http://japery.newpantagruel.com/ The cogitations and condemnations of Pantagrueliste Extraordinaire, Fr. Jape, S.J. en-us 2006-11-21T21:34:54+00:00 http://japery.newpantagruel.com/2006/11/21/reillyists_unite.php 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... Japery Fr. Gassalasca Jape, S. J. 2006-11-21T21:34:54+00:00 http://japery.newpantagruel.com/2006/11/21/austin_bramwell_responds.php 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... Japery Fr. Gassalasca Jape, S. J. 2006-11-21T13:53:15+00:00 http://japery.newpantagruel.com/2006/11/09/another_conservative_taxonomy.php 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... Japery Fr. Gassalasca Jape, S. J. 2006-11-09T16:19:18+00:00 http://japery.newpantagruel.com/2006/10/27/a_jape_in_wolfes_clothing.php 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... Japery Fr. Gassalasca Jape, S. J. 2006-10-27T18:09:44+00:00 http://japery.newpantagruel.com/2006/10/11/you_say_liturgy_i_say_lechery.php 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... Japery Fr. Gassalasca Jape, S. J. 2006-10-11T15:53:01+00:00 http://japery.newpantagruel.com/2006/09/26/stegall_against_walmart_and_cheap_soup.php 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... Japery Fr. Gassalasca Jape, S. J. 2006-09-26T22:36:39+00:00 http://japery.newpantagruel.com/2006/09/23/an_elegy_for_me.php How nice, a poem for me. Thank you, David!... Japery Fr. Gassalasca Jape, S. J. 2006-09-23T01:31:42+00:00 http://japery.newpantagruel.com/2006/09/13/islamicized_mass_in_milwaukee_and_the_latest_spengler.php 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... Japery Fr. Gassalasca Jape, S. J. 2006-09-13T19:14:10+00:00 http://japery.newpantagruel.com/2006/08/29/if_youre_intent_on_joining_the_chattering_classes_at_least_try_to_chatter_better.php 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... Japery Fr. Gassalasca Jape, S. J. 2006-08-29T16:02:39+00:00 http://japery.newpantagruel.com/2006/08/29/make_this_man_a_cardinal.php 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... Japery Fr. Gassalasca Jape, S. J. 2006-08-29T15:46:34+00:00 http://japery.newpantagruel.com/2006/08/15/have_it_your_way.php 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!... Japery Fr. Gassalasca Jape, S. J. 2006-08-15T17:17:33+00:00 http://japery.newpantagruel.com/2006/07/13/stegall_in_ct_on_suburbia.php 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... Japery Fr. Gassalasca Jape, S. J. 2006-07-13T16:51:08+00:00 http://japery.newpantagruel.com/2006/07/13/intellectual_diversity_is_conformity_conformity_is_freedom.php More interesting comments on Sacramone ... "Translation: I hate Kansas."... Japery Fr. Gassalasca Jape, S. J. 2006-07-13T15:22:58+00:00 http://japery.newpantagruel.com/2006/07/13/sacre_bleu_sacramoneluther_embraces_nihilism.php 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... Japery Fr. Gassalasca Jape, S. J. 2006-07-13T04:47:34+00:00 http://japery.newpantagruel.com/2006/07/11/the_chap.php I rather like these chaps.... Japery Fr. Gassalasca Jape, S. J. 2006-07-11T01:25:50+00:00