I guess that's about right.

No.

Oof I feel exactly the opposite.

The charitable frame is that the instinct *can be* a reaction to the real injustices and potential and actual violence bound up with demographic decline, especially to the very young and the very old. But of course it's mostly driven by its own sort of violent pagan vitalism. Bridges go two ways

This is a lot weirder than those.

The Trackless Woods Iris DeMent · Album · 2015 · 18 songs

Very much in the spirit of your playlist here, have you ever encountered Iris Dement's album setting translated Anna Akhmatova poetry to piano music: open.spotify.com/album/2qklW5...

Why? It's nice.

Yep

Who wrote this? I found it kinda moving.

Wrt her, I'll admit I thought Michael Pakaluk's comments in his Mark translation were some of the best remarks I'd ever encountered about that episode.

Wait, not the Syrophoenician woman?

Do I just read the paper, or kind of present it colloquially? Do I make a handout? The paper is 14 pages double-spaced, how much time should I expect that to take?

Got some cool news this morning! My first time presenting a paper at an academic conference (I've also never even been to an academic conference), so I'd appreciate advice from academic mutuals on here about what you do and how it all works.

Some possibilities seem to me a consequence of space-filling, where if it can happen it just seems like it eventually will. Not sure if this is that but I wouldn't be surprised.

I don't know man, we're creatures so "because I said so" is just part of the grammar of why there's anything at all. As concerns those parts of reality that are firstly given to us (like the priesthood), istm our arguments gesture at fittingness rather than arrive at conclusions.

Only one seems possible to me, but just because it's possible it kinda seems likely to me. Anyway, we'll all find out together.

This is right.

I admittedly find all those compelling enough on their own, and I'm inclined to think some version of "because I said so" is how everything cashes out in the end one way or another.

Same is true for contraception, God forbid we should take "perverted faculty" arguments as constitutive of anything.

Well it isn't a "conclusion" in the sense that it depends on prior premises. The "arguments" from Jesus' decision to ordain only men, the prefiguration of the levitical priesthood, sexual symbolism, appeals to authority and tradition etc are all more like elucidations.

Anybody who takes it in any of those directions can be reading the text consistently and in good faith. Cesar Chavez, Lech Walesa, Dorothy Day, as much as various reactionary mercantilists and corporatists. Feature not a bug.

It offers an articulation of principle that can bear fruit in the independent and collective activity of labor, an affirmation of the diffuse appropriation of property as a natural good, and also corporatist nod to the cooperation of labor and capital.

It's both.

Also the first American Pope elected on V E day amid this global turmoil is pretty cinematic

Also the first American Pope elected on V E day amid this global turmoil is pretty cinematic

My read on the name is that it's conciliatory: a nod to social justice and catholic social teaching, and likewise a nod to the thomists, so different vibrant corners in the Church's life.

Same

Love a good sincere post, wading through ironic detachment gets exhausting.

I more or less have a very high regard for all the popes of the 20th and 21st centuries for different reasons so I'm hoping the streak continues.

Hopeful Anthem Showdown Who has the best anthem for our hopeless and love-starved world: John Lennon or Leonard Cohen?

I've got a piece out in Plough this week on Leonard Cohen and John Lennon:

www.plough.com/en/topics/cu...

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