Friday, September 14, 2018

Euphemism & Bureaucracy: A Recipe for Scandal in the Church

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Quanta malignatus est inimicus in sancto! Any American Catholic with a pulse and a passing interest in Church news has become aware in the...
Thursday, June 28, 2018

Dante, Fortune, and the Universal Destination of Goods

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In Canto 7 of Dante's Inferno , the narrator and his guide, Virgil, descend deeper into Hell, encountering the avaricious and profligate...
Tuesday, June 5, 2018

Happy Feast of St. Boniface!

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Long-time readers of the blog will know that St. Boniface is very dear to me .  (He even gets a mention in the acknowledgement's of m...
Friday, April 27, 2018

Roy Campbell's "Toledo, July 1936"

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There is a scene in the film Shadowlands in which Joy Gresham recites to C. S. Lewis a poem she wrote which is narrated from Madrid during...
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Monday, April 16, 2018

Happy Feast of St. Bernadette Soubirous!

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Grant us, O merciful God, that with St. Bernadette, meek and humble, we may walk in the path of conversion, serve the poor and the...
Saturday, March 24, 2018

"Spring and Fall," by G. M. Hopkins

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Today we continue a series of poems begun earlier this year , in an effort to bring more poetry into our lives.  My first real introduction ...
Monday, March 19, 2018

Happy Solemnity of Joseph, Husband of Mary!

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God, our Father, You willed that St. Joseph, Spouse of the Virgin Mother of God, should adore his Redeemer in a humble stable a...