Patti Smith is known as the “godmother of punk,” but she always had higher goals than trying to make rock sound dangerous as the hippy era came to an end. I once almost lost a friendship because I suggested that her voice was not strong enough to sustain the passion of her angrier songs. “She’s too frail to be a punk Janis Joplin,” I said. “And too New Jersey.” Maybe that wasn’t fair, especially the part about New Jersey, but I do think she sounds better when, like Bob Dylan, she works with her vocal weaknesses, not against them. She’s sometimes called the female Bob Dylan, but Dylan is a songster whose lyrics are poetic, while Smith is a poet who also sings rock and roll. Because she’s not a natural singer, melancholy fits her tonal range, and when she goes for pretty, without erasing the edginess of her tone, she sounds downright sublime.
— Read on www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2015/01/the-theology-of-patti-smith
Category: HISTORY
The Teen Who Exposed a Professor’s Myth
The Internet has been buzzing about how discrimination against the Irish was a myth. All it took was a high schooler to prove them wrong.
— Read on www.thedailybeast.com/the-teen-who-exposed-a-professors-myth
I thought Beauty will save us? Why is this controversial author claiming otherwise?
Does it matter what we sing at Mass? – by Mary Farrow
Does it matter what we sing at Mass? – by Mary Farrow
— Read on www.pillarcatholic.com/does-it-matter-what-music-we-use/
Architectural History, the Common Good, and the Beautiful – Traditional Building
The current history of architecture undermines architecture’s essential role in serving the common good and offering beauty. Here I will discuss this history’s deficiencies, and in my next opinion piece I will offer an alternative to it.
— Read on www.traditionalbuilding.com/
(249) Dr. Samuel L. Blumenfeld – Public Education and Reading Reformer – YouTube
Dr. Samuel Blumenfeld,: a true hero of magnanimous importance for our time. After I listened to his claims, I cried, then I grieved, then I got angry and now I am in the process of remediating my Dyslexia, improving my skills and getting the word out so others may improve their reading, knowledge and power for personal freedom!
— Read on www.youtube.com/watch
Plinio Correa De Oliveira
Plinio Correa De Oliveira
— Read on www.pliniocorreadeoliveira.info/ENGLISH.asp
Annum Sacrum (May 25, 1899) | LEO XIII
Encyclical Annum Sacrum of Leo XIII, 25 May 1899
— Read on www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_25051899_annum-sacrum.html
Modern Catholic Dictionary – MODERNISM
Fr. Hardon’s Modern Catholic Dictionary
— Read on www.therealpresence.org/cgi-bin/getdefinition.pl