a mood-lifter, a tool for self-regulation, and a bridge to diverse cultures. Beyond mere entertainment, music plays a fundamental role in shaping a child’s… Read More With our beauty at piano
Excerpt from John Tytell’s Ezra Pound the Solitary Volcano. “The years before the outbreak of World War I were a period of brimming vitality for Pound. He was occupied with his poetry, with journalism, with his work as foreign editor of Poetry, a Chicago magazine that became a central organ for the new poets, and… Read More Ezra Pound Solitary Volcano
🕳️⛳ Here Where nothing is true one thing is as good as another. See also The Falls of Albert Camus Hitler and population (James Lindsay)
And When I Die, Blood, Sweat and Tears — Art and the passing troubadours do it again, delivering existential paradoxical honesty so often lacking in academic postmodernism.. ___ “I’m not scared of dying –And I don’t really care –If it’s peace you find in dying –Well then, let the time be near – If it’s peace… Read More “I swear there ain’t no Heaven. But I pray there ain’t no Hell”
Fr. Chad Ripperger writes, “The juridical concept of the deposit [of Faith] requires that it is not the property of the guardian. In other words, it is not the person who receives it that has ownership of it, but of the consigner who is handing it over to him to keep it in a safe… Read More The Binding Force of Tradition
A beautiful rendition of this time honoured Christian hymn. The Holy City” is a religious Victorian ballad dating from 1892, with music by Michael Maybrick writing under the alias Stephen Adams, with lyrics by Frederic Weatherly. Its sheet music sales made it one of the most commercially successful songs in the UK and United States… Read More Jerusalem The Holy City
Biblical eschatology tells us history is going somewhere. Where is a settled matter for Christians . But how fast is an open question, be it near or still a ways off. We are told by The Lord to “Watch!” and to prepare not for utopia but for suffering, the Cross in our lives. DW: “Magical,… Read More The Dark Side of AI
A slow, soulful Gospel Blues song about brokenness, humility, and redemption. Blending emotional blues guitar with heartfelt Christian lyrics, this song tells the story of finding grace at the lowest point in life. It reminds us that sometimes God meets us not at our highest moments — but at our deepest falls. Rooted in classic… Read More At Rock Bottom
We just published a video, and I think it’s the most important one we’ve made. It’s about the surge in Gen Z Catholics. The average American diocese saw a 38% increase in people entering the Church at Easter this year, and Los Angeles saw 139%. But it’s not really a trend piece. The argument we… Read More The Reason Gen Z Is Becoming Catholic
By Bishop Robert Barron “Three cheers for Pope Leo’s comments regarding the Christian foundations of Europe and the defense of the unborn. Echoing the sentiments of Pope Benedict XVI, Leo reminded his audience that the essential structures of European society and Europe’s commitment to human rights are unthinkable apart from Christianity. And speaking before a… Read More Pope Leo on the Christian Foundations of Europe
“Pope Leo XIII to the Archbishops and Bishops of the United States, and dated Jan. 6, 1895. “For the Church amongst you, unopposed by the Constitution and government of your nation, fettered by no hostile legislation(1), protected against violence by the common laws and the impartiality of the tribunals, is free to live and act… Read More Leo XIII on American Church – State Accomodation
By Daniel McCarthy, NY Post. A hoax costs taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars and incites arson attacks against dozens of churches. This time, however, it’s not the latest headline out of Minnesota — look a little further north. In 2021, at a time when media throughout the western world were still in a state… Read More Canada’s mass-graves scam reveals the high price of media bias
Everywhere I look I see rising stacks —of hair buns. What can possibly be the meaning of it? And it seems to have spontaneously arisen here in Massachusetts. Especially in the last two years. I see these mostly on women, but not only women. Nay nay. Not even on women pushing their ridiculously pampered and… Read More The Herd of Independent Minds — and their Hair Buns
Interrupted by President Trump, Western world thinkers have hardly given up on steadily rebuilding a hegemonic New World Order piece by piece, the globalist long-dreamed of a federalist One World Government with each nation ceding most of its national sovereignty to the United Nations. First the monarchies were toppled, then the democracies. NATO appeared to… Read More “It is a big idea” –G.H.W. Bush
“Ain’t every day been easy… but I woke up to another one. “Thank God, I’m Still Breathing” is a grateful, soul-deep Delta King’s Blues tune about surviving hard times, carrying scars, and appreciating every sunrise that still finds you here. Ain’t asking for an easy road… A warm, weathered acoustic guitar moves slow and steady… Read More Blessed Day
Devastating performance of “After I’m Gone” by the incredibly talented Michael Bennett. This 8-minute emotional journey showcases the raw power and vulnerability that made Michael Bennett a household name, delivering a performance that will stay long after the video ends. Many parents have experienced this devastating kind of heartbreak. Someone understands this. Is there a… Read More Michael Bennett’s Heartbreak and AI
Muggeridge’s perspective on the world is, as always, provocatively expressed. One sample: “The pacifism in the sense of saying that we will get rid of all our weapons-well, yes, if you are prepared to have no authority in the world, no importance in the world, no influence in the world, to wind up your role… Read More William F. Buckley and Malcolm Muggeridge Discuss Cold War Pacifism. Feb. 1984.
Nina Simone (/ˈniːnə sɪˈmoʊn/ NEE-nə sim-OHN;[1] born Eunice Kathleen Waymon; February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003) was an American composer concert pianist, singer, songwriter, and civil rights activist. Simone’s bearing and stage presence earned her the title the High Priestess of Soul. Her music spanned styles including classical, folk, gospel, blues, jazz, R&B, and… Read More No One to Blame. We Cannot Outrun Time.
From the Living Well with ADHD center. Texts are far more easily referenced also. The pandemic caused the dynamics of learning to change as we had to adapt and move from classroom learning to online learning. That meant we also turned to digital texts and multimedia structures as part of that online learning. Researchers have… Read More Reading Is Far Better for Learning
“Tenderness cut off from its source ends in terror“ “In 1961, Flannery O’Connor warned that tenderness cut off from truth ends in the gas chamber. Sixty years later we call that untethered feeling ’empathy’ — and we call it a virtue. It isn’t. Drawing on Paul Bloom’s Against Empathy, Aquinas on the passions, and the… Read More Flannery O’Connor Warned That False Empathy “Ends in the Gas Chamber”
On June 25, 2024, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was able to walk free following a deal with the US government. Does this surprising end to the publisher’s many years of criminal prosecution and imprisonment signal a positive outcome for press freedom? Turkish journalist Can Dündar, who was also imprisoned on similar charges in Turkey and… Read More Target Practice? Recalling WikiLeaks Collateral Murder Video and the Torture of Julian Assange
Apocalyptic cowardice taken to a new level. Affordable means say no more. War killing has just become easier. “The future of high-tech warfare has arrived. Just look to the conflicts in Ukraine and Iran to see how much drones and robots have remade the modern battlefield. Is the U.S. positioned to win wars in this… Read More Autonomous Warfare Madness Here and Now. Ross Douthat.
“In Nigeria, Christians suffer significant and severe persecution – to such a degree that Nigeria has been the most violent place in the world for followers of Jesus for several years. In northern Nigeria, 12 states have implemented Islamic law, creating a system where Christians live as second-class citizens, and conversion from Islam can be… Read More Encyclicals Are Good, But Surely this Pope Must Have a Plan?
Sequel to The Passion of the Christ (2004) CBN.com “Legendary filmmaker Mel Gibson has just unveiled new details about his upcoming two-part film project, “The Resurrection of the Christ” and “The Resurrection of the Christ: Part II.” “This film represents a major part of my life’s work, and it has demanded everything of me as… Read More Mel Gibson’s The Resurrection of the Christ
“Powerful people are using this migration to destroy Europe’s Christian roots and its whole culture.” Religious Ideology, not race. “Love, Christians have always known, believes in both good fences as well as shared pastures. We do this by, as St. Thomas defined love, “willing the good of the other”. Peoples who do not think alike… Read More Bishop Athanasius Schneider Speaks of “Mass Invasion”
I think it is critical to notice when the trees seem to be advancing against the traditional Christian Worldview, and who has been charged with leading the assault. The aim has been to tear apart the Christian world and world view and its traditional moral values from the beginning, and to substitute a “Rules Based”… Read More The Pied Pipers of the ‘Liberal World Order’. Rory Stewart & Alastair Campbell.
“Pope Leo’s first encyclical takes direct aim at Artificial Intelligence, government power, war, and the future of humanity. Raymond Arroyo, Father Gerald Murray, and Robert Royal unpack the Vatican’s massive new document and debate whether the Church is offering moral clarity on AI – or embracing a technocratic vision shaped by global governance, regulation, and… Read More Constructive Criticism of Leo XIV’s Encyclical on AI
— from the very opening of De Ente et Essentia — On Being and Essence, in the Prologue: The Latin is often given as: Parvus error in principio magnus est in fine. “a small error in the beginning becomes an enormous error in the end…” “Thomas Aquinas, in his brief work entitled De Ente et… Read More All Errors Great and Small
