The Japery2006-11-22T13:57:03ZThe cogitations and condemnations of Pantagrueliste Extraordinaire, Fr. Jape, S.J.tag:japery.newpantagruel.com,2006://5Movable TypeCopyright (c) 2006, Fr. Gassalasca Jape, S. J.Reillyists Unite!2006-11-22T13:57:03Z2006-11-21T21:34:54+00:00tag:japery.newpantagruel.com,2006://5.5872006-11-21T21:34:54ZAustin Bramwell wants me to know that he has awakened me from a dogmatic slumber, and this only to inform me that I am advocating a distorting ideology. Readers might forgive me if I confess that foregoing the pleasures of...Fr. Gassalasca Jape, S. J.jape@newpantagruel.comJapery
Austin Bramwell wants me to know that he has awakened me from a dogmatic slumber, and this only to inform me that I am advocating a distorting ideology. Readers might forgive me if I confess that foregoing the pleasures of...
Austin Bramwell Responds2006-11-21T14:04:40Z2006-11-21T13:53:15+00:00tag:japery.newpantagruel.com,2006://5.5862006-11-21T13:53:15ZAustin Bramwell has taken spirited exception to my critique of his recent essay "Good-Bye to All That" (which is now available on-line.) I shall, of course, have a few words to say in reply as weather, soul-saving duties, and the...Fr. Gassalasca Jape, S. J.jape@newpantagruel.comJapery
Austin Bramwell has taken spirited exception to my critique of his recent essay "Good-Bye to All That" (which is now available on-line.) I shall, of course, have a few words to say in reply as weather, soul-saving duties, and the...
Another Conservative Taxonomy2006-11-10T15:01:01Z2006-11-09T16:19:18+00:00tag:japery.newpantagruel.com,2006://5.5852006-11-09T16:19:18ZThe latest American Conservative will be of interest to many conservatives, especially following the woodshed experience of the GOP last Tuesday. Of particular note will be the long broadside against conservatism by former National Review trustee Austin Bramwell. Bramwell, you...Fr. Gassalasca Jape, S. J.jape@newpantagruel.comJapery
The latest American Conservative will be of interest to many conservatives, especially following the woodshed experience of the GOP last Tuesday. Of particular note will be the long broadside against conservatism by former National Review trustee Austin Bramwell. Bramwell, you...
A Jape In Wolfe's Clothing?2006-10-27T18:19:24Z2006-10-27T18:09:44+00:00tag:japery.newpantagruel.com,2006://5.5832006-10-27T18:09:44ZAlan Wolfe, writing in The New Republic about David Kuo's embarrasing book Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction: If theocracy is not a looming danger to our democracy, bathos might be. For every evangelical leader spewing hate, there...Fr. Gassalasca Jape, S. J.jape@newpantagruel.comJapery
Alan Wolfe, writing in The New Republic about David Kuo's embarrasing book Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction: If theocracy is not a looming danger to our democracy, bathos might be. For every evangelical leader spewing hate, there...
You say Liturgy, I say Lechery2006-10-11T16:14:24Z2006-10-11T15:53:01+00:00tag:japery.newpantagruel.com,2006://5.5822006-10-11T15:53:01ZHere is some noteworthy flotsam. Maggie Gallagher rebukes Rod Dreher and his crunchy legions for being big fakers: We have lots of choices in our society but we don't have the choice to be genuinely traditional, as far as I...Fr. Gassalasca Jape, S. J.jape@newpantagruel.comJapery
Here is some noteworthy flotsam. Maggie Gallagher rebukes Rod Dreher and his crunchy legions for being big fakers: We have lots of choices in our society but we don't have the choice to be genuinely traditional, as far as I...
Stegall Against Walmart and Cheap Soup2006-10-11T15:49:03Z2006-09-26T22:36:39+00:00tag:japery.newpantagruel.com,2006://5.5812006-09-26T22:36:39ZNo doubt to the annoy of the Con-Crunchy crowd, the demise of TNP leaves Mr. Stegall (and others) free to carry on their subversive insidiousness more freely in other fields. Stegall appears again in the newspaper of the much maligned...Fr. Gassalasca Jape, S. J.jape@newpantagruel.comJapery
No doubt to the annoy of the Con-Crunchy crowd, the demise of TNP leaves Mr. Stegall (and others) free to carry on their subversive insidiousness more freely in other fields. Stegall appears again in the newspaper of the much maligned...
An Elegy for Me2006-10-11T15:49:04Z2006-09-23T01:31:42+00:00tag:japery.newpantagruel.com,2006://5.5802006-09-23T01:31:42ZHow nice, a poem for me. Thank you, David!...Fr. Gassalasca Jape, S. J.jape@newpantagruel.comJapery
How nice, a poem for me. Thank you, David!...
Islamicized Mass in Milwaukee and the Latest Spengler2006-10-11T15:49:04Z2006-09-13T19:14:10+00:00tag:japery.newpantagruel.com,2006://5.5772006-09-13T19:14:10ZArchbishop Dolan's church recently held a "concert mass" -- Karl Jenkins' "The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace." A news report says "The theme suggests 'the armed man must be feared' and that people must seek peace across cultures." This...Fr. Gassalasca Jape, S. J.jape@newpantagruel.comJapery
Archbishop Dolan's church recently held a "concert mass" -- Karl Jenkins' "The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace." A news report says "The theme suggests 'the armed man must be feared' and that people must seek peace across cultures." This...
If You're Intent on Joining the Chattering Classes, At Least Try to Chatter Better2006-10-11T15:49:04Z2006-08-29T16:02:39+00:00tag:japery.newpantagruel.com,2006://5.5752006-08-29T16:02:39ZOnce in a while the Evangelical publication, Books & Culture, prints something that is unabashedly immersed in movement politics. When that happens, it is, to my recollection, always motivated by a more or less authentically conservative impulse against liberalizing theology...Fr. Gassalasca Jape, S. J.jape@newpantagruel.comJapery
Once in a while the Evangelical publication, Books & Culture, prints something that is unabashedly immersed in movement politics. When that happens, it is, to my recollection, always motivated by a more or less authentically conservative impulse against liberalizing theology...
Make this Man a Cardinal2006-10-11T15:49:04Z2006-08-29T15:46:34+00:00tag:japery.newpantagruel.com,2006://5.5742006-08-29T15:46:34ZGeorge Weigel, for this alone, should be given a red hat and charge over this redemptive institution he has proposed: the Index Canticorum Prohibitorum. Anyone caught inflicting the vile strains on the list would be subjected to the bastinado. In...Fr. Gassalasca Jape, S. J.jape@newpantagruel.comJapery
George Weigel, for this alone, should be given a red hat and charge over this redemptive institution he has proposed: the Index Canticorum Prohibitorum. Anyone caught inflicting the vile strains on the list would be subjected to the bastinado. In...
Have it Your Way2006-10-11T15:49:04Z2006-08-15T17:17:33+00:00tag:japery.newpantagruel.com,2006://5.5732006-08-15T17:17:33ZIt has been some time since I have been able to get a message off. The Cathedral’s flock of carrier pigeons has been decimated by bird flu, and besides, I have been off herding goats across the mountain pass. Bully!...Fr. Gassalasca Jape, S. J.jape@newpantagruel.comJapery
It has been some time since I have been able to get a message off. The Cathedral’s flock of carrier pigeons has been decimated by bird flu, and besides, I have been off herding goats across the mountain pass. Bully!...
Stegall in CT on Suburbia2006-10-11T15:49:04Z2006-07-13T16:51:08+00:00tag:japery.newpantagruel.com,2006://5.5712006-07-13T16:51:08ZMaybe this is the sort of thing that irks the Sacramone and Con-Crunchy types, lifted from Mr. Stegall's review of David Goetz's book, Death By Suburb: How to Keep the Suburbs from Killing Your Soul, a study in bourgeois honkey...Fr. Gassalasca Jape, S. J.jape@newpantagruel.comJapery
Maybe this is the sort of thing that irks the Sacramone and Con-Crunchy types, lifted from Mr. Stegall's review of David Goetz's book, Death By Suburb: How to Keep the Suburbs from Killing Your Soul, a study in bourgeois honkey...
Intellectual diversity is conformity. Conformity is freedom2006-10-11T15:49:04Z2006-07-13T15:22:58+00:00tag:japery.newpantagruel.com,2006://5.5702006-07-13T15:22:58ZMore interesting comments on Sacramone ... "Translation: I hate Kansas."...Fr. Gassalasca Jape, S. J.jape@newpantagruel.comJapery
More interesting comments on Sacramone ... "Translation: I hate Kansas."...
Sacré bleu! Sacramone/Luther Embraces Nihilism2006-10-11T15:49:04Z2006-07-13T04:47:34+00:00tag:japery.newpantagruel.com,2006://5.5692006-07-13T04:47:34ZSomeone let Anthony Sacramone, the guy who does the "Luther at the Movies" blog, post on FT's "On the Square." Straightaway he went after Public Enemy #1: the teeming hordes of Wendell Berry-influenced folk. Sacramone feels they are into abandoning...Fr. Gassalasca Jape, S. J.jape@newpantagruel.comJapery
Someone let Anthony Sacramone, the guy who does the "Luther at the Movies" blog, post on FT's "On the Square." Straightaway he went after Public Enemy #1: the teeming hordes of Wendell Berry-influenced folk. Sacramone feels they are into abandoning...
The Chap2006-10-11T15:49:04Z2006-07-11T01:25:50+00:00tag:japery.newpantagruel.com,2006://5.5682006-07-11T01:25:50ZI rather like these chaps....Fr. Gassalasca Jape, S. J.jape@newpantagruel.comJapery
I rather like these chaps....