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The Long View 2006-11-10: The Morning of the Day Before

I hadn’t known [or had forgotten] that John J. Reilly was among the Catholics who find the logic of Humane Vitae less than airtight. He was also among the much smaller group who thinks the doctrine is correct, it just needs to be explained a bit better. The Morning

The Long View: Third Law Conservatism

John Reilly proposes here an interesting psychology of schism: The usual motive for schism, however, is conservative: new groups form because they believe that the old one has departed from tradition in some way. For groups like the Old Catholics [split from the Catholic Church after Vatican I proposed papal

The Long View 2006-10-30: Premonitions and Dark Arts

There is an interesting premonition of the Eurozone financial crisis here. Monetary union between Germany and Italy and Germany and Greece devastated the economies of the smaller, less productive countries. Some people saw this coming a long time ago. There is a kind of analogy to be made to the

The Long View 2006-10-23: American Nadir; Empire; Art; Indult; Thanatophobia

I would concur with John Reilly here that a sung Mass, whether High or Low, is a remarkable experience. There are a variety of sung settings for the Mass, in both the ordinary and extraordinary forms, by well-known composers. It is unfortunately difficult to find one in practice. I had

The Long View 2006-10-17: Refutation of the Refutation

The Long View re-posting project took a back-seat while I struggled through J. G. Ballard’s short stories, but we are back! An interesting bit that I missed at the time this was going on in 2006 was Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio publicly criticized Pope Benedict for his Regensburg address, and

The Long View 2006-10-16: Crunchy Convert; Cardinal Invisible; Stinger Countermeasures

Both Rod Dreher and now Damon Linker have quite publicly left the Catholic Church in reaction to the on-going sexual abuse scandals. Both of them have also publicly said that part of their reason for doing so is their disappointment in the behavior of Fr. Richard John Neuhaus in reaction

Linkfest 2018-08-28

Population Immiseration in America I've got a draft on wages over time in the wings now, but Peter Turchin has some great graphs in this article. Museum Visitor Falls Into Giant Hole That Looks Like a Cartoonish Painting on the Floor I think a previous linkfest included an