Monday, July 13, 2009

If you don't have the attentiveness to read this...

Don't worry - turns out you're perfectly normal, at least by today's standards.

Archbishop of Denver Charles Chaput, O.F.M., Cap. is as erudite a man as I have read in our day. He reminds me much of Abp. Fulton Sheen, but without the Dracula-like whooshing of the cape. But maybe he even does that, too. Primarily, I'd say their similarity lies in their ability to craft a piece of text to tell God's truth, tell it logically, tell it authoritatively, & tell it with gusto.

Click here for just such a piece by the Archbishop on the role & status of the news media in American society from the Archdiocese of Denver's newspaper, the Denver Catholic Herald.

Here's an excerpt: "Visual & electronic media... thrive on brevity, speed, change, urgency, variety & feelings. But thinking requires the opposite. Thinking takes time."

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