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<!--Generated by Squarespace V5 Site Server v5.13.166 (http://www.squarespace.com) on Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:09:25 GMT--><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><title>Paper Clippings</title><subtitle>Paper Clippings</subtitle><id>http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/</id><link rel="alternate" type="application/xhtml+xml" href="http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/atom.xml"/><updated>2013-06-12T12:13:26Z</updated><generator uri="http://five.squarespace.com/" version="Squarespace V5 Site Server v5.13.166 (http://www.squarespace.com)">Squarespace</generator><entry><title>Corrosive Ideology</title><id>http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/2013/6/12/corrosive-ideology.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/2013/6/12/corrosive-ideology.html"/><author><name>Crossroads Cultural Center</name></author><published>2013-06-12T12:12:36Z</published><updated>2013-06-12T12:12:36Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/defending-humanities_733960.html">Phil Lawler</a> supports Wieseltier's attack against scientism.]]></content></entry><entry><title>Ignorant ignorantia</title><id>http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/2013/5/29/ignorant-ignorantia.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/2013/5/29/ignorant-ignorantia.html"/><author><name>Crossroads Cultural Center</name></author><published>2013-05-29T17:40:49Z</published><updated>2013-05-29T17:40:49Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113299/leon-wieseltier-commencement-speech-brandeis-university-2013#">Leon Wieseltier</a> on the decline of the humanities.]]></content></entry><entry><title>The center of the universe?</title><id>http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/2013/5/28/the-center-of-the-universe.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/2013/5/28/the-center-of-the-universe.html"/><author><name>Crossroads Cultural Center</name></author><published>2013-05-28T13:07:00Z</published><updated>2013-05-28T13:07:00Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[The Lord likes to play with <a href="http://nautil.us/blog/an-overdose-of-copernicus-our-universe-might-yet-be-special">cosmologists</a>.]]></content></entry><entry><title>Words</title><id>http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/2013/5/21/words.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/2013/5/21/words.html"/><author><name>Crossroads Cultural Center</name></author><published>2013-05-21T21:25:21Z</published><updated>2013-05-21T21:25:21Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/21/opinion/brooks-what-our-words-tell-us.html?hp&_r=1&">David Brooks</a> of the history of the last century through words.]]></content></entry><entry><title>Intended consequences</title><id>http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/2013/5/7/intended-consequences.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/2013/5/7/intended-consequences.html"/><author><name>Crossroads Cultural Center</name></author><published>2013-05-07T23:58:24Z</published><updated>2013-05-07T23:58:24Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[These remarks by <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2013/04/23/3743531.htm">John Milbank</a> are special case of a general phenomenon: all attempts at "liberating" the individual on the basis of a flawed liberal anthropology end up instead expanding the power of the state.]]></content></entry><entry><title>The myth of the inviolable self</title><id>http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/2013/5/4/the-myth-of-the-inviolable-self.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/2013/5/4/the-myth-of-the-inviolable-self.html"/><author><name>Crossroads Cultural Center</name></author><published>2013-05-04T18:47:28Z</published><updated>2013-05-04T18:47:28Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[An interesting essay by <a href="http://www.firstthings.com/article/2013/04/lena-dunhamrs-inviolable-self">Alan Jacobs</a>.<p></p>]]></content></entry><entry><title>Fundamental aspirations</title><id>http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/2013/4/26/fundamental-aspirations.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/2013/4/26/fundamental-aspirations.html"/><author><name>Crossroads Cultural Center</name></author><published>2013-04-26T20:20:43Z</published><updated>2013-04-26T20:20:43Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[Fr. Robert Barron writes on the Pope and the <a href="http://www.osv.com/tabid/7621/itemid/10828/Pope-Francis-take-on-the-religious-sense.aspx">Religious sense</a>.]]></content></entry><entry><title>Out of control</title><id>http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/2013/4/25/out-of-control.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/2013/4/25/out-of-control.html"/><author><name>Crossroads Cultural Center</name></author><published>2013-04-26T03:32:15Z</published><updated>2013-04-26T03:32:15Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[Over the last few decades it turned out that producing <a href="http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112858/abundance-really-solution-our-problems#">abundance</a> is easier than educating ourselves not to abuse it.]]></content></entry><entry><title>The benefits of faith?</title><id>http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/2013/4/21/the-benefits-of-faith.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/2013/4/21/the-benefits-of-faith.html"/><author><name>Crossroads Cultural Center</name></author><published>2013-04-21T20:59:42Z</published><updated>2013-04-21T20:59:42Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[Whereas obviously joining a religious community may well have beneficial side-effects, reducing Christianity to a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/opinion/sunday/luhrmann-why-going-to-church-is-good-for-you.html?ref=opinion&_r=0">placebo</a> is really a terrible insult. Human beings need more than psychological support.]]></content></entry><entry><title>For Man</title><id>http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/2013/4/12/for-man.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/blog/2013/4/12/for-man.html"/><author><name>Crossroads Cultural Center</name></author><published>2013-04-12T13:28:26Z</published><updated>2013-04-12T13:28:26Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.catholicworldreport.com/Item/2164/bergoglio_and_the_ultimate_questions.aspx#.UWgJetGYPLc">Fr. James Schall</a> on Card. Bergoglio's essay on Mons.Giussani.<p><br/></p>]]></content></entry></feed>