The slightly grubby man–rarely, if ever, a woman–comes up to you with the story above. And, you have heard it before more than once. It is one of the oldest stories used by panhandlers. It is repeated over and over because it is one of the more successful stories. In fact, Father Orthoduck has heard […]
Good enough for government work and science – part 03
Science is not perfect. It is a system of approximations. People involved in science keep trying various explanations for what they observe until they find an explanation that makes sense out of what they are seeing. But, the process goes farther than simply observation into the areas of math, cosmology, and even metaphysics. Many observations […]
Good enough for government work and science – part 02
Science is actually about approximations. You might ask, “approximations to what?” Science is about approximations to truth. What do I mean approximations to truth? Well, science is the search for explanations which explain what we see, or, at least, that is how it started. How do we explain the motion of the stars? How do […]
Be joyful, the Lord is come
Listen and enjoy. GAUDETE!
Good enough for government work and science – part 01
Have you ever heard the phrase, “good enough for government work?” Generally, it is used to speak in a negative way about a task that has been accomplished. But, really, good enough for government work is the way in which many things actually work in real life. What do I mean? Have you read the […]
The Virgin Mary and the definition of an adult
So, how old was Mary, Our Lady, when she became pregnant with Our Lord Jesus Christ? Well, the answer commonly held by the Early Church Fathers was the same as what the totally apocryphal gospel, the Protoevangelium of James says. What does that apocryphal writing say? And when she was twelve years old there was […]
On differing cultural viewpoints on church unity
The early history of the USA is replete with immigrants from the Radical Reformation who were seeking to escape the Continent and all those decadent churches, whether Catholic or Protestant, in order to finally set up a “church” that was true to what they perceived as being the New Testament model. We do not often […]
Rubrics for gunfire in the Mass
Father Orthoduck is happy to reprint the following from Fr. Z’s blog. It is not the entire article. You will need to go there in order to read it, but it is quite a bit of the post. Enjoy the humor! From a reader: I have a question for you. Suppose during a EF Mass, […]
Blog having technical problems
This is a quick note to say that my blog is having some technical problems. I hope they will be fixed soon. Sorry for the inconvenience.
The fight for the soul of conservatism
This will be my last post on this small series that has developed on various types of conservatives. As you notice, I have posted both from the Crunchy Cons and from David Frum of the American Enterprise Institute and his interview by CNN. But, let me now quote directly from the FrumForum, a conservative forum […]
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