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An Exchange with Newsday About Pope Francis
Regular readers will recall that I like to document my interactions with the press, especially the mainstream media. I do this to show the discrepancy from what they are told…
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Laudato Si: “The Curate’s Egg.” The Not So Excellent Parts. Guest Post by Bob Kurland
See the first part of this article. Every judgment of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such…
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Junk Science and Cheap Moralism on the Tiber: The Church And Global Warming
Today's post is at The Stream.org. Junk Science and Cheap Moralism on the Tiber: The Vatican's top science officer lashes out at critics, defending his alliance with abortion advocates and…
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What Went Wrong In Ireland, And What Will Go Wrong Here
What went awry in Ireland was not the result of the vote, a result which was, of course, the wrong decision. The offense was something much deeper, something basic. It…
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Are Wars And Violence Decreasing? Taleb’s New Paper Reviewed
The vale of tears I've been asked by several people to comment on Pasquale Cirillo and Nassim Nicholas Taleb's paper (thankfully, not peer-reviewed, unless you count this) "On the tail…
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Encyclical Delayed, Possibly Downgraded To Lesser Form?
The encyclical might be downgraded to some lesser form of "statement." This is the rumor as reported to me from "sources." Given the excitement the encyclical generated on the left,…
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The Pontifical Academy’s Sustainablity Conference Podcast
CLICK HERE TO GET TO THE PODCAST Arrgh. I'm trying out a new podcasting plugin. It puts the podcasts into something-which-isn't-a-post and which is impossible to find. So here is…
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This Week In Doom: A Riotously Good Time
Because this week has been especially doom-laden, we're pushing up our bulletin a full day. Indeed, conditions were so rank these past seven days that they almost qualify to be…