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Good and Evil in Lviv, part II

Posted by Matthew Rarey on March 27, 2008

Ukraine has known much darkness. And the long, sinister night of the twentieth century continues to cast shadows deep and wide. At this unique university, however, God’s light shines brightly, showing how wonderful that culture is where minds and hearts are formed in Christ. [Read More]

Good and Evil in Lviv, part I

Posted by Matthew Rarey on March 26, 2008

With memories still slick from the worst blood-letting in history, followed by the less dramatic horrors of the Soviet “peace,” the modern-day evil I witnessed wasn’t the worst thing ever to have happened in the city of Lviv, western Ukraine. But it surely was the offspring of the grossly satanic events of the preceding century. In this neighborhood marred by old evils, a stodgy woman fumbling up the street precipitated a new nightmare. [Read More]

The Anatomy of Cruelty

Posted by Matthew Rarey on September 17, 2007

No man can create an animal, but history shows men terribly capable of making animals of themselves. To be fair to the lower orders of creation, however, they don't deserve to be grouped together with self-debased humans. While we can lower ourselves, smothering the spark of the divine that makes us human, animals cannot rise above their natures. Besides, some animals have exhibited a certain nobility that reminds us that one Creator made us all for each other’s mutual benefit. So it would be cruel to put Lassie or Robert E. Lee's horse Traveller in the same pen with disgraced football star Mike Vick, who cashed in civilization for savagery. [Read More]

An Old Soldier Who Hasn’t Faded

Posted by Matthew Rarey on June 14, 2007

"The first time I was here was in '41, for Roosevelt's inauguration," Lt. Gen. Edward Rowny reminisced as we walked through the lobby of a hotel in Northwest Washington. The blind man's hand was on my shoulder as I escorted him into a gray afternoon brightened by several glasses of wine over a lunch that was a bracing brush with history. [Read More]

Mass with Pat Buchanan and the King of Rwanda

Posted by Matthew Rarey on April 16, 2007

I live on Capitol Hill. And on Sunday mornings I walk to Mass, either to St. Joseph's on the Hill for convenience or, if I'm not too hung over, the earlier nine o'clock Tridentine Rite at Old St. Mary's in Chinatown where the congregants include Pat Buchanan (Does he own but one suit, dark and pin striped?) and the abdicated king of Rwanda. [Read More]

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