St. Austin Review: Reclaiming Culture

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Enjoy the ponderings of the Star's contributors and add your own thoughts. As this section develops, we hope it may become a medium for an exchange of ideas among those who are working towards the cultural revival.

• December 25th, 2010Stanford Nutting Christmas Specialby Joseph Pearce

  I know that Kevin O'Brien has already posted the link to his hilarious "Stanford Nutting Christmas Special" but I want to add my own personal recommendation that you take the nine minutes or so to watch it. It's not to be missed. Heresy has never been this funny!!!

  Here's the link: 

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1FOOto-JpU

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• December 25th, 2010ACLU: Dreaming Of A Red Christmasby Joseph Pearce

  Paul Kengor continues the good work he began in his recent book, Dupes, in which he exposes the communist and pro-Soviet sympathies and activities of the founders of America's "progressive" movement. His latest exposé uncovers the support that the founders of the ACLU gave to Stalin's butcherous tyranny. Dr. Kengor's article, originally published in the American Spectator, speaks for itself. Needless to say, there is a grim irony inherent in the connection between those who espouse "civil liberties" while supporting the mass murder of civilians during Stalin's Red Terror. It parallels the irony inherent in those who espouse "civil liberties" while supporting the mass infanticide of legalized abortion. Plus ça change ... 

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• December 16th, 2010Who Needs Condoms?by Joseph Pearce

  The indomitable Janet Smith posted a link to this video on her Facebook page. It’s very funny and could put Planned Parenthood out of business.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhC5hRm673M

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• December 16th, 2010Shakespeare the Papistby Joseph Pearce

  I’ve just responded to a graduate student at a university in New York who is writing a research paper on the Catholic Shakespeare. As part of her research she put the following questions to me. I thought I’d share her questions, and my responses, with the visitors to this site:

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• December 14th, 2010True to the Wordsby Sophia Mason

  As a bonafide JPII baby and a long-time resident of the relatively conservative Arlington Diocese, I grew up without hearing the traditional or Tridentine Mass. I prefer “Tridentine Mass” to “Latin Mass” because having been raised in such a time and place, “Latin Mass” means something quite different to me than it does to most people: it stands for the Latin Novus Ordo.

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• December 10th, 2010Remembering The London Martyrs Of 1591by Joseph Pearce

  On this day in 1591, as the Catholic Shakespeare was working on the earliest of his plays, several Catholics were put to death in London for the practice of their faith. 

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• December 7th, 2010The Enigma of George Orwellby Joseph Pearce

  Nineteen Eighty-Four is one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. It's long been a favourite of mine, though I find its ultimately despairing climax more irritating now that I'm a Christian than I did in my days of pre-conversion darkness.

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• December 7th, 2010The Shadow of Futurityby Joseph Pearce

  In his famous “defence of poetry”, Percy Bysshe Shelley venerated “the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present”. He also wrote an evocative sonnet about “Ozymandias, King of Kings”. Both of these works sprung to my mind when I received a forwarded e-mail from a friend about developments in technology and the likely ramifications of globalism on the future of the United States.

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• December 6th, 2010Flannery and meby Dena Hunt

  What is the Eucharist? Everything. It’s the complete Gospel. It’s the culmination of Jewish history and the sum of the Christian faith. It’s the entire Catechism of the Catholic Church. It speaks not a word because it is the Word. It’s everything that ever mattered or ever will matter. It’s what you believe or don’t believe—and yes, that’s a decision you make, not an intellectual argument, and not a coercive sentiment—none of that stuff. A decision. Stark—and simple.

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• December 6th, 2010Behold I Make All Things Newby Kevin O'Brien

  I know the Immaculate Conception is controversial as viewed from a Protestant perspective, but there is a Gospel analogy that supports it. Why would Mary, the most important woman in salvation history, "need" to be Immaculately Conceived, a "new creation" like Eve?

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• December 6th, 2010Earthen Vesselsby Kevin O'Brien

  (A response to my friend Joe Grabowski's post here http://arthuringlewood.blogspot.com/2010/12/ww3d.html about the communion of saints.)

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• December 3rd, 2010Modernism And Modern Anglicanismby Joseph Pearce

  Observers of the current modernist meltdown within the Anglican church will no doubt welcome Pope Benedict’s efforts to offer a home in the Catholic Church for those Anglicans who have remained doggedly and dogmatically loyal to the Apostolic faith in such faithless times. For a truly hilarious satirical commentary on the rise of modernism in the Church of England, there is nothing better than this scene from the British sitcom, Yes, Prime Minister.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_Ox24WIBEQ&feature=player_embedded

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• December 3rd, 2010Video Veroby Joseph Pearce

  This short two minute video is a wonderful advertisement for the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter. It’s in French but, quite frankly, the video speaks for itself in any language:

  http://www.fssp.org/objet/comdvdfr.htm

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• December 1st, 2010Honouring St. Edmund Campion And The English Martyrsby Joseph Pearce

  Today is the anniversary of the martyrdom of the English Jesuit, St. Edmund Campion and his companions. Here is the text of an e-mail on the subject that I’ve just received:

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• December 1st, 2010The Satirizing Of Franz Kafkaby Joseph Pearce

  Every Fall semester I teach Kafka’s Metamorphosis as part of the Twentieth Century literature course for seniors at Ave Maria University. I compare it with two other “nightmare” visions of reality, Chesterton’s Man Who was Thursday and Joyce’sPortrait of the Artist. In putting Kafka on trial and discovering that the poor traits of Joyce’s artist indicate that he is dead, alas, we can see more clearly that Chesterton, by comparison, is truly a man alive (the plethora of puns were intended!).

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• December 1st, 2010A New Yearby Sophia Mason

  There’s something beautiful in the fact that the calendar year and the Church year both begin during the winter. Old New Year’s Day (March 25^th, the Feast of the Annunciation) was no bad time to relaunch.

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• December 1st, 2010Catholic Authors: Help Needed!by Lorraine V. Murray

  It's no secret that Catholic fiction writers have to work harder and longer than secular authors to get their books reviewed. And although it's true that reviews really shouldn't mean that much, let's face it, they do! Every author likes to know his works are being read. 

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• December 1st, 2010New Documentary On C. S. Lewisby Joseph Pearce

  Last year I was honoured and privileged to be interviewed for a new film documentary on C. S. Lewis. The video has just been released via the filmmaker’s website. Having watched the previews, I am keen that as many people as possible get to see this wonderful new exposition of Lewis’ thought. Take a look at the previews on the link below. It’s well worth half an hour of your time to see Lewis’ ideas come alive once again in this new exciting film.

  http://www.narniafaith.com/engage/narnia-night/downloads/

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• November 29th, 2010Formed in Formlessnessby Kevin O'Brien

  I have just begun a very interesting book called "The Heresy of Formlessness" by Martin Mosebach, translated from the German by Graham Harrison and published by ( http://www.ignatius.com/Products/HF-P/heresy-of-formlessness.aspx ) Ignatius Press.

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• November 25th, 2010Launching The Constellation Of Supportersby Joseph Pearce

  Bruce Fingerhut and I are launching a Constellation of Supporters dedicated to helping us build the St. Austin Review over the coming years. Here’s what membership of such a Constellation would entail.

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