Shelby Steele in today's WSJ:
'But then Mr. Obama always knew that his greatest appeal was not as a leader but as a cultural symbol.'
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
What about heroic love?
I don't have time to write the post I'd like, but the tragedy of modern society is usually on my mind, in this case, the lack of opportunity for young Americans to practice heroic love.
We live in a culture built on delaying marriage and family five to twenty years beyond puberty in order to serve the industrial state and information economy with experienced specialists. Of course, delaying marriage a full decade beyond the onset of puberty is completely unnatural, so we have substituted contraception and frequent sex for marriage, covenantal love, and babies. Couples who do what comes naturally and marry in their teens are looked upon as burdens to society and their families. Their marriages are assumed to be failures in the making.
But what percentage of our population is capable of living a virtuous life without marriage for the decade or more beyond puberty required to complete graduate degrees and take on advanced training for a technological economy?
Thus, should we be surprised that school sports are among the few opportunities to practice heroic virtues that we offer our teenagers? A teenager is not allowed to bag groceries at Kroger until he is 16. Missionary orders in America won't let you volunteer until you are 18.
Should we be surprised that girls get pregnant and decide to keep the baby? Having a baby, even if conceived in a flash of passion, is often better than the boredom of deferred gratification of gaining some sort of certification for specialized employment. The reality is that boredom is all we offer many of our young people.
Should we be surprised that many boys (and girls) cannot wait to turn 17 and obtain parental permission to join the armed forces?
I am not regretting my own life choices: two grad degrees, marriage after 30, etc. I must say that I was lonely and tempted much of the time before I married. I love to read, study, write, and teach, and thus was able to obtain advanced degrees.
Nonetheless, I fear for my country and our culture if we do not nurture family structure any better than we do. We need to support morally and structurally the vast majority of young people who don't want their adolescence prolonged for more than a decade and would prefer to pursue their vocations while they are married and having families. "Friends with benefits" is not a social structure, but rather, a sociological and moral train wreck.
Michael Barone's Hard America, Soft America: Competition vs. Coddling and the Battle for the Nation's Future notes that America produces incompetent 18 year olds and remarkably competent 30 year olds. The price of postponing any sort of risk for our young people as long as possible is greater than we want to admit.
We live in a culture built on delaying marriage and family five to twenty years beyond puberty in order to serve the industrial state and information economy with experienced specialists. Of course, delaying marriage a full decade beyond the onset of puberty is completely unnatural, so we have substituted contraception and frequent sex for marriage, covenantal love, and babies. Couples who do what comes naturally and marry in their teens are looked upon as burdens to society and their families. Their marriages are assumed to be failures in the making.
But what percentage of our population is capable of living a virtuous life without marriage for the decade or more beyond puberty required to complete graduate degrees and take on advanced training for a technological economy?
Thus, should we be surprised that school sports are among the few opportunities to practice heroic virtues that we offer our teenagers? A teenager is not allowed to bag groceries at Kroger until he is 16. Missionary orders in America won't let you volunteer until you are 18.
Should we be surprised that girls get pregnant and decide to keep the baby? Having a baby, even if conceived in a flash of passion, is often better than the boredom of deferred gratification of gaining some sort of certification for specialized employment. The reality is that boredom is all we offer many of our young people.
Should we be surprised that many boys (and girls) cannot wait to turn 17 and obtain parental permission to join the armed forces?
I am not regretting my own life choices: two grad degrees, marriage after 30, etc. I must say that I was lonely and tempted much of the time before I married. I love to read, study, write, and teach, and thus was able to obtain advanced degrees.
Nonetheless, I fear for my country and our culture if we do not nurture family structure any better than we do. We need to support morally and structurally the vast majority of young people who don't want their adolescence prolonged for more than a decade and would prefer to pursue their vocations while they are married and having families. "Friends with benefits" is not a social structure, but rather, a sociological and moral train wreck.
Michael Barone's Hard America, Soft America: Competition vs. Coddling and the Battle for the Nation's Future notes that America produces incompetent 18 year olds and remarkably competent 30 year olds. The price of postponing any sort of risk for our young people as long as possible is greater than we want to admit.
Corruption and decay within our ruling classes...
The Anchoress discusses a 2005 column by Peggy Noonan about how poor and weak our ruling elites are.
Ms. Noonan has an interesting perspective in that she grew up the granddaughter of Irish immigrants in New York City, worked for CBS, switched parties, worked in the Reagan White House as a speechwriter, and now writes for The Wall Street Journal. Thus, she is an outsider looking in, even when she is rubbing elbows with the powerful.
Because it is my cautious habit not to ascribe to malice what can be attributed to incompetence (though hubris can swell into something closely kin to malice), I tend to agree with Ms. Noonan's 2005 assessment rather than the Anchoress' interpretation. I must say, nonetheless, that our many of our current rulers set out to be nullify many if not most of the ideals and values of their parents. They despised WASP privilege, for instance, but replaced it with a pseudo-meritocracy based upon where one went to school and the degree with which you renounce all forms of elitism as you acquire elite status. Such a ruling class might make us prefer an hereditary aristocracy that does not pretend to be anything else.
Ms. Noonan has an interesting perspective in that she grew up the granddaughter of Irish immigrants in New York City, worked for CBS, switched parties, worked in the Reagan White House as a speechwriter, and now writes for The Wall Street Journal. Thus, she is an outsider looking in, even when she is rubbing elbows with the powerful.
Because it is my cautious habit not to ascribe to malice what can be attributed to incompetence (though hubris can swell into something closely kin to malice), I tend to agree with Ms. Noonan's 2005 assessment rather than the Anchoress' interpretation. I must say, nonetheless, that our many of our current rulers set out to be nullify many if not most of the ideals and values of their parents. They despised WASP privilege, for instance, but replaced it with a pseudo-meritocracy based upon where one went to school and the degree with which you renounce all forms of elitism as you acquire elite status. Such a ruling class might make us prefer an hereditary aristocracy that does not pretend to be anything else.
“It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.”
Who could have said this other than G.K. Chesterton?
More about political corruption from The Anchoress.
More about political corruption from The Anchoress.
"Accept Defeat: The Neuroscience of Screwing Up"
I enjoy science, but I am just as interested in the sociology, psychology, and economics of scientists. Scientific specialists have become the priesthood of modern times. Like any priesthood, they can become a self-interested guild. Grant money tends to be for specific results.
Jonah Lehrer writes a nice piece on the humanity of scientists and science called "Accept Defeat: The Neuroscience of Screwing Up."
He reiterates the skepticism we should all have. The data does not always say what it is supposed to say, yet we have to separate the wheat from the chaff:
'As he tried to further understand how people deal with dissonant data, [Kevin] Dunbar [researcher of scientific researchers] conducted some experiments of his own. In one 2003 study, he had undergraduates at Dartmouth College watch a couple of short videos of two different-size balls falling. The first clip showed the two balls falling at the same rate. The second clip showed the larger ball falling at a faster rate. The footage was a reconstruction of the famous (and probably apocryphal) experiment performed by Galileo, in which he dropped cannonballs of different sizes from the Tower of Pisa. Galileo’s metal balls all landed at the exact same time — a refutation of Aristotle, who claimed that heavier objects fell faster.
'While the students were watching the footage, Dunbar asked them to select the more accurate representation of gravity. Not surprisingly, undergraduates without a physics background disagreed with Galileo. (Intuitively, we’re all Aristotelians.) They found the two balls falling at the same rate to be deeply unrealistic, despite the fact that it’s how objects actually behave. Furthermore, when Dunbar monitored the subjects in an fMRI machine, he found that showing non-physics majors the correct video triggered a particular pattern of brain activation: There was a squirt of blood to the anterior cingulate cortex, a collar of tissue located in the center of the brain. The ACC is typically associated with the perception of errors and contradictions — neuroscientists often refer to it as part of the “Oh shit!” circuit — so it makes sense that it would be turned on when we watch a video of something that seems wrong.
'So far, so obvious: Most undergrads are scientifically illiterate. But Dunbar also conducted the experiment with physics majors. As expected, their education enabled them to see the error, and for them it was the inaccurate video that triggered the ACC.
'But there’s another region of the brain that can be activated as we go about editing reality. It’s called the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, or DLPFC. It’s located just behind the forehead and is one of the last brain areas to develop in young adults. It plays a crucial role in suppressing so-called unwanted representations, getting rid of those thoughts that don’t square with our preconceptions. For scientists, it’s a problem.
'When physics students saw the Aristotelian video with the aberrant balls, their DLPFCs kicked into gear and they quickly deleted the image from their consciousness. In most contexts, this act of editing is an essential cognitive skill. (When the DLPFC is damaged, people often struggle to pay attention, since they can’t filter out irrelevant stimuli.) However, when it comes to noticing anomalies, an efficient prefrontal cortex can actually be a serious liability. The DLPFC is constantly censoring the world, erasing facts from our experience. If the ACC is the “Oh shit!” circuit, the DLPFC is the Delete key. When the ACC and DLPFC “turn on together, people aren’t just noticing that something doesn’t look right,” Dunbar says. “They’re also inhibiting that information.”'
Hat tip: Glenn Reynolds
Mozart and Figaro
I am not qualified to write on opera, but Spengler discusses Mozart, The Marriage of Figaro, and the roles of Susanna and the Countess here.
'Unlike the obese and ungainly sopranos I used to hear at the Met when I was a serious opera-goer (in my late teens), the Susanna, Danielle de Niesse, was a teen talent-show hostess from Los Angeles via Melbourne. She sings perfectly well (in fact, she studied at my favorite school, the Mannes College). And she has movie-star good looks. Nonetheless I missed Mozart’s Susanna, whose character we get in whole form in the first thirty bars of the opera’s opening duet. She has just a little vanity, a little humor, a little tolerance for Figaro (who is not nearly as clever as he thinks he is) and a little impatience: she is as real and complete a woman who ever tread the stage, and we are touched by the young woman on her wedding day who has made her own hat, and is trying to get her self-important, preoccupied bridegroom to notice. Mozart can write two lines of music for two individual characters doing two quite different things (on rare occasion, even three!), which nonetheless form a scene together and an integrated piece of music.
'No entrance in opera is more daunting than that of the Countess, who must appear in a set-piece aria and break our hearts. A lovely soprano from Munich sang Rosina last night, and did very well indeed: the picture of the young matron still beautiful and still desperate to keep her husband’s love. Yet my mind goes back to the great Monserrat Caballe, who had no more stage mobility than Jabba the Hut, but acted with her voice in a far more vivid way.'
Kiri Te Kanawa and Ileana Cotrubas sing my favorite piece, "Sull'aria," here.
'Unlike the obese and ungainly sopranos I used to hear at the Met when I was a serious opera-goer (in my late teens), the Susanna, Danielle de Niesse, was a teen talent-show hostess from Los Angeles via Melbourne. She sings perfectly well (in fact, she studied at my favorite school, the Mannes College). And she has movie-star good looks. Nonetheless I missed Mozart’s Susanna, whose character we get in whole form in the first thirty bars of the opera’s opening duet. She has just a little vanity, a little humor, a little tolerance for Figaro (who is not nearly as clever as he thinks he is) and a little impatience: she is as real and complete a woman who ever tread the stage, and we are touched by the young woman on her wedding day who has made her own hat, and is trying to get her self-important, preoccupied bridegroom to notice. Mozart can write two lines of music for two individual characters doing two quite different things (on rare occasion, even three!), which nonetheless form a scene together and an integrated piece of music.
'No entrance in opera is more daunting than that of the Countess, who must appear in a set-piece aria and break our hearts. A lovely soprano from Munich sang Rosina last night, and did very well indeed: the picture of the young matron still beautiful and still desperate to keep her husband’s love. Yet my mind goes back to the great Monserrat Caballe, who had no more stage mobility than Jabba the Hut, but acted with her voice in a far more vivid way.'
Kiri Te Kanawa and Ileana Cotrubas sing my favorite piece, "Sull'aria," here.
"The Tragedy of Pius XII"
If a bloodthirsty totalitarian regime took over your country and surrounding countries and you were a bishop, would you:
(a) vocally protest the new regime in order to set an example and dare the evil ones to make you a martyr?
or
(b) keep your mouth shut because of the censored press and work quietly with your priests, deacons, monks, nuns, and laity to perform works of mercy and love in the worst of times?
Pope Pius XII had this choice during World War II. He chose the latter because public defiance by him of the Nazis would have resulted in arrests of thousands of priests, Gestapo raids on monasteries and rectories to arrest thousands of hidden Jews and other political targets, the loss of any independence he and other bishops had left, and the possibility of a conclave in Nazi-occupied Italy and a Nazi-selected pontiff.
For this choice, Pope Pius XII has been called "pro-German," "anti-Semitic," and a "Nazi collaborator."
Spengler, a Jew, defends Pope Pius XII in this column.
Nonetheless, Spengler concludes that Nazism arose because Orthodox Jews, Catholics, and other Christians were too few in number, sometimes blind to the threat of Fascism, and lacking the moral authority to head off the coming of aggressive nihilism. Worse yet, the Nazis (and for that matter the Communists) were so cynical as to kill and torture millions as to make the Judeo-Christian idea of human dignity seem a nullity if not a falsehood. It is going to take millions of little acts of mercy for the world to recover from the totalitarianisms of the 20th century.
Sunday, December 27, 2009
My best Christmas present...
Splendors of the Magnificat.
It contains great art, a CD, and essays about art and music.
More about Sandro Botticelli's Madonna of the Magnificat here.
The Visitation has inspired great art in twenty-one centuries, and I am enjoying a well-presented sample.
Thursday, December 24, 2009
A Christmas Prayer
On that holy night,
Somehow
It happened.
Somehow,
God took a handful of humanity:
Proud, petulant, passionate;
And a handful of divinity:
Undivided, inexpressible, incomprehensible:
And enclosed them in one small body.
Somehow, the all too human
Touched the divine.
And was not vaporized.
To be human was never the same,
But forever thereafter,
Carried a hint of its close encounter with the perfect.
and forever thereafter,
God was never the same,
But carried a hint of the passion of the mortal.
If God can lie down in a cattle-trough,
is any object safe from transformation?
If peasant girls can be mothers to God,
Is any life safe from the invasion of the eternal?
If all this could happen, O God,
What places of darkness on our earth
are pregnant with light waiting to be born this night?
If all this could happen, O God,
Then you could be, and are, anywhere, everywhere,
Waiting to be born this night in the most
unbelievable places,
Perhaps even in our own hearts. Amen.
“A Christmas Prayer” by Ian Oliver
Somehow
It happened.
Somehow,
God took a handful of humanity:
Proud, petulant, passionate;
And a handful of divinity:
Undivided, inexpressible, incomprehensible:
And enclosed them in one small body.
Somehow, the all too human
Touched the divine.
And was not vaporized.
To be human was never the same,
But forever thereafter,
Carried a hint of its close encounter with the perfect.
and forever thereafter,
God was never the same,
But carried a hint of the passion of the mortal.
If God can lie down in a cattle-trough,
is any object safe from transformation?
If peasant girls can be mothers to God,
Is any life safe from the invasion of the eternal?
If all this could happen, O God,
What places of darkness on our earth
are pregnant with light waiting to be born this night?
If all this could happen, O God,
Then you could be, and are, anywhere, everywhere,
Waiting to be born this night in the most
unbelievable places,
Perhaps even in our own hearts. Amen.
“A Christmas Prayer” by Ian Oliver
pastor of the University Church, Yale University
More about the image here, Bartolo di Fredi's Adoration of the Shepherds.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Losing liberty in the name of human rights
I am a Burkean and a Kirkite. I would despair if the French Revolution, with its emphasis on abstract rights enforced by coercive central government, somehow swallowed and nullified the American Revolution with its emphasis on personal liberty through limited government.
For this reason, I suspect just about anyone claiming to protect "human rights." Intentions can be good, but liberties which are not indigenous, chartered, and traditional to a people cannot be baked into the polity through the leaven of entitlements and dough of paper constitutions.
Britain's Labour Party has always loved the French Revolution more than it should. If the British try to bring back 1789 instead of 1688, they won't keep their liberties.
For this reason, I suspect just about anyone claiming to protect "human rights." Intentions can be good, but liberties which are not indigenous, chartered, and traditional to a people cannot be baked into the polity through the leaven of entitlements and dough of paper constitutions.
Britain's Labour Party has always loved the French Revolution more than it should. If the British try to bring back 1789 instead of 1688, they won't keep their liberties.
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Liam Clancy (1935-2009), Requiescat in pace.
Irish television clip here.
Interview here.
Info about a film here.
He died earlier this month. I've been so busy that I didn't notice until today when I searched for one of his songs on YouTube.
This is the song my daughter likes. My favorite is "When the Ship Comes In".
[Photo above of Tommy Makem and Liam Clancy.]
Plants are alive in ways you didn't know...
The article is called "Sorry, Vegans: Brussels Sprouts Like to Live, Too." It is in the NYT and written by Natalie Angier.
Enjoy.
Hat tip: Ann Althouse.
Enjoy.
Hat tip: Ann Althouse.
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Beethoven's birthday...
An interesting post by Pentimento:
'He is the kind of man that history would scorn, except for the fact that he wrote music that is more than music; it is, to paraphrase the Schiller text that he set in his Ninth Symphony, a spark from heaven that illuminates the soul of man.'
'He is the kind of man that history would scorn, except for the fact that he wrote music that is more than music; it is, to paraphrase the Schiller text that he set in his Ninth Symphony, a spark from heaven that illuminates the soul of man.'
Kyle Cupp on Obama's speech on Afghanistan
I respect Kyle's views. I myself view our country as the protector of the weak more often than not. I could be dead wrong, but countries such as Vietnam fall into worse despotism when we leave than when we stay. S. Korea, for instance, is a country we did not really want to defend, but our bullheaded defense of it resulted in 60 million people today being spared from a fusion of Stalinism and Maoism. Nonetheless, my defense of the use of American power certainly qualifies me for the label of "imperialist" in some circles.
I tend to vote for the party which wants to stick out a war rather than abandon allies and victories bought with the blood of our young servicemen. Whether we like it or not, we are a superpower, and the world depends on us to defend freedom from tyranny, jihadism, fascism, communism, anarchism, etc.
As a reader of Thucydides, I am fully aware that perpetual warfare undermines the freedom and values we hold dear. Russell Kirk, a Midwesterner far more sympathetic to the views of isolationists than I, wrote a collection of essays called The Politics of Prudence, which I highly recommend. We Americans can disagree on any particular policy, but there generally is no perfect solution or ideological map for a superpower that wants to remain strong and free, only the prudent expenditure of moral and financial capital and the nurturing of human virtue and cultural health.
When I meet my Maker, I know I am going to have to defend my votes, views, actions, and posts. As G.K. Chesterton said, when we vote, we take responsibility for every deployment of troops and every execution of any criminal. We cannot pass the buck. I won't ever say, "My country, right or wrong," but I must say that I believe our strength has usually been for the good of freedom and the defense of liberty.
Civil disobedience might become necessary...
If the abortion lobby gets what it wants, we might wake up in a few months and find ourselves mandated to purchase private insurance that guarantees coverage of abortions.
Jay Anderson writes about it.
The new "reforms," whatever they are, will need careful study. I think there is a critical mass in the U.S. population that would go to jail rather than fund abortions.
Jay Anderson writes about it.
The new "reforms," whatever they are, will need careful study. I think there is a critical mass in the U.S. population that would go to jail rather than fund abortions.
Looking for an Anglo-Catholic forum?
This website, "The Anglo-Catholic," is young but vibrant.
There is tremendous interest in both joining traditional Anglicans to the Holy See and renewing the Catholic faith through the power of traditional Anglican liturgies. Having grown up with the 1928 Book of Common Prayer, I believe that Anglican forms and liturgies, if integrated with Roman Catholicism in English-speaking countries, could do more to renew Catholic worship and piety than just about anything else.
There is tremendous interest in both joining traditional Anglicans to the Holy See and renewing the Catholic faith through the power of traditional Anglican liturgies. Having grown up with the 1928 Book of Common Prayer, I believe that Anglican forms and liturgies, if integrated with Roman Catholicism in English-speaking countries, could do more to renew Catholic worship and piety than just about anything else.
Friday, December 18, 2009
"The Adam Lambert Problem"
I would not know Adam Lambert if he knocked on my door, but apparently he did something lewd during the American Music Awards, something I would not want to see myself, much less let my daughter see.
Peggy Noonan fears this sort of thing has become characteristic of our culture:
'Mr. Lambert's act left viewers feeling not just offended but assaulted. Again, "we don't care what you do in New York," but don't include us in it, don't bring it into our homes. Our children are here.
'I don't mean to make too much of it. In the great scheme of things a creepy musical act doesn't matter much. But increasingly people feel at the mercy of the Adam Lamberts, who of course view themselves, when criticized, as victims of prudery and closed-mindedness. America is not prudish or closed-minded, it is exhausted. It cannot be exaggerated, how much Americans feel besieged by the culture of their own country, and to what lengths they have to go to protect their children from it.
'It's things like this, every bit as much as taxes and spending, that leave people feeling jarred and dismayed, and worried about the future of their country.'
How do you turn on a television if you care not to see or hear about anyone's sexual liberation or adventure? We have cut off our Dish Network. I'll miss the Rose Parade and the Crimson Tide's biggest game in seventeen years, but I give them up gladly.
Peggy Noonan fears this sort of thing has become characteristic of our culture:
'Mr. Lambert's act left viewers feeling not just offended but assaulted. Again, "we don't care what you do in New York," but don't include us in it, don't bring it into our homes. Our children are here.
'I don't mean to make too much of it. In the great scheme of things a creepy musical act doesn't matter much. But increasingly people feel at the mercy of the Adam Lamberts, who of course view themselves, when criticized, as victims of prudery and closed-mindedness. America is not prudish or closed-minded, it is exhausted. It cannot be exaggerated, how much Americans feel besieged by the culture of their own country, and to what lengths they have to go to protect their children from it.
'It's things like this, every bit as much as taxes and spending, that leave people feeling jarred and dismayed, and worried about the future of their country.'
How do you turn on a television if you care not to see or hear about anyone's sexual liberation or adventure? We have cut off our Dish Network. I'll miss the Rose Parade and the Crimson Tide's biggest game in seventeen years, but I give them up gladly.
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Hyperinflation?
Not likely, but the government has created a lot of money to service its own debts as well as to maintain liquidity as credit bubbles burst.
Inflation is on its way unless the Federal Reserve Board raises interest rates, which it won't do because of flat investment and soaring government debt. Nonetheless, we are playing a dangerous game if we need to raise interest rates in order to attract foreign investment, bring back exported dollars, and reward thrift, yet we keep interest rates low because our own governments are addicted to spending.
Hat tip to Glenn Reynolds.
Inflation is on its way unless the Federal Reserve Board raises interest rates, which it won't do because of flat investment and soaring government debt. Nonetheless, we are playing a dangerous game if we need to raise interest rates in order to attract foreign investment, bring back exported dollars, and reward thrift, yet we keep interest rates low because our own governments are addicted to spending.
Hat tip to Glenn Reynolds.
The problem of "universal jurisdiction"
I write sporadically on international law, one of my old research areas. Today certain portions of our elites have an almost religious faith in international law as the cure to humanity's problems.
Of course, international law involves shrinking state sovereignty and granting jurisdiction to international courts over crimes and criminals that are either in someone else's jurisdiction or no jurisdiction at all. This has its pratfalls.
Stephen Bainbridge explains.
Of course, international law involves shrinking state sovereignty and granting jurisdiction to international courts over crimes and criminals that are either in someone else's jurisdiction or no jurisdiction at all. This has its pratfalls.
Stephen Bainbridge explains.
Wednesday, December 09, 2009
Tragedy
I just learned that Romina Mulloy-Bossio died in November in a tragic fire in Dallas, Texas. She and her husband rushed upstairs to save their son, and all perished. I did not know her well, but we were in law school at the same time. She lived not far from me in Nashville.
Such tragedies of classmates hit me hard, even when I am not close to the deceased. The Kansas City paper (where she attended high school) has a nice obituary. Romina was an Argentinian immigrant who obtained an fine education, a desireable clerkship, and an associate's position at one of Texas' best law firms. She was apparently an excellent neighbor and a volunteer at the local elementary school. This is a great human loss.
Requiescat in pace.
Tuesday, December 08, 2009
Friday, December 04, 2009
Obama's Afghanistan speech
Peggy Noonan compliments it overall.
Does how a Democratic president who campaigned as the voice of change admit that his predecessor was right? How does a liberal Democrat lead a nation at war without the support or even the understanding of his base?
Does how a Democratic president who campaigned as the voice of change admit that his predecessor was right? How does a liberal Democrat lead a nation at war without the support or even the understanding of his base?
Wednesday, December 02, 2009
St. Ambrose, Benedict XVI, the Anglican initiative, and the Bishop of Calgary
Great piece by Steve Kellmeyer. It is a work of homiletic art.
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