Paper Clippings The Blog of The Crossroads Cultural Center

Paper Clippings, more than a classical blog, is a service providing valuable reading material in order to help readers reach a judgment about current affairs. Comments and discussion are more than welcome.

Thursday
May052011

Give us sages on stages

Two interesting pieces on Catholic schools in New York City.
Friday
Apr222011

The martyr

The situation in Pakistan.
Thursday
Apr212011

Division of labor

Time Magazine has a story on the Papal family.
Thursday
Apr212011

Not wasting time

The remarkable career of Dolores Hart.
Tuesday
Apr192011

Options

Rod Dreher on the major role that morality plays in knowledge.
Thursday
Apr072011

Meaningful?

This year's Templeton Prize has been awarded.
Wednesday
Mar302011

Public service

Could Catholic schoolds be chartered?
Wednesday
Mar302011

Strong presumption

An interview with Cardinal Scola.
Sunday
Mar272011

"The new wave in human resources?"

This article in Fortune sounds like a joke, but the date is March 25, not April 1. So perhaps it is serious? At least, centuries ago the "challenges of hiring and managing serfs" included housing and feeding them.
Saturday
Mar192011

Historic

Cardinal Marc Oullet's presentation of the Pope's new book on Jesus.
Wednesday
Mar092011

Nothing new

"We are moving towards a persecution of Christianity because Christians believe in a source of authority separate from and higher than the State."
Tuesday
Mar082011

Reason and affectivity

David Brooks keeps mounting an interesting philosophical attack against reductive rationalism. However, he feels he must do it under the cover of "science," which is ultimately self-defeating.
Wednesday
Mar022011

The meaning of the cross

A killing transparently carried out in odium fidei. One of Batthi's last interviews.
Thursday
Feb242011

Full cycle

The Enlightenment is back in fashion.
Thursday
Feb242011

Confused

Douglas Farrow on the "fluidity of gender" and other follies.