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Month December 2008

More than Judy Garland: The Political Meaning of the Wizard of Oz

Recently I recalled that years ago in college one of my professors mentioned something about the Wizard of Oz being more than a children’s story and also more than a cool visual to go with Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of… Continue Reading →

Today on CMR – December 16, 2008

Cheney Defends Waterboarding—For the record. They are wrong. Two Heroes of the Pro-Life Movement—Another succesful undercover video investigation into Planned Parenthood. Mundelein Psalter Goes Into Third Printing—The Mundelein Psalter , a fruit of VII, brings the Office to the laity…. Continue Reading →

Cheney Defends Waterboarding

Sorry Mr. Vice President, there needs to be a line. Anything does not go in the name of keeping America safe. As hopefully everyone knows, I don’t have Bush/Cheney derangement syndrome, but they are simply wrong about this. Immoral things… Continue Reading →

Two Heroes of the Pro-Life Movement

Remember that video a few weeks ago by the Mona Lisa Project where a Planned Parenthood in Indiana covered up a statutory rape allegation. And when the video came out PP said they too were shocked and that this worker… Continue Reading →

Mundelein Psalter Goes Into Third Printing

Some years ago, The Liturgical Institute in Mundelein took a publishing risk in trying to bring an easy-to-use version of the Divine Office to the Church. Under the leadership of the Institute’s director, Fr. Douglas Martis, the Institute’s publishing arm… Continue Reading →

Miracle of Life Or Population Bomb?

This video is called “The Stork is the Bird of War” and it horrifies me and leads me to believe that sadly, there is clearly a tragic disconnect in Western civilization. There are clearly two cultures. One sees babies as… Continue Reading →

A Milestone in Catholic Comedy!

This video was made by CMR’s new official priest Father Jim Reynolds of Brooklyn who wrote: Greetings!As you know, I am a medical mess, and I am medically disabled by poor health. I live in a Residence for Senior/Retired Priests…. Continue Reading →

War and Rumors of Wars: 2009 Predictions

This is the thing to do as one year draws to a close and another begins. Here are my predictions for 2009. I am not a prophet, so most of what I am writing is likely nonsense. My qualification for… Continue Reading →

Today On CMR – December 15, 2008

Help Needed: Leo Cartwright—CMR’s version of a face on a milk carton. Keep Your Theology Off My Technology—Every time the Church attacks scientists, it’s like Galileo is beheaded all over again. 1/4 Catholics Believe in Reincarnation—A new poll shows Catholicism… Continue Reading →

Help Needed: Leo Cartwright

For some time now I have been running across the name of a liturgical artist in my architectural research on the churches of the mid-20th century: Leo Cartwright. He seems to have been quite active in the late 1950s and… Continue Reading →

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