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
Jul132017

Non sequitur
Charles Camosy points out that moral judgments never follow from medical facts by themselves.
Wednesday
Jun212017

Disarming beuty
John Allen interviews Fr. Julian Carron.
Tuesday
Jun202017

European Germany
Fr. Edmund Waldstein on the death of Helmut Kohl.
Tuesday
Jun202017

"Science-based" thinking
A clear-headed column by Ben Domenech on the link between "global technocracy" and political polarization.
Thursday
Jun152017

Non valde boni
Elizabeth Bruenig on St. Augustine.
Friday
Jun092017

New Movements
These discussions are very significant for the future of the Church.
Tuesday
Jun062017

Perpetual 1960's...
fighting perpetual 1950's is a good description of much of progressive political culture in the US.
Sunday
Jun042017

The age of autonomy
Andrew J. Bacevich on the larger trends in our "non-society".
Tuesday
May302017

The death of American conservatism
according to Patrick Deneen.
Thursday
May042017

Live every day to the fullest
Cardinal Van Thuan is on his way to canonization.
Wednesday
May032017

No more left vs. right
A somewhat dense but interesting essay by Pierre Manent.
Tuesday
Apr112017

Wednesday
Mar292017
