May 2012
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April 2012
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I really want to take this class: The Venerable... →
What they do is always too little, too late, and... →
(in German)
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Word of the day: “die Kanzlerdämmerung„
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Maybe I've been reading too much about Muslims in...
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I would like to go to here →
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“We would be remiss in our duty to you and our students if we did not challenge...”
– From a letter to Rep. Paul Ryan sent by nearly 90 faculty members and priests at Georgetown University: Georgetown Faculty Latest to Chide Ryan - NYTimes.com (via tartantambourine)
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. I love the Jesuits so much.
(via getmetoanunnery)
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If I were Presiding Bishop, I would:
commission Br. Robert Lentz, OFM to paint icons of all of the saints in Holy Women, Holy Men. I feel like Br. Lentz and HWHM are both good at casting (sometimes new) light on the saints we know and those we don’t know. They’ve both been instrumental in introducing me to the saints and other holy persons.
(I would do less frivolous things too)
“We have ten minutes left, so let’s talk about today’s topic.”
– Professor Bohnemeier, in Linguistic Anthropology this SOP
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Neo-Coptic Iconography is my Favorite →
Band of Sisters →
getmetoanunnery:
New documentary (trailer) about members of the LCWR. I caution Catholics to not judge the sisters’ faith and good works on the externals—what they wear,especially. Instead see what great work them have done and continue to do.
Oooh! I love me some women religious. (I also squealed in joy a little at the video of blJXXIII)
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I really am a fan of whatever style that St....
I’ve posted a number of other icons of this style and theyre pretty great, guys. If anyone knows what it’s called, I’d love to know.
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That article that I reblogged a few days ago about...
protectorateandcircuit:
Agreed. We are not dry memorialists.
I believe Holy Women, Holy Men is a good volume that introduces us to holy persons who we may not be familiar with, and challenges us with some who we might otherwise dismiss (Calvin, etc.). Its theological shortcomings should serve as a challenge for us to move forward with better attempts.
That article that I reblogged a few days ago about...
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Spent a chunk of this evening trying on vestments.
“All of us are watchers — of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the...”
– Peter M. Leschak (writer). A wonderful quote for ethnographers, who need to observe rather than just see. (via literary-ethnography)
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Secular liberals and the Christian foundations... →
So Great a Cloud of Memories →
affcath:
Derek Olsen’s problems with Holy Women, Holy Men, the Episcopal Church’s sanctoral supplement to the BCP
