Disturber of the Peace

Disturber of the Peace

"Any questioning of the moral ideas that prevail ...is received with the utmost hostility. To attempt such an enterprise is to disturb the peace"
--H. L. Mencken

Almost-Pithy Punditry from a Predominantly Papist Perspective, Sponsored by Disturber of the Peace Institute, a Washington, DC Think Tank which does not exist

Responses are welcome, especially free offers of the Pultizer Prize, Cuban cigars, or single malt scotch:
dpinstitut@aol.com

E-mails from nitwits, nitpickers, loons, cranks, self-appointed censors, or lawyers will be promptly processed in our Oliver North Virtual Shredder.

This Site Adheres to the WELBORN PROTOCOL: "All correspondence is blogable unless you specifically request otherwise."

Click HERE to go to our Bullies 'N' Bozos web log for the latest news and updates on the New Know-Nothing Party, Nitwits of the Net, 'Hos of Babble-On, Net-Nazis, and other various and sundry Denizens of the Lunatic Fringe

Click HERE to go to The Lidless Eye Inquisition web blog, at which fellow Catholic apologeti-geeks and St. Blog's Parish members I. Shawn McElhinney, Chris Burgwald, Gregg the Obscure, F. John Loughnan, and the Parish's Canon lawyer Pete J. Vere of Envoy magazine (and yours truly) take on the Lunatic Fringe and Sieg Heil Wings of Catholic traditionalism.

Our Favorite Places in Cyberspace:

NEWS, ISSUES, AND COMMENTARIES

First Things ...Well-written and often scholarly monthly journal of contemporary political, cultural, and religious issues from an ecumenical and orthodox Judeo-Christian perspective

Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity ..."a Christian journal, conservative in doctrine and eclectic in content," written from Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox POVs

Townhall.com Columnists, a web site featuring the editorials and commentaries of over 60 conservative and libertarian pundits

Sean Hannity's Official Web Site ...The cyber-HQ of the popular talk radio host and one of our favorite conservative Catholic pundits

The American Chesterton Society ...Dedicated to the life and (often prophetic) writings of G. K. Chesterton, one of the sharpest minds and wittiest commentators of the early 1900s

The H. L. Mencken Page ...A site devoted to the Bard of Baltimore, one of the USA's most effective and wittiest newspaper columnists. Contains many articles and columns by and about Mencken

Keep up with what's going on in Christianity around the world: Check out The Christianity Today Web Log, set up by the leading national Evangelical journal

SATIRE & HUMOR

The Door ..."The world's pretty much only religious satire magazine" is wickedly funny

Catholic Humor ...A great collection of very funny (and occasionally irreverent) jokes, stories, and parodies for, by, and about Catholics

Official Dilbert Web Site ... Dilbert creator Scott Adams' very own! Excellent satire not only on the business world but on human nature in general

The Onion ...Easily the funniest news parody site on the web (warning: includes some occasional R-rated language)

SOME NOBLE & NOTEWORTHY
ST. BLOG'S PARISH
MEMBERS:

Mark Shea's BLOG: Catholic and Enjoying It! ...the popular writer and speaker holds forth daily on a variety of issues, in his own inimitable style

Catholic apologist I. Shawn McElhinney's Rerum Novarum

Lane Core's Blog from the Core News and Commentaries

Molly's Musings ...by "an opinionated conservative Catholic chica living in San Diego, California

John Betts' Just Your Average Catholic Guy

Bill Cork's Ut Unum Sint

Gerard Serafin's Catholic BLOG for Lovers

Fr. Jim Tucker's Dappled Things

Catholic book author Amy Welborn writes In Between Naps

The Mighty Barrister's Catholic Commentary On-line

Atheist to a Theist by Jeff Miller

<< # St. Blog's Parish ? >>

Archives

DPI Statement of Faith

Tuesday, November 01, 2005

ANNE RICE VISITS BLOG'S PARISH
Famed Novelist Making the Rounds at Catholic Blogs

During the past few weeks Catholic bloggers have been all abuzz in anticipation of Anne Rice's new novel Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt, which focuses on Jesus Christ's childhood (for more info about the novel and how and why it came to be written, go HERE and HERE), and was composed a few years after her recently publicized return to the Catholic Church in 1998 after a decades-long absence.

Of course, because Christ the Lord hasn't been released to the public until today most commentators, including Ms. Rice's co-religionists, are taking a wait-and-see attitude. (Hopefully, they'll be kinder to her than the Evangelicals in the Religious Right were to their co-religionist Harriett Miers.)

One of those taking that charitable (and only sane) approach is St. Blog's own Mark Shea, who expressed great interest in the book as well as some perhaps requisite caution:

"...it makes me a bit nervous when I read of a relatively new convert starting an ambitious series of novels that seek to get inside the psychology of our Lord. It is a trade hazard of writers that we can build idols out of characters. All the more dangerous when the character is our Lord. Pride makes it easy to mold him to our preferences and then worship the fictional Jesus rather than let him mold us to his as we worship the real Jesus."

One could not agree more, and Ms. Rice herself responded to his statements with grace, as Mark himself acknowledged by posting her reply HERE. However, a friend and long-time fan of Rice notes that...

"...it is only in reading all of her books, and in chronological order, can someone observe her religious 'search and discovery'. She uses her characters in different settings and time periods to explore her own ideas, beliefs and their origins.... She's gifted with the ability to take her journey and sell it to the masses, but it's her journey, using her characters to hash it out, shake it down, and examine it under a microscope.

"We should remember, too, that she is returning to a faith she was raised in. This isn't new territory to her, except in what it now means in her life. She went thru her rebellious stage. She went thru her discovery period. She's found what so many of us find in our later years, our roots. She's coming home.

"I think she means to stay."

So do we.

posted by The Curmudgeon at 12:01:00 PM

Comments:

Thank you for the kindly mentions. I grew up in a Roman Catholic environment in which Chesteron, Belloq and other Catholic writers lined the shelves. And true, this is not new territory for me. But anyone jumping into New Testament Scholarship today has to be fairly tough and ready for a fight. There isn't much consensus on anything. Christ the Lord has been received wonderfully by people of all faiths. That's now a matter of record. But some are still leery of it, simply not knowing what it is. Let me assure you this is the Jesus of faith in well researched First Century environment. I'm going to Holy Land for a few days next week, and then back home to write the second volume. Thanks again, and hope you all have a wonderful and blessed Christmas. Anne Rice, La Jolla, California.

# posted by

anneobrienrice@mac.com : 6:48 PM

car insurance quote canada
low cost car insurance online
free online car insurance quote
car insurance houston
compare car insurance rate
car insurance estimate
aarp car insurance
state farm car insurance
low cost car insurance
best car insurance
car insurance uk
best car insurance quote
cheap car insurance rate
state farm car insurance
car insurance group
cheap online car insurance quote
usaa car insurance
cheapest car insurance
car insurance price
aarp car insurance
low car insurance
progressive car insurance quote
washington car insurance
direct car insurance
low car insurance
general car insurance
geico car insurance
rental car insurance
tesco car insurance
online auto insurance quote

http://cheap-car-insurance.quickfreehost.com

Random Keyword: :)
car insurance dallas

# posted by

Anonymous : 7:08 PM

Sexy storie …
My 14-year-old sister Megan came bounding into the kitchen wearing her black bikini. I had little time to react before she jumped up and wrapped her arms and legs around me. She squealed loudly in my ear and I had to grab onto the counter to keep from falling over.
… I leaned down over her body and licked along her nipples once gain. I slowly dragged my tongue down her stomach and tickled her sides. She giggled and I laughed too. My sweet baby sis, still so ticklish. My sweet baby sis, who I was about to make love to.
I love lolitas !! and sex :)
Young lolita it is a best !!!
__________________
http://www.xxx-01.com - New Teen Tgp Site! Visit it and have fun! Enjoy it!
http://www.xxx-01.com/index3.html - Free Videos
I am not kidding) xxx-01.com - is super hot )

# posted by

Anonymous : 10:11 PM

# posted by

Anonymous : 5:27 AM