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The blog is new to me, but it seems rather splendid. http://ascentofcarmel.blogspot.fr/2012/07/by-seemingly-popular-demand-if.html  

There's a passage in the Vulgate I recently came across isolated from its usual context: 'Sicut nycticorax in domicilio' (Psalm 102, 7: "I am like a night raven in the house")—and I was struck by its resemblance to Caliban's mother's name, Sycorax.I know Wikipedia is not the surest guide, but their summary of scholars' conjectures to [...]

Allow me to try my hand at turning Richard Dawkins's sinister antics to good account by introducing StAR-gazers to the superb Catholic philosopher, polemicist, and Dawkins-baiter Edward Feser: http://edwardfeser.blogspot.fr/2012/03/reason-rally-doubleplusgood-newspeak.html I encourage you all to explore his website: http://edwardfeser.blogspot.fr/

Three Ways of 'Conservative' Dissent from the Magisterium:http://distributistreview.com/mag/2011/08/three-strategies-for-evasion/

This is a good piece on two important things: the crisis in Ireland, and the obligation to do justice to a complicated subject. While I don't agree with everything Oddie says, it is a useful corrective to the stereotypes and journalese surrounding the debate, and American-European issues generally. http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/commentandblogs/2011/08/04/sorry-mr-weigel-the-irish-church-has-problems-but-to-call-ireland-the-the-epicentre-of-european-anti-catholicism-is-simply-wrong/

Bishop defends paedophilia… or have I got that wrong? http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/damianthompson/100099179/bishop-defends-paedophilia-or-have-i-got-that-wrong/

It was with particular sadness that I learnt of the death of Warren H. Carroll yesterday. This engrossing and stimulating historian and founder of Christendom College was one of the first friends we had at StAR, unhesitatingly offering us his support and contributing a piece to our very first issue.It is surely a Providential tip of [...]

As British journalism teeters on the brink of anarchy, Ed Miliband, the leader of the Labour Party, has just joined the culture circus. In 1969 Monty Python gave us the Parrot Sketch; ten years later Not the Nine O'Clock News matched it with "Not the Parrot Sketch." It has taken some thirty years, but the Leader [...]

Just how sinister is Johann Hari, "Journalist"? I fell out with Johann Hari

Otto von Habsburg—the son of the last Emperor of Austria-Hungary—has died at the age of 98. A champion of traditional European values, and public enemy of the Nazis (when German troops were sent across the Austrian border on March 12, 1938, Hitler called it 'Operation Otto'), his passing reminds us that we are truly at the [...]