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Tag Archives: Pope Benedict XVI
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Piece on the anniversary of Vatican II, which began fifty years ago last week, and despite the best efforts of arch-conservatism over the past two popes, such as the stacking of cardinal appointments on the reactionary front benches, and reinforcing … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani, Angelo Cardinal Roncalli, Brunery painter, Conrad Black, Conrad Black National Post, George Croegaert, Jehan Georges Vibert, Joseph Frings, Joseph Ratzinger, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope John XXIII, Pope Paul VI, Pope Pius XII, The Band The Weight, Vatican II Anniversary, Vincent Auriol French President
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green lines, red lines, and flashing lights
This week on the Mondoweiss site, they selectively pulled excerpts from a letter Jack Kennedy had written his father, Joseph, from Palestine in 1939, when the future President was a mere but perceptive twenty-two years old. Father Joe was a … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Dominique Lapierre, Hurva Synagogue Jerusalem, Irgun King David Hotel, John F. Kennedy Palestine, Joseph Kennedy, Larry Collins, Lord Beaverbrook, Lord beaverbrook Collection of War Art, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Pius XII, Robert Kennedy, Robert Kennedy Palestine
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ashes to ashes, dust to dust…
When ole’ Henry talks people listen. Ten year contract and then its over. Gone. In the blink of an eye. Despite all her magic spells, sometimes even Cassandra experienced difficulties in predicting the future. But not Henry. And who could … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Bob Dylan, Carol Rushton, Cindy Adams New York Post, Henry Kissinger, Iran Red Lines, John William Waterhouse, Lazar Berman, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, N.W. Hutchings, Oslo Peace Accords, Pope Benedict XVI, Shimon Peres Peace Medal, Sir Alistair Horne, Tara Butzbaugh, yitzhak rabin
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hold your horses
Its Italy. It runs by its own logic.This past week has seen a collision with the past present and future. The priest blesses the horse, and then the Palio, the famous break-neck, bareback horse race around Siena’s main piazza takes … Continue reading
uhhmm…ommm…and deceptive bends
American popular culture, true to form, has been able to commercialize and monetize Yoga; disengaging it from its Hindu spiritual roots and transforming it into a leisure past-time and hobby where it is placed on the rack or shelf, and … Continue reading
PLEDGING FAITH AS COLLATERAL: Sloth & the Imp
“This new millennium already marked by killings is merely a sign of what Conrad called our miserable ingenuity. How we love to create Devils and Gods and bloody rivers of ways to get their almighty attention. What we turn away … Continue reading
Posted in Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous
Tagged Brendan Gill, Cardinal Egan, Christopher Hitchens, Conrad Black, Father Gabriele Amorth, Frans Huys, Goethe, Hieronymous Bosch, Jacques Derrida, Jimmy Breslin, Jimmy Breslin The Church That Forgot Christ, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Joseph Conrad, Kelly Cogswell, Neil Reynolds, Pope Benedict XVI, Randy Newman, Rossano Gospels, Stanley Milgram, Syriac Bible of Paris, Watering of the Girls Hungary
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