Quick Hits: Halloween, Hildegard, and Hugo Chavez

By Thomas V. Mirus ( bio - articles - email ) | Oct 29, 2018 | In Quick Hits

A few of the most interesting articles I’ve read online in recent weeks:

• Every year we get a spate of articles debating the Christian or pagan origins of Halloween, and this year Catholic World Report offers one of the most detailed I’ve read.
• Also at CWR: The musical legacy of Doctor of the Church St. Hildegard of Bingen.
• A young friar at Dominicana analyzes a Marian motet by Josquin des Prez.
• Some much-needed spiritual counsel in a politicized age: St. Benedict on avoiding the “zeal of bitterness”.
• What did Jesus mean by his words to Mary at Cana?
• Gene Epstein takes on the highly influential and overrated economist Joseph Stiglitz, who has endorsed multiple totalitarian regimes including that of Hugo Chavez.
• Helen Andrews offers a revisionist take on Bartolome de las Casas.
• The Atlantic reports that a surprising percent of Americans of all ages and ethnicities dislike political correctness.
• Young Catholic minds on college campuses all over the U.S. are being formed by the Thomistic Institute’s lectures.
• Fr. Dwight Longenecker criticizes the habit of treating the parish like a commodity.