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

02 May 2009

A prayer for The Won's Supreme Court appt.

This prayer won't be in my book, but it is too good not to pass on: O Dark Gods of Politics, Thou who Dwell under Rocks, please visit u...

01 May 2009

Mille grazie! Grazie mille!

Though some of my more skeptical brothers seriously doubt this, this blog would exist if no one ever even looked at the WISH LIST . That rea...

A few titles from the upcoming prayer book

The book manuscript is slowly approaching its First Draft Form. . .almost ready to be sent to my lovely editor, Deb, at Liguori! I thought I...

30 April 2009

Coffee Bowl Browsing...

Home security tips for that summer vacation Coup at the U.N.! For all you science-geeks and science-geeks-wanna-be's (like me!) Isn...

Goofing off...

Toldjah it was a religion . . .His Immenseness Pope Gore I must be so proud. Why does this sort of thing drive me nuts? OK. . .my day doesn...

29 April 2009

$328,825 for a photo

Drudge is reporting that the Air Force One joyride over Manhattan--the one that Obama knew N.O.T.H.I.N.G. about--costs us $328, 825 . I sup...

28 April 2009

Painting Obama as the crucified Christ not intentional

Update on the painting of the Obamessiah: from Michael D'Antuono , the painter of the piece: "The idea of the piece, or the reactio...

27 April 2009

I'm not a conspiracy theorist but. . .

Now. . .if I were one of those tinfoil-hat-wearing-New World Order-ruled-by-alien-reptiles conspiracy types, I would be foaming at the mouth...

Glendon declines N.D. award

That bacon you smell frying is Fr. Jenkins of Notre Dame fame. . . Just announced: Mary Ann Glendon has declined the Laetare Medal awarded ...

26 April 2009

Obama is not the Anti-Christ. . .he's Christ himself

"The Truth" Nah. Not scary at all. Not even a little bit. What's the big deal? Oh, and here's the Obamessiah's Mary...

Books I've read about. . .(UPDATE)

As I scurried around my room looking for a prayer book this morning, it occurred to me that I haven't begged for books in a while. . .no...

A Dominican bear in Rome!

This will be me if I don't cut my hair and trim my beard very, very soon! H/T: The American Papist

24 April 2009

Coffee Bowl Browsing

Yet another reason to think that Super Nanny States are a bad idea Protestant sect lays illegit claim to apostolic succession (Ugly Vestme...

23 April 2009

The Crescat: Cannonball Blog Awards 2009

Truly, I am honored! HancAquam has been nominated for recognition by the 2009 Cannonball Blog Awards , "a blog award not dominated by t...

22 April 2009

Laptop of my future?

If and when (God forbid!) I need to get a new laptop, I've decided that it will be this one: Toshiba Satellite P305-S8904 (link) I'...

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