Pray for the victims in Kyrgyzstan, where a cargo plane crashed into a village in the middle of the night, killing 33, including women and children, as they slept in their homes. One truly knows not the day nor the hour, and, as Our Lord prophesied, we may be taken even from our very beds. […]
Day: January 16, 2017
No Harvard Anywhere, and Other Notes
Stephen Gordon argues that it is a good thing that Canada does not have an ‘elite’ university like Harvard (and, by extension one may presume, no ‘ivy league’ universities at all). His argument, from my brief perusal, is that everyone should benefit from a university education, since it leads to higher salaries, which is why[…]
Silence and the Clericalism of Fr. Rodrigues
Father Scott Murray Scorsese’s film adaptation of Shusaku Endo’s Silence is true to the original. In fact, I don’t believe I have ever seen a movie that so closely follows its source. There are, of course, small changes and not all of Fr. Rodrigues’ interior monologues and narrations make their way into the film, but[…]