Culture

A Dance Without Music: Finding Purpose in Liberty

by Antonio Sosa June 29, 2012

One of the funniest and most insightful scenes in the film Amadeus takes place when Emperor Joseph II puzzles over the rehearsal of a wedding scene from Mozart’s new opera, Le nozze di Figaro. In an attempt to hinder Mozart’s…

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A “Catholic Sensibility”

by Russell Shaw June 29, 2012

Does George W. Bush have a “Catholic sensibility”? Tim Goeglein thinks so, and he’s better situated than most people to know. For seven-and-a-half years Goeglein was deputy director of the public liaison office of the Bush White House, with frequent…

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The Teen Porn Epidemic…and what to do about it

by Matt Fradd June 7, 2012

When Nathan started using internet pornography, he found that over time it somehow got less and less exciting. His daily routine soon included hours spent consuming porn, yet he had grown “almost numb to it,” he recalls. Like many men…

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A Modesty Blueprint

by Paul Kokoski May 29, 2012

Long-standing rules on modest dress, previously applicable to St. Peter’s Basilica, were recently extended throughout Vatican City. For reasons of respect Swiss Guard officers have started banning members of the public from entering the city who wear “inappropriate” clothing. This…

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How the Poles Saved Civilization

by M. D. Aeschliman May 29, 2012

On a June evening in 1979 I was having a drink on a small balcony outside a sixth-floor apartment in downtown Warsaw with a very civilized, elderly Polish intellectual, a retired mathematics professor who had taken a degree at Cambridge…

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Hear the Word

by Fr. George W. Rutler May 24, 2012

It can be disconcerting to watch the ranks of people walking along the city streets with wires in their ears, oblivious to the lives being lived around them, and tuning in only to what they choose to hear.  It is…

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Too Much Information, Too Little Thought

by Carolyn Moynihan May 22, 2012

World Telecommunication and Information Society Day is an anniversary whose purpose is, to quote the United Nations body responsible for it, “to help raise awareness of the possibilities that the use of the Internet and other information and communication technologies…

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Evolution and Morality

by W. Ross Blackburn May 9, 2012

“A man who has no assured and ever present belief in the existence of a personal God or of a future existence with retribution and reward, can have for his rule of life, as far as I can see, only…

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Is Patrick Buchanan Right?

by Russell Shaw May 4, 2012

I was nearing the close of Pat Buchanan’s new book Suicide of a Superpower (St. Martin’s Press) when I read that MSNBC had fired him as a political commentator for expressing views offensive to political correctness as practiced at that…

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The Emergence of Turkey

by George Friedman April 24, 2012

Turkey is re-emerging as a significant regional power. In some sense, it is in the process of returning to its position prior to World War I when it was the seat of the Ottoman Empire. But while the Ottoman parallel…

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