From R.R. Reno, at the First Things blog, musing on how some seemingly assimilated Muslims can turn against the society in which they live: Moreover, the linkage of supposedly idealistic protest with violence and aggression is also very much a part our modern Western political aesthetic. The French Revolution sanctified mob violence and ritualized public…

Two journeys across the street to the park today, once with the little boys, Joseph trudging along because he declares it’s easier to walk than to ride his bike (and at the pace he pedals that thing – he’s right. I don’t think we’ll ever get him going fast enough to balance without the training…

…with German TV. Here’s the transcript. On young people: Young people are very generous but when they face the risk of a life-long commitment, be it marriage or a priestly vocation, they are afraid. The world is moving dramatically: nowadays I can continually do whatever I want with my life with all its unpredictable future…

A translation of an analysis in the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, written by Vittorio Messori, a well-known (and sometimes controversial) Italian journalist best known to us perhaps as the interviewer/co-author of The Ratzinger Report. Messori is adressing a profile of Bertone that the paper had published, noting that it only contained two direct quotes…

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