In the capacious personal Index Locutionum Prohibitorum of William F. Buckley Jr., I suspect that most depressing entry was one that will be familiar to anyone who has been exposed to the Catholic liturgy in its contemporary, which is to say in its pop-populist, manifestation. I mean, of course, the chilling ten-word enjoinment: “Let us all give each other a sign of peace.”
That oleaginous hebdomadal injunction was possibly even more distasteful to Bill than another common offender, “Why don’t we skip drinks and go directly into dinner?”
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