19 March AD 2024

TVESDAY MORNING EDITION

The Construction of the Tower of Babel by Frederik van Valckenborch (Credit: The Catholic Thing)

Against Catchphrase Theology

. . .George Orwell warned of the dangers of imprecise language to the political health of a nation.  Fuzzy expression begets fuzzy thinking, which begets more fuzzy expression, & so on.  As Orwell writes, “As soon as certain topics are raised, the concrete melts into the abstract & no one seems able to think of turns of speech that are not hackneyed:  prose consists less & less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, & more & more of phrase stacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house”. . .

by Nicholas Senz,

of The Catholic Thing

Live Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament – Adorecast
9 Years Into Common Core, Test Scores Are Down, Indoctrination Up – Joy Pullman, The Fdrlst
Is the Didache the Key to Understanding Paul’s Judaizers Issue? – Jimmy Akin, JimmyAkin.com
A Northern Italian Romanesque Monastery – Gregory DiPippo, New Liturgical Movement
Communists Act Like Communists – Donald R. McClarey J.D., The American Catholic
“With the Help of the State” – Fr. James V. Schall S.J., Crisis Magazine
Racism, the Flint Water Crises, & the Midterm Elections – Gene M. Van Son, Catholic Stand
The Funerary Rites of James II – Rick Yoder, The Amish Catholic
Jesuit Plantation Among Sites Discovered on Navy Lands in Maryland – John Burger, Aleteia
The White House to Revise Exemptions to Contraception Mandate – National Catholic Register
Late Medieval English Vestments – Allan Barton, Liturgical Arts Journal
The Cross of Absences – Paul Kniaz, Catholic Stand
Red China Has the Most Massive Population Surveillance System in the World – Helen Raleigh, TF
Praying for Those Who Have Died Is a Work of Mercy – Msgr. Charles Pope, Community in Mission
Do Transhumanists Need a Bill of Rights? – Michael Cook, Mercatornet
Customs of Martinmas – Shawn R. Tribe, Liturgical Arts Journal
Abortion Still at Issue in Several Midterm Races – Cthlc News Agency via National Cthlc Register
How To Style Yourself When Your Size Is Changing – Meghan Ashley Styling (Catholic)
Pain & Prayer – Nathalie Fernandez, Ignitum Today
Scandals, Saints, Vatican II, & Fundraising – Brice Sokolowski, CatholicFundraiser.net
Unrepeatable: Cultivating the Unique Calling of Every Person – Cathy G. Knipper, Catholic Stand
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