There is an excellent post about Lent here. I have not come across Alec Rarus' blog before but I'm sure I'll be back. Tip: Sirius
Brandon, who writes Sirius, has a good post on how not to criticsize Natural Law.
If you have having touble telling Dawn Eden from Ann Coulter, this might help.
Picking up on my earlier post about Russell Kirk and Human Nature: there is a post about how the concept of human nature has been questioned by doubters in the social sciences here. This is part of a longer series of philosophical posts on values that are recommended reading. Deep but powerful and to the point stuff. The first in the series is here.
Ecce Homo I haven't done a quote from Pope Ratzinger's Introduction to Chistianty in a while and even though I have finished the book there are still one or two passages I want to share, including - perhaps even especially - this one. When I first began to look over what Christianity teaches, to look at the gospel story and to try penetrate why it has been so compelling to so many for so long, this was one of the things that leapt out at me. I was happy to see our Pope confirm it. Expanding on the Apostles Creed where it says "... suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried," Ratzinger writes: The fact that when the perfectly just man appeared he was crucified, delivered up by justice to death, tells us pitilessly who man is: Thou art such, man, that thou canst not bear the just man - that he who simply loves becomes a fool, a scourged criminal, an outcast. Thou art such because, unjust thyself, thou dost always need the injustice of the n...
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