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Cunning as Serpents?: April 2008

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Catholics of the World Unite! No, this is not going go be a blog promoting liberation theology, or holding hands at Mass, or increased education in Latin. This blog is for you, my fellow Catholics who have a desire to do the right thing, and are vaguely aware of some sort of culture war. Again, No! I don't mean between East and West, or between Christianity and Islam, I mean within our. At well, you know, them. The "them" that's opposed to "us". And you want to spread the Truth. Some readers may be anecd...

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Guard of the Guardians: General James Jones Steps Down

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Guard of the Guardians. October 8, 2010. General James Jones Steps Down. The choice for an Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (APNSA aka "National Security Advisor") usually indicates something very important about what the president wants. Obama picked Jones because initially Obama had no military experience. He needed a strong, military figure there, especially during these wars. But strong presidents don't generally feel like. Now we have an experienced 4-star general leaving, an...

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Green Persephone: the vocation

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You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion. The peace that comes from finding ones vocation (or at the least, when one finds the grace of discernment of a vocation) is like having a sword, dull and wooden as the Cross, plunged into your heart, where it is anchored into the Heart of Jesus. It is in this way that vocation brings peace, for it is anchored firmly in love, the security and safety of being in love. Saturday, February 05, 2011. View my complete profile.

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Green Persephone: Quirks in this here Italian life

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You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion. Quirks in this here Italian life. I live in a little hobbit hole, and like many hobbit holes, internet access is sporadic at best, if one is lucky enough to have it available at all. Therefore, when my need for internet arises, I am obliged to a tiny little hotspot across the street, thanks to the unprotected network of the small community of nuns who live there. I mean, on the sidewalk. Perhaps it is that Italy, with such ...

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Green Persephone: The life of Job

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You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion. The life of Job. God does not desire suffering on this earth that we may obtain happiness in the next. He allows suffering to help us see, but He does not desire to see us suffer, and would have us suffer as little as possible. God does not redeem us through the evils of the world. He redeems us in spite of them. Friday, September 25, 2009. Świetny tekst, dobrze i mądrze napisany. Dziękuje! February 27, 2010 5:53 AM.

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Green Persephone: August 2007

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You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion. My break from the blog. And since I don't ever want to become one of those bloggers who honestly believe that someone will care that their latest epiphany about the true meaning of the universe comes from the geometric shape they found in a defective cheerio, I will stop talking about myself, and try to scrounge up something interesting to be opinionated about. Sunday, August 19, 2007. Links to this post. A Mouse in My Bed.

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Green Persephone: Pre-Lenten Reflections: Preparing for the Mercy of God

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You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion. Pre-Lenten Reflections: Preparing for the Mercy of God. Any excuse to begin an article with a quote from Miss O'Connor . . . Flannery O'Connor, "The Artificial Nigger". Why are we, at times, inclined to dwell on our past transgressions? What do our weaknesses matter when we know that, each and every sin of our past and future, be they are graver than all the sins in the world, will be forgiven completely, so long as we ask ...

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Cunning as Serpents?: The Poetics of Inauguration

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The Poetics of Inauguration. Here's an interesting combination of politics and art. Elizabeth Alexander is about to become only the fourth inaugural poet in American history, so Jeremy Axelrod over at Culture11 has written an analysis. Of her work as well as of the three previous inaugural poets: Robert Frost in 1961, Maya Angelou in 1993, and Miller Williams in 1997. Axelrod describes what "a truly strong inaugural poem should be":. But there is a tension between the inherent depth of poetic communicati...

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Cunning as Serpents?: Some Notes on Western Democracy

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Some Notes on Western Democracy. In the May/June 2004 edition of Foreign Affairs,. Russian expert Richard Pipes [ wiki. Wrote an article about how Russians view the world, and he had this to say about the Russian view of democracy:. Pipes makes another point that pro-democracy apologists should note:. First, note Pipes' assertion that in Western societies, freedom and order reinforce each other. How do they do this? The answer is in the very next sentence: surrendering the practice of speech and movement...

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Cunning as Serpents?: September 2009

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Some Notes on Western Democracy. In the May/June 2004 edition of Foreign Affairs,. Russian expert Richard Pipes [ wiki. Wrote an article about how Russians view the world, and he had this to say about the Russian view of democracy:. Pipes makes another point that pro-democracy apologists should note:. First, note Pipes' assertion that in Western societies, freedom and order reinforce each other. How do they do this? The answer is in the very next sentence: surrendering the practice of speech and movement...