Monthly Archives: June 2016

  Zack Dunlap: No Miracle, He Demonstrates the Capacity of the Body (including the brain ) to Heal… Posted: 09 Jun 2016 10:24 AM PDT LES FEMMES Steven Thorpe, declared brain dead by four doctors, recovered. And Zack’s not the … Continue reading →

Alexis de Toqueville The Principle of Subsidiarity [ Emphasis and {commentary} in red type by Abyssum ] by David A. Bosnich http://www.acton.org/pub/religion-liberty/volume-6-number-4/principle-subsidiarity One of the key principles of Catholic social thought is known as the principle of subsidiarity. This tenet … Continue reading →

THE FRACTURED REPUBLIC: by Ben Domenech, The Federalist 09 June 16 I have been reading Yuval Levin’s new book, The Fractured Republic, for an upcoming review and an interview next week. It is in many ways a discouraging read, and … Continue reading →

  Multiplicabuntur:  “In your old age I will multiply your good works” from Psalm 91.   Grundglaub:  “A basis for understanding, for faith.”   Heilige schwert:  “Take up the sword of the Spirit (which is the word of God).”  Ephesians … Continue reading →

  Alice in “Amoris Laetitia” Land The dazzling critique by an Australian scholar on the post-synodal exhortation. “We have lost all foothold, and fallen like Alice into a parallel universe, where nothing is quite what it seems to be” by … Continue reading →

Mystery vs. Mastery: Reframing the Debates in our Culture Wars by Christopher White within Bioethics, Book Reviews Jun 09, 2016 07:00 am http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2016/06/16684/   The bitterness of competing narratives in today’s culture wars can give the impression that no agreement is possible between … Continue reading →

Conservatives, Behold California – This is Your Electoral Destiny Unless You Wake Up THE INTELLECTUAL CONSERVATIVE Posted: 08 Jun 2016 10:07 AM PDT [  Emphasis and {commentary} in red type by Abyssum  ] {Wake up conservatives !!! Stop your ostrich-like … Continue reading →

  Should you need the government’s permission to work? by Jeff Jacoby The Boston Globe June 5, 2016   http://www.jeffjacoby.com/18889/should-you-need-the-government-permission-to-work IN SOME PRECINCTS, this is what passes for a joke about libertarians: “Ayn Rand, Rand Paul, and Paul Ryan walk … Continue reading →

In these days of transition in the political life of our nation and in cultures East and West, such as we see in the intense growth of Christianity in former Communist lands while the Faith is increasingly suppressed in formerly … Continue reading →