listen to desiderius erasmus

                       I doubt if a single individual can be found
                        from the whole of mankind
                        free from some form of insanity.
               The only difference is one of degree.
                   A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife
                    is called insane because
                         this happens to very few people.











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last light shining

                   




                 “Lifting one's gaze to the living God,   the guarantor of our freedom and of truth,
               is a premise for arriving at a new humanity.     Nowadays, in a special way,
           the world needs people capable of proclaiming and bearing witness to God who is love,
      and consequently the one light which in the end,   illumines the darkness of the world
 and gives us strength to live and work”




                - Pope Benedict XVI, Deus Caritas Est. 2006

epistemological constraint

We are learning a great many clever things.
 The next great task will be to learn not to do them.




             -- G.K. Chesterton













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fallacy all dressed up

There is no female mind.
The brain is not an organ of sex.
Might as well speak of a female liver.


                - Charlotte Perkins Gilman









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nobody said this would be easy

while the fullness of faith can be said to subsist
within the Roman Catholic Church
the Church herself subsists largely
in a sea of hatred and blindness







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a little ignatian exercise

That we may be altogether of the same mind and in conformity with the Church herself,   if she shall have defined anything to be black which appears to our eyes to be white,   we ought in like manner to pronounce it to be black.    For we must undoubtingly believe,   that the Spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ,    and the Spirit of the Orthodox Church His Spouse,   by which Spirit we are governed and directed to Salvation,   is the same; ....            Ignatius Loyola  SJ  (founder of the Society of Jesus) .

nyt blues

Breaking News: Senate Backs Legislation to Raise Taxes on Wealthiest Americans

Breaking News: Talks on Fiscal Crisis Face Setback That Threatens Deal

Today's Headlines: Senate Leaders Set to Work on a Last-Minute Tax Agreement

Today's Headlines: Summoned Back to Work, Senators Chafe at Inaction

Today's Headlines: Real and Virtual Firearms Nurture a Marketing Link

Today's Headlines: Search for Way Through Fiscal Impasse Turns to the Senate

Today's Headlines: For Poor, Leap to College Often Ends in a Hard Fall









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