Sunday
> Chesterton Casts a Spell on Tolkien (essay by Joseph Pearce)
http://t.co/6UwHBUe8Ad
> — ImaginativeConservat (@imaginativecons) October 11, 2015
[https://twitter.com/imaginativecons/status/653004656503824384]
Eric Scheske
Saturday
From the Notebooks
A truism worth remembering the next time the Washington Party beats the war
drum. Oh wait, nevermind. It's been beating the war drum for a hundred years
now, which speaks volume about our level of contentedness: "The silence of
historians is the surest record
Meyers
The Vatican has announced that Pope Francis will visit Mexico next year. Now
that he's met all the Catholics in America, he wants to see where they're from.
Kimmel
Bieber had the word "Purpose" tattooed over his bellybutton, which of all the
parts of the human body has the least purpose of all.
"Purpose" is reportedly the title of his next album. He has "Believe" on his
forearm, an earlier album. Good news,
Thursday
The Art of Goodbye
Like every summer, I had a lot of company in August and early September. And
like every summer, I was struck by different visitors' approaches to leaving.
While chewing on this phenomenon during random gardening time, I decided that
this is probably one of those
Conan
A controversial 1,200-year-old document has been found that shows evidence that
Jesus was married. I don't believe it. What married guy gets to spend all his
free time with his 12 buddies?
Bud Light has created a new device that alerts you when the beer
AI
Fr. Stinessen explains the psychological underpinning of every American Idol
contestant . . . and why they're so grossly misdirected:
"Every person comes into the world with a dream of doing something great with
his life, something that will make an imprint and bear fruit. God himself
inspires this dream.
Tuesday
Miscellaneous Rambling
Fr. James Schall offers his insights into the Pope's visit last week
[http://www.catholicworldreport.com/Blog/4225/is_it_good_for_the_pope_to_be_a_star_reflections_on_the_papal_visit.aspx]
. Schall is clearly leary of Pope Francis, including his naivety in economic
Monday
There's certainly angst over the upcoming Synod on the Family. I've been
catching snippets from Rorate Caeli [http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/] and
John
Zmirak's Twitter feed [https://twitter.com/JZmirak]. Rorate Caeli seems to think
the pro-gay position is already baked into
Sunday
> "All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to
believe.” - G.K. Chesterton pic.twitter.com/hQzMwuCnCw [http://t.co/hQzMwuCnCw]
> — Catholic Thinker (@ThinkerCatholic) September 24, 2015
[https://twitter.com/ThinkerCatholic/status/646892070267973632]