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		<title>Tilting at minarets</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 02:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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When I encounter the few times that people speak of me elsewhere on the Internet, I am always a little amused by what they think I am really like. So I will just clarify once and for all that in spite of all appearances, I am actually a &#8220;Lefebvrist&#8221;, at least in my theology. If [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arturovasquez.wordpress.com&blog=2894911&post=4886&subd=arturovasquez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Approaching René Girard</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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I found this interesting discussion in my meanderings around the Internet. Although I really dislike Bouyer, I will give him the benefit of the doubt on his reflections on Girard&#8217;s work on sacrifice, violence, and mimesis. Reading Girard is an intellectual project I have set out for myself next year, if only to clear up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arturovasquez.wordpress.com&blog=2894911&post=4859&subd=arturovasquez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On art and commitment</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:43:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arturo Vasquez</dc:creator>
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[originally posted here]
Shostakovich is a composer very dear to my heart, and not just because I am an ex-Marxist. The power, drive and idealism that his music exudes are truly astounding in a century so dominated by musical experiments that didn&#8217;t work. There was no flamboyant experimentalism in his music, even though it was indeed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arturovasquez.wordpress.com&blog=2894911&post=4836&subd=arturovasquez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On being paid to think religious thoughts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arturo Vasquez</dc:creator>
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&#8230;But it went against Maimonides&#8217; grain to use the Torah as a spade. The notion that the communities were obligated to subsidize scholars in their studies was something he regarded as an &#8220;error, for neither the Torah nor the books of the later sages have any guiding principle, any indication to support this.&#8221;
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		<title>Scott Hahn: SUPERSTAR!!!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
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or: Slouching towards the &#8220;American Jesus&#8221; &#8211; part III
The autumn sky in New Orleans threatened rain. But rain this time of year is nothing like the downpours of hurricane season, the ones that all churches here pray that Our Lady of Prompt Succour temper with her motherly hand. AG was already in a bad mood, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arturovasquez.wordpress.com&blog=2894911&post=4728&subd=arturovasquez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Carlos Saura&#8217;s Fados</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arturo Vasquez</dc:creator>
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		<title>Slouching towards the &#8220;American Jesus&#8221; &#8211; part I</title>
		<link>http://arturovasquez.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/slouching-towards-the-american-jesus-part-i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arturo Vasquez</dc:creator>
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With friends like these&#8230;
Ordinarily, I don&#8217;t read Protestant blogs, especially those of the &#8220;Catholic friendly&#8221; type. So places like the Internet Monk rarely see my virtual shadow graze their screen full of pixels. One post on Josh S.&#8217; blog did link to a post on this other blog, and since I have of late thought [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arturovasquez.wordpress.com&blog=2894911&post=4692&subd=arturovasquez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chauvin Sculpture Garden</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arturo Vasquez</dc:creator>
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From a useful website:
Little is known about the reclusive Kenny Hill, a bricklayer by trade, born around 1950. In 1988, he settled on some property on the bayou in Chauvin (pronounced show-van), Louisiana—population 3,400. Hill pitched a tent as his home and, over time, built a small rustic home that demonstrated an interesting use of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arturovasquez.wordpress.com&blog=2894911&post=4636&subd=arturovasquez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gaelic psalmody</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:45:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arturo Vasquez</dc:creator>
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Saw this on Facebook somewhere. Sorry for the lack of attribution.
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		<title>Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter&#8230;and Spring</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arturo Vasquez</dc:creator>
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AG and I watched this movie recently, and were quite impressed by it. Directed by Kim Ki-duk, the film follows the life of a monk growing up in a Korean Buddhist hermitage, falling into grave sin, and returning to begin the process over again. As you can see from the clip above, this movie was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arturovasquez.wordpress.com&blog=2894911&post=4558&subd=arturovasquez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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