"Lessons From the Fall of Iraq"

An excellent column by Bala Ambati in Friday's Duke Chronicle:

Iraqis' jubilation at the end of Saddam's reign holds lessons for all. It's time to demolish the petulant idiocies of the anti-American crowd....

To the protesters that said "not in our name": Iraqis' freedom and joy are indeed not in your name. The lives of countless Iraqis who would have been killed by Saddam for years to come are not in your name. The light that now pierces the darkness of fear in the Middle East is not in your name. Nonetheless, admit the obvious and be happy for all those no longer under Saddam's boot.

(Thanks, Charles.)

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Sun. 04/20/03 10:38:10 PM
Categorized as Political.

Photo Central II

The place to go today for scads of great photos, from the past week or so, is still Just Your Average Catholic Guy.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Sun. 04/20/03 10:03:12 PM
Categorized as Other.

More on South Dakota's "Catholic" Snake in the Grass

Re: the Weekly Standard article mentioned here.

Vide.

(Thanks, Patrick.)

P.S. Important note to Rome: the Catholic Church in the USA most desperately needs bishops with spine.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Sun. 04/20/03 09:30:27 PM
Categorized as Religious.

Bill Cork and Eucharistia de Ecclesia

Bill Cork has two most worthy blogs on the pope's latest encyclical and the public misrepresentation of reaction to it: The spin continues and "Hurtful and unhelpful".

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Sun. 04/20/03 09:17:29 PM
Categorized as Religious.

Thanks to Bloggers

Thanks to Dylan of more last than star for frequent notice of the poetry blogged here during Holy Week.

And thanks to Donna Marie Lewis of Quenta Nârwenion for frequent notice of the sermons of Cardinal Newman blogged here from time to time.

And special thanks to Justin Katz of Dust in the Light for his very kind notice of April Morning.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Sun. 04/20/03 09:08:49 PM
Categorized as Other.

Edmund Spenser: Easter

Most glorious Lord of Lyfe! that, on this day,
Didst make Thy triumph over death and sin;
And, having harrowd hell, didst bring away
Captivity thence captive, us to win:
This joyous day, deare Lord, with joy begin;
And grant that we, for whom thou diddest dye,
Being with Thy deare blood clene washt from sin,
May live for ever in felicity!
And that Thy love we weighing worthily,
May likewise love Thee for the same againe;
And for Thy sake, that all lyke deare didst buy,
With love may one another entertayne!
   So let us love, deare Love, lyke as we ought,
   —Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.

[The Oxford Book of English Verse (1900), ed. Arthur Quiller-Couch, 84; in 1939 edition, 94.]

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Sun. 04/20/03 08:54:36 PM
Categorized as Religious.

Easter Day

Sermons by Ven. John Henry Newman.

At Newman Reader:

• Christ, a Quickening Spirit (Easter Day)
• Saving Knowledge (Easter Monday)
• Self-Contemplation (Easter Tuesday)
• Keeping Fast and Festival (Easter Day)

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Sun. 04/20/03 09:24:58 AM
Categorized as Historical & Religious & Speeches and Suchlike.