tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-143005992013-02-19T02:23:16.633-05:00Michael Liccionehttps://plus.google.com/115457097123519583591noreply@blogger.comBlogger1021125This is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site, subject to copyright and fair use.tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14300599.post-75453832822653101332013-02-10T14:50:00.000-05:002013-02-11T00:35:42.099-05:002013-02-11T00:35:42.099-05:00It's too bad that the homily I heard this morning was boring even by the standard of that particular priest, who is a holy man all the same. But that's what's prompted me to write on the theme of...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]Michael Liccionehttps://plus.google.com/115457097123519583591noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14300599.post-22654317407200403172013-02-08T11:21:00.000-05:002013-02-08T11:23:45.308-05:002013-02-08T11:23:45.308-05:00Fr. Al (Aidan) Kimel has a series up at his recently founded blog about St. Gregory of Nazianzen's trinitarian theology. For us theology geeks, it's well worth a read. What follows is a rewrite of a...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]Michael Liccionehttps://plus.google.com/115457097123519583591noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14300599.post-11467229872300076172013-02-05T14:27:00.002-05:002013-02-05T21:33:02.910-05:002013-02-05T21:33:02.910-05:00That's a question I was asked a few days ago by a Protestant commenter at Called to Communion. Readers who care to can read my initial reply here.&nbsp;Of course the man complained that my...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]Michael Liccionehttps://plus.google.com/115457097123519583591noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14300599.post-58838278744715199062013-02-03T12:57:00.001-05:002013-02-05T21:25:12.186-05:002013-02-05T21:25:12.186-05:00Objection 1. God doesn't care who wins the Super Bowl. For sporting events are "of the world," and God calls us out of the world to share even now in his divine life. Objection 2. If God did care...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]Michael Liccionehttps://plus.google.com/115457097123519583591noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14300599.post-13979422712640969532013-01-27T10:00:00.002-05:002013-01-27T13:53:00.591-05:002013-01-27T13:53:00.591-05:00Today's Gospel reading in the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite concludes: Rolling up the scroll, he handed it back to the attendant and sat down,&nbsp;and the eyes of all in the synagogue looked...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]Michael Liccionehttps://plus.google.com/115457097123519583591noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14300599.post-68565521306867709022013-01-25T23:51:00.000-05:002013-01-25T23:51:01.246-05:002013-01-25T23:51:01.246-05:00I recommend this excellent meditation by Fr. Al Kimel. <br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]Michael Liccionehttps://plus.google.com/115457097123519583591noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14300599.post-2629130859009378272013-01-18T18:41:00.001-05:002013-01-18T19:10:38.797-05:002013-01-18T19:10:38.797-05:00Lately I've been hearing, online and off, still more plaintive calls for "better adult catechesis." I'll say it one mo' time: The problem is not so much that they don't know as that they don't care;...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]Michael Liccionehttps://plus.google.com/115457097123519583591noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14300599.post-52094776436087542692012-06-16T19:48:00.001-05:002012-06-16T19:49:42.241-05:002012-06-16T19:49:42.241-05:00...to support traditional marriage by means such as this, and used it, the result would be called a new "Inquisition." <br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]Michael Liccionehttps://plus.google.com/115457097123519583591noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14300599.post-1023987389162963172012-06-13T21:29:00.001-05:002012-06-13T21:32:04.643-05:002012-06-13T21:32:04.643-05:00The trad world is on tenterhooks. An agreement with the SSPX is just around the corner. Methinks it always will be. As Mark Shea commented on my Facebook wall: " It's really hard for me to work...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]Michael Liccionehttps://plus.google.com/115457097123519583591noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14300599.post-49193290981784940012012-02-14T12:56:00.000-05:002012-02-14T23:36:27.096-05:002012-02-14T23:36:27.096-05:00I've been accused of being too "liberal" by some traditionalist Catholics and some politically conservative Catholics. Well, I offer Mark Shea's reply to that, even though he seems to me to define...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]Michael Liccionehttps://plus.google.com/115457097123519583591noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14300599.post-37748693255891796152012-02-13T00:30:00.000-05:002012-02-13T14:59:29.359-05:002012-02-13T14:59:29.359-05:00My title has the word 'liberalism' in scare quotes because I want to discuss the sort of liberalism that has grown scarier and scarier over the last several decades. I'm not talking about the...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]Michael Liccionehttps://plus.google.com/115457097123519583591noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14300599.post-84694073750712722672012-02-11T11:05:00.001-05:002012-02-13T19:33:23.163-05:002012-02-13T19:33:23.163-05:00Even some liberals wonder what Obama's been thinking with this HHS contraception mandate. So I'll lay it out simply. When a church-sponsored organization provides "social services," that's good...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]Michael Liccionehttps://plus.google.com/115457097123519583591noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14300599.post-9859722822129312262012-02-07T22:09:00.000-05:002012-02-07T23:18:31.365-05:002012-02-07T23:18:31.365-05:00A shibboleth of modern Anglo-American philosophy is a belief to the effect that "one cannot infer an ought-statement from an is-statement." The first explicit formulation of and argument for that...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]Michael Liccionehttps://plus.google.com/115457097123519583591noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14300599.post-17663031603219040862012-02-06T21:03:00.000-05:002012-02-06T21:08:36.055-05:002012-02-06T21:08:36.055-05:00The conclusion of new mega-meta-study, cited at the blog&nbsp;of Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse's Ruth Institute, is summed up by William West: A new study on divorce, looking at the complete spectrum...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]Michael Liccionehttps://plus.google.com/115457097123519583591noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14300599.post-13556833436225764732012-02-05T16:45:00.000-05:002012-02-05T20:02:00.203-05:002012-02-05T20:02:00.203-05:00The topic named in my title is one that I've written about before, for an academic journal, on this blog,&nbsp;and in the course of combox defenses of Catholic doctrine. At his blog Just Thomism,...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]Michael Liccionehttps://plus.google.com/115457097123519583591noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14300599.post-55068044839345193012012-02-04T10:03:00.001-05:002012-02-07T14:45:19.777-05:002012-02-07T14:45:19.777-05:00Given recent events, I thought it worthwhile to re-issue this three-year-old post and ask for opinions from thoughtful Catholics. Everybody knows—OK, almost everybody who reads this blog—that the...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]Michael Liccionehttps://plus.google.com/115457097123519583591noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14300599.post-10078927567183781592012-02-03T12:07:00.004-05:002012-02-04T12:57:49.709-05:002012-02-04T12:57:49.709-05:00By my fellow Dominican layman, Michael Seagriff. <br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]Michael Liccionehttps://plus.google.com/115457097123519583591noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14300599.post-20741483814565310382012-02-01T21:00:00.000-05:002012-02-01T21:35:42.016-05:002012-02-01T21:35:42.016-05:00For the ever-growing majority without a classical education, my allusion to Scylla and Charybdis can be understood well enough with the Wikipedia background. Suffice it to say that, although those...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]Michael Liccionehttps://plus.google.com/115457097123519583591noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14300599.post-13942837797361894042012-02-01T19:02:00.003-05:002012-02-01T21:36:39.470-05:002012-02-01T21:36:39.470-05:00Only an outrage combining religion and politics has managed to rouse me from a self-imposed silence over the past several months. I am furious. As an RPG-toting Chuck Norris announced in the closing...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]Michael Liccionehttps://plus.google.com/115457097123519583591noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14300599.post-71348233301781605252011-09-03T01:00:00.000-05:002011-09-03T11:50:51.018-05:002011-09-03T11:50:51.018-05:00With less to lose, I am freer to speak my mind than most members of the American chattering class. So I'll just say it straight: Feminism is sexist. But why? It doesn't have to be, of course. And...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]Mike Lnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14300599.post-65400486647639619422011-09-02T12:28:00.001-05:002011-09-02T15:37:42.101-05:002011-09-02T15:37:42.101-05:00I just had to say that in this medium, as I once did on Facebook. The consternation I aroused there bodes well for the traffic I hope to get here. But my saying it here and now is not just lust for...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]Michael Liccionehttps://plus.google.com/115457097123519583591noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14300599.post-67917740490508001432011-08-31T14:54:00.001-05:002011-08-31T14:57:29.727-05:002011-08-31T14:57:29.727-05:00...and if you like this blog, and you haven't already done so, please sign up as a "follower" with Google Friend Connect. You can find the link, and the list of current "followers," by scrolling down...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]Michael Liccionehttps://plus.google.com/115457097123519583591noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14300599.post-21516155441868443982011-08-30T16:33:00.013-05:002011-08-30T23:06:37.158-05:002011-08-30T23:06:37.158-05:00You read that right. According to William E. Carroll—a Catholic philosopher currently&nbsp;ensconced&nbsp;as a good old Fellow at Blackfriars, Oxford—a&nbsp;respectable organization conducted a...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]Michael Liccionehttps://plus.google.com/115457097123519583591noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14300599.post-46122875765553356112011-08-25T19:25:00.003-05:002012-02-01T20:11:21.532-05:002012-02-01T20:11:21.532-05:00Yes, it feels like a so-bad-it's-good Chuck Norris movie. At the climax&nbsp;of yet another such flick, the words of the steely-eyed hero played by Chuck resounded in the villain’s head: “It’s...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]Michael Liccionehttps://plus.google.com/115457097123519583591noreply@blogger.com0