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MINT-AND-CORN COUNTRY, INDIANA — The new mantra at The Gap, it seems, is “Two, four, six, eight, ’tis the time to liberate. […] You eighty-six the rules, you do what just feels right.” This all from their multi-spiritual holiday commercial: “Go Christmas, go Hanukkah, go Kwanzaa, go Solstice!”
A member of the One True Faith, I [...]
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MINT-AND-CORN COUNTRY, INDIANA — I realize that Anglican-Catholic concerns aren’t exactly the primary focus of Post Right, but I do believe that relations amongst orthodox, apostolic Christians — Anglican, Roman, and Eastern — should be (and often are) of interest and concern to alternative/crunchy/paleo/post-right/front-porch conservatives. Emphasis on traditional morality, humane economics, and the natural [...]
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MINT-AND-CORN COUNTRY, INDIANA — I’ve read part of it, and am printing it [PDF], with my painfully slow inkjet; eventually, I think I’ll have a thing or to two say. I recognize that this is not a Catholic (or even wholly Christian!) Weblog, but the Church’s long-standing tradition of social teaching offers a lot for [...]
(Cross-posted at The Other Right)
Via Upturned Earth, Hitchens is in Athens. I’ll leave the historical criticisms to more competent parties, but I just feel the need to kvetch about this for a moment:
Don’t let me blast on too long about how absolutely heart-stopping the brilliance of these people was. But did you know, for example, that the [...]
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(Cross-posted at The Other Right)
Like Nathan, I’m also curious what the next encyclical will have to say… Undoubtedly it’ll make some demands for a return to a more moral economy, but I’ll be curious if the Church’s longstanding interest in subsidiarity and community translates into a more explicit localism or if the spatial side of things [...]
MINT-AND-CORN COUNTRY, INDIANA — By way of NOR’s Daily Links: Pope Benedict XVI’s eagerly awaited (at least by yours truly) social encyclical, Caritas in Veritate, “is expected to be signed by the pope on June 29, and released at the beginning of summer.”
Unsurprisingly, the current global economic situation has piqued curiosity in this forthcoming document, [...]