Three

One of the great things about having a lot of children is that there is often a three year old in the house. I don’t know if I have a favorite age, unless it is “under six”, but three year olds are particularly delightful. While articulate and imaginative, they retain something of infancy, unselfconscious and [...]

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Thomas Storck to Speak on Distributism

Tom mentioned this in a comment a few weeks ago; here is the official announcement.
Nassau Community College Center for Catholic Studies Presents a Conference:
Catholicism and Economics: Democratic Socialist, Democratic Capitalist, and Distributist Options
The Nassau Community College Center for Catholic Studies, in conjunction with the New York Regional Chapter [...]

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Thomas Storck Radio Interview Today

I received this email today from Richard Aleman of the Society for Distributism. I assume “this evening” refers to today, Feb. 16, 2009:
Dear friends of the Society,
This evening, Jeremiah Bannister, host of Paleo Radio (broadcast from Olivet College), will interview Thomas Storck, author of The Catholic Milieu, Foundations of a Catholic Political Order, and Christendom [...]

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Strange, Stranger, Perfect Stranger

Last Sunday I drove to Parma, to the Byzantine Cathedral of St John, because I wanted to hear a talk on the Jesus Prayer after the Divine Liturgy.
After the Liturgy was over, a middle aged man walked up to me and said “Dan?” I studied his face for a moment and realized that I [...]

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