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Posts about Joseph Ratzinger written by dpmonahan| Truth and Tolerance
Posts about Joseph Ratzinger written by dpmonahan| Truth and Tolerance
Today is the last day of June, the month Catholics devote to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The current form of the devotion dates to a 17th century nun named Mary Margaret Alacoque, but it is found in…| Truth and Tolerance
6 posts published by dpmonahan during April 2018| Truth and Tolerance
What is Trump 2.0’s foreign policy? Some moves suggest he is dismantling the American Empire: Other moves suggest he is looking to reaffirm the Empire: What exactly is going on here? I suspect there are two models of Empire in tension. One model of Empire is primarily economic. In the economic model America provides the […]| Truth and Tolerance
Living in Salem MA is generally nice but Halloween lasts about 3 months. Traffic is awful, the bars are packed with tourists, and kitche multiplies. I worked from home for two years during Covid so I would pack a suitcase and move to my mother’s house in central MA for the entire month of October. […]| Truth and Tolerance
Some guys at work were talking about Genesis. It reminded me of a vivid dream I had 3 or 4 years ago. I was exploring a quaint New England town. Our little towns are built around a town green (a lawn) flanked by the Congregational Church, Town Hall, and Town Library, all pillars of the […]| Truth and Tolerance
Old bills are coming due. We have obscured truths that were obvious to previous iterations of Western Civilization, in fact of all civilization, and which will eventually become obvious again. A few of these truths: The longer these sorts of truths are ignored the harder the crash will be.| Truth and Tolerance
WAPO did a study about political extremism and noticed a connection between people’s politics and their first names. Left leaning names: With few exceptions, absolute garbage names. Cedric is a good Anglo-Saxon name and Nathaniel works. I don’t mind Hattie, Mattie or Willie but the rest are.. uh.. for me a little too ethnic. Right […]| Truth and Tolerance
I’ve liked Thomas Tallis since boyhood. I was subjected to his work in spite of my native preference for Punk and Prog Rock, and learned to like it in spite of myself. In 1567 Tallis wrote 9 pieces for an Anglican Archbishop who needed English versions of the Psalms that met the standards of the […]| Truth and Tolerance
Today I got to listen to a very accomplished and highly educated CEO of a publicly traded global technology company with $1 billion yearly revenue talk about the economic opportunities afforded by decarbonization and AI. Both mean a lot of computers, which means a lot of sales. Both also demand a lot of energy: big […]| Truth and Tolerance
About 20 years ago I was living in Connecticut and I would hang out sometimes with a group of Catholic guys that was about half Latino. I picked up a lot of Spanish. One day a few of us were playing soccer in a park that had a small pond which was heavily populated with […]| Truth and Tolerance
Tucker Carlson is catching heat for hosting Darryl Cooper of the Martyr Made Podcast. I’ve enjoyed Cooper’s takes on Jim Jones, Jeffery Epstein, and Dostoyevsky, but never had the attention span to tackle his multi-day lectures on the American Labor Movement or Slavery. None of those Martyr Made podcasts have landed Carlson in trouble, rather […]| Truth and Tolerance
Richard John Neuhaus observed that where religious orthodoxy is optional it will sooner or later be proscribed. Orthodoxy, no matter how politely expressed, suggests that there is a right and a wro…| Truth and Tolerance
