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Weird. I thought I had irrevocably broken my desktop’s connection to our Wi-Fi in my attempt to fix it. I couldn’t get it to work for nothin’ yesterday after I reinstalled it. So it sat there, all night. And this morning, it’s working. And the original problem – disconnecting and connecting approximately every 5 seconds,…

Notre Dame students have set up a blog dedicated to the discussion of academic freedom at their university. Go check it out.

Sandro Magister’s Denver talk from last week: A new cathedral church was built twelve years ago in Evry, to the south of Paris. It is recognized as the masterpiece of one of the most famous architects in the world, Mario Botta of Switzerland. During Sunday Mass, it is half-empty. But the nearby mosque is overflowing…

The Cafeteria is Closed disagrees with an interpretation of recent events in Vienna, originally described at Whispers in the Loggia. A newcomer to this blogworld must think that is an extremely odd statement. Perhaps even oldtimers, too.

Try religious freedom on for size. Another story from Turkey: Since January there is a drive by the Ecumenical Patriarchate to re-open the Theological Seminary of Heybeliada (Halki) in Istanbul. This seminary has been closed by the Turkish government even though it promised to permit its re-opening up till 2004. Currently under Turkish law, the…

That’s done, even with part of the day wasted trying to fix my computer problem that I caused in my effort to fix a lesser problem. And failed. Both times. But it can wait until I get back – I’ve got Michael’s laptop. (Oh, and mine? The one y’all bought for me last year? It’s…

Won’t be blogging until this afternoon – baby has his 15-month checkup (can you believe it?!) and then I have to finish that Thing I forgot.

Leon Wieseltier reviews the book, Breaking the Spell: Religion as Natural Phenomenon The orthodoxies of evolutionary psychology are all here, its tiresome way of roaming widely but never leaving its house, its legendary curiosity that somehow always discovers the same thing. The excited materialism of American society — I refer not to the American creed…

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American Papist has a great Cardinal Pell story – great because the Cardinal’s reaction is so approriate and a breath of fresh air. More bishops snorting in derision at lame ignorance and wishful-thinking, I say. Short version – apparently, some Australian Catholics have complained to the Vatican about Pell’s stance against RU-486, saying that it…
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