Tucked away deep in the new 'National Security Strategy' that Bush released on March 16 was some bad news for Third World countries: Bush wants the IMF and World Bank to shove the free market even further down their throats...Fire on the Prairie radio program, March 12, 2006, Show Summary
On this episode Aaron Sarver sits down with Jeff Chang, author of Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation, and talks about Chang’s award-winning book and the history of hip-hop. Also hear thoughts on democracy matters by Dr. Cornel West, Princeton University professor, public intellectual and activist. We bring you an excerpt of a recent speech he gave as part at the University of Chicago’s Organization of Black Students George E. Kent lecture series.
Neuhaus on Gay Adoption by Andrew Sullivan
[Neuhaus] knows that he is perpetuating some of the vilest slanders against gay people: that we 'recruit' children and molest them. It is the same blood-libel once used against Jews...CT - Spong, the Measure of All Things
Bishop Spong and his book Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism helped to return me to Christianity. That's a story for another time, but it proves at least one thing - God is a very good comedian.
Paper Clippings - Progress I
It appears that Gary Wills has finally written something we can agree with...
Garry Wills: "What Jesus Meant"
Forum talks to historian Garry Wills about the meaning of the teachings of Jesus. Host: Michael Krasny, Guests: Garry Wills, Wills is a professor emeritus of history at Northwestern University. His books include "Papal Sin", "Why I am a Catholic" and the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Lincoln at Gettysburg." His most recent book is "What Jesus Meant." Listen to the entire radio program by clicking here. Page down until you see it. Take your blood pressure medicine before listening to this program!
CT - The Incoherence of Hannah Arendt, Breaking the marriage between heaven and earth by Eugene McCarraher
Catholic Way - Remembering Terri by Fr Frank and Deacon Keith
On March 31st we will all remember Terri....
The Weekly Standard - Monkish
What the increase of monastic vocations in Italy could mean for European secularism by Christopher Levenick
ZENIT - Benedict XVI's Homily at Mass for All Workers, "Not to Be Enslaved by Work or Idolize It"
GodSpy - THE LITURGY OF THE CITY STREET
If you are intrigued by the above GodSpy article, I refer you to the books, the videos, and the website of James Howard Kunstler, not to mention others who are calling for urban renewal.
A Beautiful Church Has Been Raised At Tor Tre Teste. But It Is Absentminded, and Mute
The pope visits a new church built in Rome by Richard Meier. Its walls are all bare, incapable of expressing the Christian faith. Pietro De Marco compares it with the cathedral of Monreale, and explains how to bring it back to life by Sandro Magister.
We are blessed here in St. Louis to have the largest mosaic basilica in the world. It's a real gem.
Continuing on the theme that technology is the "ontology of the age," I refer you to following GodSpy article, Power and Responsibility by Romano Guardini. Fifty years ago, Romano Guardini—one of the twentieth century’s most important Catholic thinkers—anticipated how technology would change our world, and recommended a course of action for the post-Christian era. For further reading, check out the following books of Guardini - Letters from Lake Como & The End of the Modern World.
Ignatius Insight Scoop - Aidan Nichols, OP, to give first lectureship in Catholic theology since the Reformation...
TRACES - Deus Caritas Est, The Humanity of Faith by Massimo Camisasca. If you enjoyed what you read, check out Fr. Camisasca's new book which is outstanding!
I end this roundup with a great link on 'Nuove Musiche.'
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In another interview, Gary Wills also said that the pope is responsible for murder. I posted this at http://eagleandelephant.blogspot.com/2006/03/is-pope-murderer-wills-says-sure.html
On Tuesday, March 14, he was interviewed on Boston's NPR station.
In the interview, he is critical of just about everything the Catholic Church and the Christian Tradition represent. In the interview, Wills goes on to blame the pope for the many deaths resulting from AIDS around the world. Huh? Yep. You got that right. Pope Benedict XVI, according to the mindset of Gary Wills, is "responsible for murder."
Here is a transcript posted by Amy Welborn:
Wills: There is..a message of life and love in the New Testament. Little of that comes out of Rome now. People are dying of AIDS all around the world now especially in places like Africa and Indonesia now, …when the Pope refuses to allow people to have contraception, he’s killing them. He’s responsible for murder. This is hardly a gospel of life and love.
Interviewer: You say that Pope Benedict is responsible for murder?
Wills: Sure, sure.
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