A sad commentary of some in the Catholic Church today. ===== Say this for the liberal impulse in American Catholicism: In its day, it leavened the faith. Against the church’s tendencies to clericalism, it promoted the contributions of the laity. Against suspicions in Rome, it championed the American experiment. In particular, the liberal impulse advanced the idea of religious liberty for all... Read more
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Social Justice and Ryan the Heretic
August 21 | Posted by mrossol | Abortion, Party Politics, Religion, The LeftThe Postmodern President
August 16 | Posted by mrossol | Obama, Party PoliticsHeavy sigh. ========== President Obama spent his formative years in academia, so he’s no doubt familiar with postmodernism, the literary theory that rejects objective reality and insists instead that everything is a matter of interpretation and relative “truth.” At any rate he’s running the first postmodern Presidential campaign, now organized almost exclusively around allegations about his opponent that bear no relation to... Read more
The President Has a List
April 29 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Obama, Party PoliticsAll about transparency, isn’t it. ============ Strassel: The President Has a List – WSJ.com.
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Repo Men- A “Must Read”
December 28 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Obama, Party PoliticsLong, but very worth the time… ============= If you’re making money on the Wall Street scale — which is nothing like your boring, middle-management in the Fortune 500, Hamptons-and-Mercedes, barely–a–1 percenter type money — then you can buy basically anything. When real-estate investor Robert Rosania put part of his storied champagne collection up for sale in 2008, the auction was predicted to... Read more
