Blogworthies XLI Because The Blog from the Core simply can't cover everything. Noteworthy entries @ The Corner; Lex Communis; Turnabout; Power Line; GetReligion, Belmont Club; Inkwell; That Liberal Media; Froggy....

"A Few Fine Words" Peter Schramm blogs today his essay on the Gettysburg Address: .... It is strange that in an age when lengthy oratory was common, Lincoln gave a....

E.E. Cummings Jonathan Yardley reviews a new biography by Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno, at WaPo, Oct. 17 (quoted ellipsis in original): More than four decades after his death, Edward Estlin Cummings remains....

Specter's Statement on Judiciary Committee Arlen must have had to agree to this to get the chairmanship. + + + + + I have not and would not use a....

Let's Try Freedom Vide.

Breviaries Anybody? A request arrived yesterday: Wanted - Used copies of the Liturgy of the Hours, all four volumes if possible, but we will gladly accept single volumes. Growing membership....

Catholics Betrayed Thanks to Mark for sending this passage from A Generation Betrayed: Deconstructing Catholic Education in the English Speaking World by Eamonn Keane, p. 214: Western Societies are now....

Gerard Serafin, RIP A good friend of The Blog from the Core, fellow blogger Gerard Serafin a.k.a. Gerald Bugge, died today. His last substantive blog was the text of the....

ELCore.Net: Four Years Old Today My other website was started November 18, 2000. If you haven't been there before, here are some highlights: Wolves in Shepherd’s Clothing: Perfidious Priests and....

Dedication of the Basilicas of Ss. Peter & Paul Today in the Roman Church is the feastday of the Dedication of the Basilicas of St. Peter and St. Paul in....

Liberal Bias in Academia The New York Times reports on new studies today: .... The ratio of Democratic to Republican professors ranged from 3 to 1 among economists to 30....

Marriage in the Fifty States Here's a page at the Heritage Foundation that keeps track of how all us bigoted, reactionary, hateful "homophobic" rednecks are doing at protecting marriage by....

Jay Damien's Story And Fr. Emmett McLoughlin. At Revolution of Love: It was summer vacation, and I was again at my Grandmother's house, in her bedroom, staring at black beads....

Revolution of Love.com Blog Vide.

The Village Voice Explodes With anti-Christian bigotry. Thanks to Margaret for calling our attention to this Catholic League press release, today: Catholic League president William Donohue called attention today to....

Al Kresta's Story Catholic, then Protestant, now Catholic again. Over at Cor ad cor loquitur: .... This is one of the most remarkable, "meaty," thought-provoking conversion stories and extended criticisms....

Catholic Carnival IV At Dunmoose the Ageless, Protomonk this week. (Thanks, Nârwen.)

Sacred Music Vide.

St. Cecilia Schola Cantorum Vide. (Thanks, Fr. Jim.)

New City Journal Time It's that time again. Your Humble, Faithful Blogster has been informed by no less than the Senior Editor himself of City Journal that the latest issue....

Kookaburra Alert One of the world's most consistently hysterical Chicken Littles, Australian pediatrician (yes, pediatrician) Helen Caldicott, mouths off in Boston, as reported by the Sydney Morning Herald today (brackets....

"Five Reality Checks For Democrats: Dump Kofi, Moore, Dopes" A blockbuster by Tish Durkin at The New York Observer, yesterday: .... Bush is not an idiot. Kofi Annan is not....

Barone on the Election Fallout Michael Barone has a great column today at TownHall, covering a lot of territory that we cover here at The Blog from the Core: It....

Man Without Qualities Vide.

Catholics in the Public Square The successor weblog to Catholic (?) Kerry Watch. Vide.

Re: 3-D Red-Blue Margaret writes: I have been reading Homosexual Network (1982), a sociological study by Enrique Rueda, a Cuban-born priest. Twenty-two years later what he learned is very apparent....

Sensible Mom Smacks Lawrence O'Donnell A reader lets me know that her daughter corrects the ignorant opinion of a sore loser: The latest complaint from the left is that the....

"Academia ... and the Truth" Found a printout of this over the weekend. Sorry I've neglected to blog it before. .... I now ask you to consider the stifling of....

Three by Cummings I Poems by Edward Estlin Cummings. the hours rise up putting off stars and it is dawn into the street of the sky light walks scattering poems....