Paper Clippings The Blog of The Crossroads Cultural Center

Paper Clippings, more than a classical blog, is a service providing valuable reading material in order to help readers reach a judgment about current affairs. Comments and discussion are more than welcome.

Entries from August 1, 2007 - August 31, 2007

Monday
Aug272007

Road to Antioch

This must be a real trend, of which many of us have met examples. And it is indeed significant of the unresolved contradictions of US Protestantism.

Saturday
Aug252007

Meeting people

John Allen has been filing stories from the Rimini Meeting, here and here. Read more about the Hegazy case.

Friday
Aug242007

Fractured

One could argue that, historically, the major factor that motivated the existence of Belgium as a bi-national state was shared Catholicism. Apparently, the ideology of the multicultural welfare state will not do it...

Thursday
Aug232007

Time for change

Victor Davis Hanson on school reform. On the same topic, here is another proposal.

Monday
Aug202007

Well said

Another classic Spengler column:


(he) does not love Reason; he merely hates Christianity.

Monday
Aug202007

Open heaven

Sandro Magister tells the story of the 800 martyrs of Otranto.

Monday
Aug202007

Contingencies

This piece by Prof. Kenneth Miller at the time of the Intelligent Design controversy two years ago was very much on target.

Friday
Aug172007

As did the apostles

The Economist has a good obituary of Cardinal Lustiger.

Friday
Aug172007

Escape from fatherhood

Arthur Miller's secret son.

Wednesday
Aug152007

Kerouac at 50

The poignant chronicle of human restlessness, On the Road, reaches the half century mark.