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The October issue of First Things contains a very long piece by Jody Bottum: “When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano: Catholic Culture in America.” Here’s the piece. I spent a couple of weeks mulling this piece, trying to figure out what was off about it. There’s much good in it – the central controlling…

Scottish composer James MacMillan’s article in a magazine called Open House was reported on a couple of weeks ago – but it’s taken this long for the actual article to find its way online. I’m going to pull quotes from it, but you really should go read the whole thing, bookmark it and pass it…

Cardinal Egan sends a letter: Cardinal Edward Egan, in a letter sent to the priests of New York, appears to blame the recent anonymous criticism of his leadership on dissatisfaction with his handling of sex-abuse cases involving priests. In the letter, dated Oct. 20, Egan writes that stories "told by priests who have been found…

Zenit’s posting a transcript. Part 1 is up, part 2 will be up early this evening, I’d imagine. More Dawkins from the past week or so: Stephen Barr at First Things: As one moves deeper into nature—to levels about which the natural historian and zoologist can tell us nothing—one encounters not less and less form…
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