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Correctly Political: Surrender to TeBorg. Resistance is Futile.
Sat Jan 14, 2012 8:34 PM EST
Back in Week 3 of the NFL season, as the bookbag-shuffling and laptop-closing cacophony began to drown out the last few minutes of a late Friday afternoon class and the students near the front (successfully) conspired to shut me up with ordinary water-cooler talk, they asked me …
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Roman cavalry helmet found in Iron Age shrine may prove Britons fought with legions - Telegraph
Seeded on Tue Jan 10, 2012 11:04 PM EST (Telegraph)
The helmet features scenes of Roman military victory, including the bust of awoman flanked by lions, and a Roman Emperor on horseback with the goddessVictory flying behind and a cowering figure, possibly a native Briton, beingtrampled under his horse's hooves.
Against the abyss: a Dominican anniversary |
Seeded on Tue Dec 27, 2011 12:42 PM EST (The Dominican Province of St. Joseph)
Listen to Tracey McClure of Vatican Radio report about a landmark anniversary: the 500th anniversary of a Dominican preaching a homily that condemned social injustice and upheld the human right of all indigenous people to live freely, and with dignity. The year was 1511.
THE ECONOMIC CRISIS AND THE SOCIAL DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH
Seeded on Mon Oct 17, 2011 6:35 PM EDT (Vatican Information Service)
"Over the last 120 years, during which the social doctrine of the Church has developed, many great changes have taken place which were not even imaginable at the time of Leo XIII's historic Encyclical 'Rerum novarum'.
Lost city found in Dardanelles, Turkey : Older than Troy
Seeded on Tue Sep 27, 2011 10:47 PM EDT (National Turk)
Led by associate professor Rüstem Aslan, the archeology team made a surface survey in the vicinity of Erenkoy, Canakkale on the shore. The team has found ceramics and pottery, what led them to ponder a mound could be nearby.
Project Gutenberg creator Michael S. Hart dies at 64 - The Washington Post
Seeded on Fri Sep 9, 2011 4:23 PM EDT (The Washington Post)
Some people called Michael S. Hart a Don Quixote, always tilting at windmills. As it happens, Cervantes’s classic tale of the man of La Mancha is one of the more than 36,000 books in Project Gutenberg, a monumental free online library that Mr.
More sex please, we're Greek: exposing the myth of Platonic love
Seeded on Fri Aug 19, 2011 10:18 PM EDT (PhysOrg.com)
University of Manchester science historian Dr Jay Kennedy, who hit the headlines last year after revealing he had cracked the code in the great thinker's writings, has now published a decoder's manual that lays bare the secret content of Plato's ancient works. "Plato – the Eins …
The Europe that might have been [Otto von Habsburg Obit]
Seeded on Wed Jul 6, 2011 10:45 PM EDT (Ottawa Citizen)
Otto von Habsburg died Monday, age 98. He was, from the demise of his father Karl, on April 1, 1922, the legitimate heir to the throne of Austro-Hungary, and by extension, "pretender" to the thrones of 11 different countries in Central Europe.
In the hands of youth - L'Osservatore Romano and an anniversary celebrated with a view to the future
Seeded on Sat Jul 2, 2011 1:38 AM EDT (L'Osservatore Romano)
The attention to life between time and eternity is the secret of the Vatican newspaper and it could not be otherwise for a Catholic paper, which is open to the universal. It follows the Church which is Catholic, open to all in every time and place.
What canonical consequences might Andrew Cuomo face now?
Seeded on Sun Jun 26, 2011 2:14 PM EDT (In the Light of the Law:)
In the wake of these incontestable facts, and speaking only from my expertise in Catholic canon law (leaving cultural and political commentary to others) Andrew Cuomo faces, as I see it, at least two major canonical problems.
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