POETRY CORNER
The Small Crucifixion, Matthias Grünewald
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Pange Lingua
Pange, lingua,
gloriosi
Corporis mysterium,
Sanguinisque pretiosi,
quem in mundi pretium
fructus ventris generosi
Rex effudit Gentium.
Nobis datus, nobis
natus
ex intacta Virgine,
et in mundo conversatus,
sparso verbi semine,
sui moras incolatus
miro clausit ordine.
In supremae nocte
cenae
recumbens cum fratribus
observata lege plene
cibis in legalibus,
cibum turbae duodenae
se dat suis manibus.
Verbum caro, panem
verum
verbo carnem efficit:
fitque sanguis Christi merum,
et si sensus deficit,
ad firmandum cor sincerum
sola fides sufficit.
Tantum ergo
Sacramentum
veneremur cernui:
et antiquum documentum
novo cedat ritui:
praestet fides supplementum
sensuum defectui.
Genitori, Genitoque
laus et iubilatio,
salus, honor, virtus quoque
sit et benedictio:
procedenti ab utroque
compar sit laudatio.
Amen. Alleluia.
--
Saint Thomas Aquinas
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Sing, My Tongue
Sing, my tongue, the
Saviour's glory,
of His flesh the mystery sing;
of the Blood, all price exceeding,
shed by our immortal King,
destined, for the world's redemption,
from a noble womb to spring.
Of a pure and spotless
Virgin
born for us on earth below,
He, as Man, with man conversing,
stayed, the seeds of truth to sow;
then He closed in solemn order
wondrously His life of woe.
On the night of that
Last Supper,
seated with His chosen band,
He the Pascal victim eating,
first fulfills the Law's command;
then as Food to His Apostles
gives Himself with His own hand.
Word-made-Flesh, the
bread of nature
by His word to Flesh He turns;
wine into His Blood He changes;-
what though sense no change discerns?
Only be the heart in earnest,
faith her lesson quickly learns.
Down in adoration
falling,
Lo! the sacred Host we hail;
Lo! o'er ancient forms departing,
newer rites of grace prevail;
faith for all defects supplying,
where the feeble sense fail.
To the everlasting
Father,
and the Son who reigns on high,
with the Holy Ghost proceeding
forth from Each eternally,
be salvation, honour, blessing,
might and endless majesty.
Amen. Alleluia.
--
Translated by Father Edward Caswall
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Kevin
Michael Grace, 5.45 pm, 14 April 2006►
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
At the age of 10, [Shusaku]
Endo had returned to Japan from Manchuria with his mother.
Suffering from the pain and social rejection of a divorce,
his mother found solace in the devout faith of her sister,
and so she converted to Catholicism. She attended early
Mass daily. In order to please his mother, Endo went along
with the conversion and was baptized a Christian. But had
he meant it? Was he, in fact, the reverse image of the
Kakure, a Christian who had gone through the externals
while secretly betraying Christ?
"I became a Catholic
against my will," he now says. He likens his faith to
an arranged marriage, a forced union with a wife chosen by
his mother. He tried to leave that wife -- for Marxism,
for atheism, for a time even contemplating suicide -- but
his attempts to escape always failed. He could not live
with this arranged wife; he could not live without her.
Meanwhile, she kept loving him, and to his surprise,
eventually he grew to love her in return.
Using another image, Endo
likens his Christian pilgrimage to a young boy squirming
inside a suit of clothes. He searches endlessly for a
better-fitting suit or perhaps a kimono but cannot find
one.
-- Philip
Yancey
Kevin Michael Grace,
1.45 am, 12 April 2006►
PENSÉE
Polygamy plus prohibition: why the (Muslim) heathen
rage.
Kevin Michael Grace,
1.48 am, 11 April 2006►
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
One might say here, varying a
well-known saying of the great Napoleon: “Anatomy is
destiny.”
-- Sigmund Freud
Kevin Michael Grace,
11.57 pm, 10 April 2006►
THE BAD SLEEP WELL
Only marginalized Canadians dare to speak out for free
speech. Only marginalized Canadians dare to speak out
against our immigration policy. Any Canadians not
previously marginalized who dare speak out for free speech
or against our immigration policy are shortly thereafter
marginalized. I suppose I didn't understand this back in
1999, or perhaps I didn't care. In the event, an Eclectica
column published that year was the beginning of my descent
into marginalization, now complete. It was the first time,
I believe, that Warren
Kinsella took
an interest in me. He shortly thereafter wrote --
or reheated -- a berserk attack on me and then sued when I
objected to it. More on that below.
Eclectica
Kevin Michael Grace
BC Report
13 September 1999
THE CANADIAN DISEASE
Tom
Bethel, himself an Englishman, has defined
the "English disease" as being ever eager to
demonstrate how good a fellow you are by never really
taking anything too seriously. But surely this diagnosis
is even truer of Canada, where anti-patriotism is the
patriotism of the intellectuals, where to celebrate this
country's history, tradition and culture, or even to
defend its national sovereignty, is to invite, at best,
sneering condescension, and at worst, accusations of
hate-mongering.
The spontaneous popular outrage that has
met the three (or is it four?) boatloads
of Chinese migrants caught Canada's elite
off guard. A tempest in a teapot: these little people,
these "whiners" would cease their caterwauling
soon enough. But when it became evident that the
anti-migrant sentiment might force a change in immigration
policy, our guardians changed tack. A scapegoat was
demanded. The real villain of this saga, we are now told,
is not Elinor
Caplan and certainly not the migrants or
the "snakeheads"
that brought them here. It is a certain Paul
Fromm of Rexdale, Ontario, director of the Canada
First Immigration Reform Committee.
SOUTHAM SHOWS ITS COLOURS
On 15 August the front page of the Victoria
Times Colonist was dominated by a photograph of
Chinese migrant held in detention at CFB Esquimalt. The
headline: "Go home." A subhead
explained, "We asked you to have your say about the
latest wave of migrants to reach our shores. Your response
was huge, the message was clear: Send them back
immediately. YES 3362. NO 105." In case the message
had not been driven home, the first line of the story
read, "Go home. By plane. By boat. Just go." An
editorial three days later was headlined, "Canadian
anger over migrants is not racism," and compared the
migrant landings to a military invasion.
Shortly thereafter the Times Colonist
started having second thoughts. An 31 August editorial,
"Restoring faith in system," declared, "The
main problem with Canada's refugee system isn't the
refugees." The landings had been downgraded from an
invasion to a mere abuse of process. By the next day, the
Times Colonist had completed its 180-degree turn. "Far
Right Stokes Refugee Fears," the
newspaper editorialized. The popular reaction to the
migrant crisis was now deemed "overwrought." The
newspaper mocked, "What do we do? Turn the boats back
to sea? Mine the western approaches? Shoot the migrants?
Give them bus tickets to Seattle? Declare war on
China?"
Perhaps the Times Colonist had
ventured into the fever swamps of the Internet. For it is
there, you see, that "groups like the Canada First
Immigration Reform Committee are taking valid questions
and concerns about immigration policy and dragging them
across the line, using them to legitimize weak-minded
xenophobia, pandering to our basest emotions and
fears."
How to explain the Times Colonist's
Orwellian transformation from tribune of the people to
scourge of demagogues? Only a cynic would suggest a
telephone call from Southam headquarters in Toronto.
GUILT BY ASSOCIATION
And only a cynic would suspect that the
two-minute hate being directed at Fromm is an organized
campaign. The Ottawa Citizen reports 21 August that
two NDP MPs have asked the Solicitor General to
"investigate" Fromm, citing his alleged ties to
the long-defunct Heritage Front. We learn in an August 30 Globe
and Mail story by John Gray, "Far
Right Using Web To Whip Up Hostility To Chinese
Migrants," that Fromm's petition to
deport the migrants is supported by white supremacists
Terry Long, Wolfgang
Droege and Gerry Lincoln. (One gets the
impression that only death prevented Adolf Hitler, Martin
Bormann and Heinrich Himmler from adding their names to
the list.) Fromm is revealed as a supporter of the
"free speech" (sarcastic quotation marks in the
original) rights of the sinister Doug
Collins.
Long, Droege and Lincoln make another
cameo appearance in a 2 September column by the Vancouver
Sun's Ian Mulgrew, who demands an end to the
immigration debate and its "excitable rhetoric,"
"thinly veiled bigotry" and "over-blown
hyperbole." Excitement, after all, is so very
un-Canadian.
NO ENEMIES TO THE LEFT
Canada's "far right" comprises
perhaps 50 people, of whom 40 are probably CSIS
provocateurs. Nonetheless, to link any political opinion
to this shadowy cabal is to destroy its legitimacy,
"extremist" being an epithet even more powerful
than "nigger." Gray, however, sees nothing wrong
in using Harry Abrams to blacken Fromm's name. Abrams is
described as "the B.C. representative of B'nai
Brith, who has tracked the recent
anti-immigrant campaign." He has also, as this column
revealed, published an account of his campaign against
Doug Collins in the Communist journal Outlook.
Sure, the Communists killed 150 million people, but nobody
ever accused them of being anything less than
"progressive."
SEE FOR YOURSELF
Those Canadians still inclined to think
for themselves can access Fromm's website at
www.canadafirst.net. Just be careful who's looking over
your shoulder.
____________________________________________________________________
Seven years later I am shocked by my
prescience. There is no immigration reform movement to
speak of in Canada, despite the horrors one reads every
day in the newspapers. The death of Western civilization
in Canada is as nothing compared to the pain of being
associated, however tenuously, with
"extremists."
As mentioned above, this column came to
the attention of Warren Kinsella, the professional
anti-Nazi. He wrote a letter to BC Report, where I
was managing editor, which I reprinted in full. (A
somewhat abbreviated letter ran in Alberta Report.)
Here it is:
Re:
Eclectica, [Sept. 13]. I doubt very much that this
will ever make it into print. In my experience, your
fondness for "free speech" extends only to
speech by those your publication's deep thinkers approve
of -- groups opposed to immigration, aboriginals and so
on. It does not extend to people like me. That said, I
will raise my voice anyway and offer a few comments about
Kevin Grace's recent tribute to Paul Fromm and his
anti-immigrant activities.
It
is outrageous and wrong, even for a polemicist like Mr.
Grace and a rag like your magazine, to promote the
activities of the notorious Paul Fromm and his Canada
First Immigration Reform Committee (CFIRC). In his column,
Ms. Francis [sic] disingenuously describes Mr. Fromm's
CFIRC as a group deserving of praise for opposing
non-white immigration. Mr. Grace holds Mr. Fromm up as a
shining example of moderation -- while ignoring Mr.
Fromm's many years of involvement with white supremacist
and neo-Nazi groups. A few facts are in order.
Mr.
Fromm started his involvement with the far right in the
1960s, with the Toronto-based Edmund Burke Society, which
opposed -- sometimes violently -- immigration, sex
education and homosexuality. Members of the group were
variously convicted of making bomb threats, break-ins,
thefts, arson, vandalism and many assaults. Later, in the
1970s, Mr. Fromm assisted in the formation of the more
avowedly pro-Nazi Western Guard, joining a stage in May
1972 with a prominent U.S. Ku Klux Klan leader who would
shortly go on to serve time in prison for bombing school
buses in Michigan.
In
the 1980s and 1990s Mr. Fromm has attempted to cultivate a
more genteel image. He has led groups with civic-minded
names like CFIRC, the Canadian Association for Free
Expression (CAFE) and Canadians for Foreign Aid Reform
(C-FAR), and he has developed a number of colourful
websites (the address of which Ms. Francis [sic] blithely
printed in her [sic] column, to assist schoolchildren in
looking it up, one surmises). But, every so often, Mr.
Fromm's true views about non-whites and Jews slip out, as
they did at a December 1990 rally in Toronto to celebrate
the achievements of a neo-Nazi terrorist group. As the
audience gave fascist salutes and chanted "nigger
out," Mr. Fromm reminisced about his Edmund Burke
days, and called for "unity" against "an
army of occupation."
In
November 1994 Mr. Fromm again appeared on a stage with a
number of neo-Nazis, this time in the United States. At a
rally organized by the National Alliance -- a group
founded by the author of The
Turner Diaries, the book that inspired the Oklahoma
City bombing -- Mr. Fromm's speech called for those
present "to be true to our Aryan spirit."
And
what of Mr. Fromm's websites, which Mr. Grace publicized
in his column? A cursory examination of the people who
have signed the anti-immigration petitions there are
revealing: Terry Long, the former leader of the Aryan
Nations in Canada, Wolfgang Droege, leader of the neo-Nazi
Heritage Front, Doug Collins, the anti-Semitic columnist,
Heritage Front founder Gerry Lincoln and assorted others,
such as B.C. resident Roger Rocan, who states that
Canadians 'have thrown our doors open ... to the parasites
of the world.'
For
my part, I can think of one fellow who perhaps deserves to
be removed from the country he clearly dislikes so much --
and that person would be Mr. Grace himself. I doubt very
much he'll ever relieve the rest of us of his presence,
however; there aren't many other places where he can
peddle his type of bilge and still get paid.
Warren
Kinsella,
Toronto
Fromm's objections to Kinsella's
assertions can be found here
(scroll down). My initial reaction to Kinsella's missive
was bafflement. Apart from his natural hatefulness, why
would he even suggest I could be deported from Canada? I
was, after all, born here and have not (unlike Conrad
Black) renounced my citizenship. Then I noticed the
reference to "Ms. Francis" and the female
pronouns. And then I remembered this.
And so I composed the following in reply:
Is
Warren Kinsella a person or a computer virus? How else to
explain this 600-word letter bomb aimed at me but
manufactured to maim Diane
Francis of the National Post? The
appearance of my name in close proximity to Paul Fromm's
has launched Mr. Kinsella's ever-vigilant e-mail program
into action, but he has obviously not read the column that
is the ostensible target of his salvo.
Specifically:
I did not "praise" Mr. Fromm for "opposing
non-white immigration." I expressed no opinion on
legal immigration, white or non-white, only illegal. I
described the boat people as Chinese because they are,
well, Chinese. I did not "hold Mr. Fromm up as a
shining example of moderation." On the contrary, I
condemned explicitly the "Canadian disease" of
not treating serious issues seriously. And a "cursory
examination" of my column would have revealed I am
fully aware of his risible argument that the support of
Terry Long, Wolfgang Droege and Gerry Lincoln invalidates
any position.
Mr.
Kinsella, like so many zealots, has become the mirror
image of his enemies. Just as some lunatics hallucinate a
Jewish world conspiracy, he sees neo-Nazis under every bed
-- orchestrating the immigration reform movement, the
opposition to the war against Serbia, even the defeat of
the Charlottetown
Accord. (For the latter, see Web
of Hate, a book that led to some
embarrassment for Mr. Kinsella -- not least the
five-figure sum his publisher was compelled to pay for his
libel of Roger Rocan.)
But
Mr. Kinsella is embarrassed rather often; perhaps this
explains his spleen. Consider his co-chairmanship of
Gordon Campbell's disastrous 1996 B.C. election campaign.
Or his thrashing at the hands of Ted White in the 1997
federal election -- this despite his
campaign's attempt to smear the North Vancouver MP as
someone who uses his elected office to provide a "soapbox
for his racist friends."
The
final paragraph of Mr. Kinsella's letter reveals an
interesting development in Liberal thought. It reminds me
of a famous scene in Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The
First Circle. When Stalin's political
prisoners learn of a punishment even more severe than
forced labour -- expulsion from the Soviet Union -- they
fall about laughing. If ever I end up in the Gulag
Warrenpelago, I too will regard deportation as liberation.
Until then, I plan to stick around.
Not content with having made a fool of himself, Warren
Kinsella sued me and Alberta Report. That is to
say, he filled out the papers and actually had them
served. But after our lawyer responded to his statement of
claim, we never heard from him again. Well, not about that
alleged libel, anyway. As I mentioned previously, however,
Warren
Kinsella later actually sent a threatening letter
after I sent him a email containing questions for a story.
Now, I'm not a lawyer, as Kinsella's Canadian Idol Jean
Chrétien used to say, but I do know, apparently unlike
Kinsella, who is a lawyer, that a private
communication between two people cannot (by definition) be
defamatory.
Actually, I'm pretty sure Kinsella knew this too. So
why did he threaten me again? Perhaps the same reason he
threatened all those bloggers.
The same reason he actually threatened (as Ted White
confirmed to me) people who criticized him in the letters
section of the North Shore News. More TK.
Kinsella: The Shit From Hell
Kevin Michael Grace,
3.50 am, 10 April 2006►
A HERO OF OUR TIME
Hotter And Nastier With Age
Punk Rocker Turned Liberal Propagandist Warren
Kinsella Spews
Invective Everywhere
Kevin Michael Grace
The Report
28 August 2000
Warren
Kinsella has been a lobbyist, reporter,
author, journalism professor, Jean Chrétien speechwriter,
backroom boy and failed candidate. Today he is a lawyer
and freelance Liberal scourge of the Canadian Alliance.
But he was once a punk rocker. His combo, the Hot
Nasties, released a 1980 EP, The
Invasion of the Tribbles, on Calgary's Social Blemish
label. Kinsella is pictured on the sleeve, wearing the
kind of hat associated in Canada with Joey
Jeremiah of Degrassi High. Punkers
were notorious for their constant spitting. Kinsella's
expectorations on Stockwell
Day keep that spirit alive.
Kinsella (left) circa 1980: Flogging a dead hat
J Warren Kinsella, as he is known professionally, is
employed by the big Grit law firm McMillan Binch of
Toronto. His relationship with the Liberal Party of Canada
is unclear. His 10 August National Post column
attacking Day for "apparent efforts to forge an
alliance with those who seek to destroy Canada"
describes him as "a Liberal Party member."
Liberal director of communications Aur le Gervais says
Kinsella is not an employee: "Not at this time, not
that I'm aware." He adds, "I'm not aware of any
volunteer work he does for the party."
It has been widely reported, however, that Kinsella
heads the Liberal Party's election readiness team. So far
as it is known, he has not threatened lawsuits over these
reports, but he has sued and threatened to sue many
commentators over the years, despite having himself
authored pieces critical of Canada's climate of
"libel chill."
(Kinsella is suing this magazine and reporter. Sent a
private email containing a list of questions for this
story, he replied with a legal letter, refusing an
interview and alleging, "The questions posed and the
insinuations raised...are malicious and defamatory.")
"The Liberals' chief drive-by-smear artist can
dish it out, but he doesn't seem to be able to take
it," the Canadian Alliance website taunted 19 July.
The gibe was contained in the fourth of a series called
"Spinning Warren's Web." "After years of
acting as one of the Liberals' main sources of sleazy
stories, rumour, and innuendo, his reaction to Spinning
Warren's Web last week was to complain that it hurt his
feelings and to threaten to call his lawyers!" A 12
July story on Pierre Bourque's website claims, "While
Kinsella yesterday was quick to dismiss the whole maneuver
to this reporter as a larkish endeavour, sources in
Toronto legal circles this afternoon are telling Bourque
that 'top T.O. lawyers are looking at the nasty
words...and considering a legal action against Stockwell
Day's party.'" (Kinsella is acting on his own behalf
in his suit against this magazine.)
The nasty words were "a Jerry Springer-like
obsession with sex and skinheads," referring to
Kinsella's penchant, in his 1994 book Web
of Hate and elsewhere, for accusing of
neo-Nazism those that disagree with him. The Alliance
asserted, "In keeping with our campaign of respect,
we removed the offending phrases from our website"
but that is not the real story. An Alliance staffer who
has worked on "Warren's Web" reports, "We
didn't want to back down, but Kinsella called Rod Love and
Jim Armour [key Day advisers] to complain he couldn't face
his wife with that Jerry Springer line out there."
Itsy bitsy Kinsella: Never far from the gutter spout
In the 29 July Ottawa Citizen, Kinsella claims
his four-year-old daughter was "delighted" by
the Warren-headed, eight-legged spider used to illustrate
the pieces. He characterizes their authors as "a
young man I once declined to hire for a political
job" and another "young fellow who once got
angry at me for having the effrontery to object to
Holocaust denial."
"Spinning Warren's Web" has noted that,
contrary to Kinsella's claims, Day never described
homosexuality as a "mental disorder," nor did he
act "as a minister of the crown" to ban John
Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men from Alberta schools.
These, however, are hardly Kinsella's most pustular
discharges. In the April edition of Lexpert, he
calls Day "a certifiable right-wing wacko:
clinically insane, in other words.
The sting of Kinsella's malevolence has been felt
countrywide. From a 27 January 1999 email to Marc
Lemire, webmaster of www.freedomsite.org:
"You Hitler-loving pillow biter. Too busy stocking up
on kiddie porn." (Pillow biter is slang for a passive
homosexual.) From emails sent to North Shore News
columnist Leo Knight (reproduced
in his 17 July column): "You
chrome-domed troglodyte"; "baldie
crypto-fascist"; "I look forward to your next
monosyllabic attempt at commentary in Der
Stürmer!" (a Nazi newspaper).
In an 6 April email to Ken
McVay, owner and administrator of the Nizkor
Project, the Internet's premier archive of
anti-Holocaust-revisionism material, Kinsella requests his
help for the third edition of Web of Hate. (The
first edition led to a $40,000 defamation settlement with
B.C. Reformer Roger
Rocan.) McVay replied, "I
have no intention of assisting you, now or in the
future." Kinsella shot back, "I
guess I will interpret that as licence to write whatever I
want. Glad to see you are cooperating with David
Irving on his website, by the way. I'll
make sure to mention that in the new edition. Along with
your fondness for signing neo-Nazi petitions."
It is not at all clear what Kinsella was driving at
here, but it's possible to speculate. The Nizkor Project
contains a whole section on revisionist historian Irving,
attacking his credibility and integrity. McVay did not
answer this magazine's request for information about
Kinsella's attack. Irving did; he suspects McVay was
brusque because Kinsella was "slated as a defence
witness in my libel action against [historian Deborah]
Lipstadt and her publishers." (He was not called to
testify.) Irving says of McVay, "I admire the work he
has done. Like me, he tries to be independent of outside
influences, and he outraged the Canadian Jewish community
by putting links to 'revisionists' on his website...in the
true Internet tradition. He could not jump over his own
shadow, however, which was that Nizkor is an ADL
[Anti-Defamation League]-front, Jewish-funded Web
site."
Irving concludes, "Kinsella has several times in
the past three months applied to me in emails for data on
the motives and success of my own website...He is very
indignant that I have refused to reply to his
messages."
Kinsella today: Still flogging a dead hat
Postscript: When not suing
journalists or threatening to sue
journalists, vexatious litigant Kinsella
serves as media critic for the National Post and
has a blog
there, demonstrating yet again CanWest
Global's touching devotion to freedom of
speech. From Maclean's
to the Toronto Star, everybody loves that Warren
Kinsella, demonstrating yet again the Canadian
establishment's touching devotion to freedom of speech.
Kevin Michael Grace,
12.47 am, 7 April 2006►
PENSÉE
You can fool all the people some of the time and some
of the people all the time -- or you can be Bono.
Kevin Michael Grace,
1.30 am, 6 April 2006►
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
Vibratos should be heavily
fined, along with that melismatic shite à la American
Idol.
-- Graham
Parker
Kevin Michael Grace,
1.28 am, 6 April 2006►
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
From time to time I, like many
of us, muse on what is wrong with the people who run our
country. Are they stupid? Are they naïve? Or are they
actually downright wicked?
-- Simon
Heffer
Kevin Michael Grace,
1.02 am, 5 April 2006►
ELECTIVE AFFINITY
Contrary to the impression given here,
I do not dislike cats. Actually, in common with fellow "evilcons"
Pat
Buchanan and Peter
Brimelow, I'm really rather fond of them.
Sadly, however, I'm forbidden to keep one in my apartment.
No such restriction harries the peripatetic Jay
Currie, who has recently acquired a Burmese
called Coco. I worried how the animal would fare at the
hands of his "energetic" young children Sam
and Max, but that was before my discovery
of its scarifying talent for transmogrification. The
picture below shows Currie's cat having jumped up onto my
knee. It has been modified only by cropping: no Photoshop
tricks.
Coco in mid-shapeshift
Kevin Michael Grace,
3.05 am, 4 April 2006►
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
[SPECIAL JON STEWART INTERVIEWS RICKY GERVAIS EDITION]
It's a fat man's duty never to
remove his jacket.
-- GK Chesterton
Kevin Michael Grace,
12.05 am, 4 April 2006►
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
We are spiritually bankrupt --
that's what's wrong with this country. We don't take
Sundays off. We don't pray. We don't regenerate our
spirit. These things aren't luxuries, they're necessities
for humankind, for modern men and women, just as they were
for ancient men and women. The spirit has to be
replenished. There has to be time for reflection,
introspection, and a certain amount of awe and wonder.
There are certain things we need to survive -- food,
shelter, and spiritual security. We can't get along
without it. But we've become so materialistic, so
avaricious, that our capacity for love has become injured.
-- David
Mamet
Kevin Michael Grace,
1.41 pm, 3 April 2006►
BLOGROLLING
Four names added to the list: Leon
Hadar, Peter
Hitchens (a welcome return), Martin
Kelly and Daniel
McCarthy.
Kevin Michael Grace,
11.59 pm, 2 April 2006►
PENSÉE
Epigraph for Pope John Paul II: He travelled while Rome
burned.
Kevin Michael Grace,
11.33 pm, 2 April 2006►
THOUGHT
FOR THE DAY
He
who praises everybody praises nobody.
--Samuel
Johnson
Kevin Michael Grace,
11.31 pm, 2 April 2006►
