Tag: Culture
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Ambiguorum Blogis: The miscellaneous thoughts of Fr Michael Butler — goes live.
I always welcome the emergence of new contributions on Orthodoxy and culture by thoughtful commentators. Orthodox Christianity has much to give this country, indeed all of the Christian West, but our thinking has been underdeveloped and our contributions sparse. Much of this is due of course to historical circumstance; Orthodox Christianity is only now finding…
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Fr. Peter Preble interviews Fr. Hans Jacobse on the Mosque at Ground Zero
Fr. Peter-Michael Preble interviewed me (more of a running conversation actually) about the building of the mosque at Ground Zero after my article was published on Catholic Online. In it I discuss some of the ideas that inform the argument I made in the article. Fr. Peter blogs at Shepherd of Souls, and Fr. Peter-Michael…
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Unpublished paragraphs for the Orthodox audience
STOP THE PRESSES! HELLENIC VOICE PUBLISHED ARTICLE AFTER ALL! SEE: THE HELLENIC VOICE! Below are the paragraphs that I included in my article (Ground Zero is American Holy Ground. No Mosque Near Ground Zero) that was intended for an Orthodox audience. The Hellenic Voice, which has published everything else I submitted, apparently decided not to…
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Krauthammer: Sacrilege at Ground Zero
Source: National Review Online A place is made sacred by a widespread belief that it was visited by the miraculous or the transcendent (Lourdes, the Temple Mount), by the presence there once of great nobility and sacrifice (Gettysburg), or by the blood of martyrs and the indescribable suffering of the innocent (Auschwitz). When we speak…
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Judge Vaughn Walker, The Solomon of San Francisco
Buchanan nails it. Source: VDARE By Patrick J. Buchanan Peering at the 14th Amendment, Walker found something there the authors of the amendment never knew they put there, and even the Warren Court never found there: The states of the Union must recognize same-sex marriages as equal to traditional marriage. With his discovery, Walker declared…