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Media Distortion of the Week

April 7, 2010

I want to be careful here because I do understand there is a scandal of terrible proportions being played out in the  Catholic church and there is some truth in what Peggy Noonan says:  the media actually help the church by exposing what needs exposing.  But Maureen Dowd is simply out of line to declare [...]

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God-Shaped Hole

March 29, 2010

As they did in the beginning, Passover and Holy Week coincide this year, and yet not one major film being released for the season has anything whatsoever to do with religion. Nowhere is popular entertainment more bizarrely alienated from the lives of ordinary people than in the matter of God. Why should this [...]

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God Is Mocked. Not.

February 1, 2010

I went to see Brit comedian Eddie Izzard perform live this weekend.  He was hilarious; great.  He did one bit illustrating the idea that Latin became a dead language because it was just too complicated.  A Roman legionnaire comes running to tell a centurion that Hannibal and his elephants have crossed the Alps but he [...]

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Galileo Goes to Jail

January 30, 2010

I’m disconcerted to find that January’s not even over and I’ve already burned through most of my Christmas books.  Haven’t hit upon anything great so far, but this one – Galileo Goes to Jail – was kind of cool.  It’s from the Harvard University Press, a series of essays by scholars ranging from atheist to [...]

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