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With the Catholic News sites discussing the Vatican's move to reform the LCWR, I pulled this slim volume written back in 1986 off the shelf to re-read. It's a quick and amusing read: a satirical view of the breakdown and renewal of reli...
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This was the first time in some years that I've re-read this Austen novel, one of the quieter and shorter ones, but one which has ranked among my favorites. It was striking me, on this pass, that it rather shows the effects of having be...
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That's a great article--thanks for linking it. It states in a much more articulate way than I ever could the essential hollowness of this movement--not in a mocking mean way, but in a way that's thoughtful and, yes, meaningful. These protests remind of the worst of postmodernity--echoes upon meaningless echoes, with no there there.
Here is my answer to his essay:
Is Wall Street Opposition "vain ritualised unconsequential protesting"?
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