Domine, da mihi hanc aquam!

"A [preacher] who does not love art, poetry, music and nature can be dangerous. Blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not incidental; they are necessarily reflected in his [preaching]." — BXVI

17 January 2009

Just another pro-abortion politician

Let's put to rest this notion that the Born Alive Protection Act was kind of devious GOP trick to force poor B.O. to vote against one of...

What!? No lashing out?! No cracking down?!

Imagine that! An article from the leftie-media about the Vatican that doesn't contain the words "crackdown," "lashes out...

Insanity: me & Italian Customs (Updated)

Update (09/27/10): PLEASE, help me understand why this post is getting hundreds of hits a week! If you found this post thru a search engin...

Challenge: why reduce but not outlaw?

A quick challenge to those who support the "reduce the numbers but don't outlaw" with regard to abortion: You hold that aborti...

16 January 2009

Done, doing, will be done. . .%$#@ posteitaliane

OK. . . The thesis outline is done and submitted. . .the project I'm proposing is WAYYYY too big for a 70 page thesis. . . The book prop...

15 January 2009

The Folly of a Pro-abortion Catholic

During the 2004 and 2008 Presidential campaigns, Kerry-Catholics and Obama-Catholics argued that Catholics could "in good conscience&qu...

Report: Apostolic Visitation of US seminaries (UPDATED)

[NB. The link to the actual report is now fixed.] In response to the sexual abuse scandals that hit the Church square-on in 2002, the Vatic...

14 January 2009

Stopping the Marian madness (Updates)

Question. . . I just read on the internet that the Holy Father is trying to curb claims about apparitions of the Blessed Mother. What do y...

13 January 2009

Land of Lost Books

Couple of emails asking about whether or not books purchased from Ye 'Ole Wish List have arrived yet. . . As far as I can tell, I'v...

Coming attractions. . .

. . .this week at HancAquam: A Dominican disputation: Is God dead? An outline for my Ph.L. thesis at suppl(e)mental . A quick look at the e...

Theosis: that we might become God

It is well past Christmas, but there's always a good reason to spice up the season with a wonderful essay on my favorite theological top...

11 January 2009

Never, Rarely, Always: Dominican Disputation (UPDATED)

In what is probably a doomed effort to tame my intemperate tongue and fiery typing-fingers, I have set myself on a course of re-learning and...

Unlearning what we never learned in the first place

While digging around the internet for a review of a book I'm using in my thesis, I found over at First Things, this wonderfully "on...

Religious Priests and Diocesan Priests

My post below on questions for those discerning a religious vocation has prompted more questions about the differences between "religio...

09 January 2009

Jews are pigs and apes

What you won't hear on CNN or read in the NYT. . . Jeffery Goldberg of the Atlantic interviewed Hamas leader, Nizar Rayyan: The questi...

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