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

04 April 2009

Conscience for me but not for thee

Obama Catholics in the Democratic Party continue to work hard to "reduce the number of abortions" by making them moral, legal, fre...

Why someTHINGS and not noTHINGS at all?

Way back a hundred years ago, I made a "D" in ECON 202. That's when I decided that perhaps International Banking wasn't t...

01 April 2009

Prayer!

Please pray for my poor laptop! Just this morning a vertical line appeared on the monitor. I asked one of our techie-friars about it. He a...

31 March 2009

Thanks & Remember

As always. . . . . .my deep appreciation and gratitude for the recent activity on the WISH LIST! I have been blessed with many arrivals of n...

No Garden, No Cross

Fifth Sunday of Lent: Jer 31:31-34; Heb 5:7-9; John 12:20-33 Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP Convento SS Domenico e Sisto, Roma Jesus is troubled...

Stats never lie, the Media usually do

Commenting on the post, More Condom Lies , reader Mark makes the following observations: And the condomaniacs get away with it because John ...

30 March 2009

Abortion is holy work: following our inner-Episcopalian

Chris Johnson of MCJ notes the recent selection of The Rev. Katherine Hancock Ragsdale as the president of the ill-named Episcopal Divinity ...

27 March 2009

With Dominic at Santa Sabina

Fr. Benedict, OP; Fr. Michael, OP; three young men from Notre Dame, and I went to Santa Sabina this morning. FYI: Santa Sabina is the &qu...

More Condom Lies

Diogenes gets it right...again! Simon says, The Pope distorts science [. . .] Some of us can remember when AIDS was not yet a problem, back ...

Reiki: Not Science, Not Christian

Glance around many of the Catholic retreat centers in the U.S. and you won't find a cross, a crucifix, a rosary, or even a tabernacle. ...

Two Summer classes at U.D.

I am teaching two second term summer courses at the University of Dallas: the sophomore core course, Western Theological Tradition, and a se...

25 March 2009

Being/Not-being: there is no question

4th Sunday of Lent: 2 Chr 36.14-16, 19-23; Eph 2.4-10; Jn 3.14-21 Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP Convento SS. Domenico e Sisto, Roma Have you gi...

23 March 2009

Homily Coming Soon!

Yes, there is a Sunday homily in the pipeline. . .it got weird, so some revision was necessary. . .and it is still a little strange.

22 March 2009

New Faith + Science posts

Three new posts at my faith + science blog: suppl(e)mental . Check 'em out!

20 March 2009

Questions about habits (Updated)

[NB. Thank you all for the great comments on this post! I believe that my initial assertion--habit-wearing can stir conversation and contr...

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