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

08 May 2009

St Joseph Novena

An excellent novena to St. Joseph . . .offered in response to the upcoming scandal at Notre Dame on May 17th.

Chaput, science, DNC brownshirts, and motivation to buy me a book

Archbishop Charles Chaput's speech upon receiving the Becket Fund’s Canterbury Medal: Archbishop Chaput said this view of the value o...

07 May 2009

The next book?

In the past I've asked readers to suggest topics for blog posts. The topics suggested were usually quite good. So, now I'm asking r...

Needing literary relief!

Having sent my own creative writing project off to be edited and prepared for publication, I returned to philosophy and theology. . .I was n...

06 May 2009

Coffee Bowl Browsing

Obama's bizarre definition of "publicity": $330,000 publicity pics will not be published Fighting Leftist GroupThink in Can...

05 May 2009

Feminist outrage & the banality of abortion (UPDATED)

NB. I have edited this posted to eliminate my inflammatory language. A commenter correctly pointed out that my description of the author i...

Coffee Bowl browsing. . .

And yet even more eco-hypocrisy . . . Lots of Top Ten Lists Bishop Blair and friend of the CDF Theological Assessment team confront the LCWR...

Big "C" Catholic

Click over to Big "C" Catholic and welcome them to the Papist Blogosphere. . . They are re-posting installments of my piece, &quo...

04 May 2009

Come on, Jesus! Just tell us!

4th Week of Easter (T): Acts 11.19-26; John 10.22-30 Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP Convento SS Domenico e Sisto, Roma Those among the Jews who...

03 May 2009

Angels, Demons, Liars & Thieves

Excellent review of the movie adaptation of Angels and Demons . . .this is the latest piece of hateful flotsam to be produced by anti-Cathol...

Vote for Me!

Bring Hope and Change to sinners! Vote for HancAquam in The Crescat's 2009 Blog Awards ! HancAquam has been nominated in the following...

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&#...

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