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

20 August 2009

Ciao! (for now...)

Dear HancAquam Readers, I am off for another adventure. . .the squirrels of Mississippi await my arrival. Then off to Houston before return...

19 August 2009

Catholics and health-care reform

I'm asked rather frequently these days how faithful Catholics should be thinking about health-care reform. We seem to be in a tight bin...

Mocking the Obama-icon

This vid drew my attention as a literary theorist. One staple of literary criticism is the process of digging out the symbols, signs, icons...

The red-herrings of the LCWR

Meeting recently in New Orleans, the LCWR issued a statement on the upcoming theological assessment by the CDF. Among the predictable &quo...

18 August 2009

Sample pages of my prayer book

WooHoo!!! Liguori Publications has sample pages of my prayer book up for view. Go here and then buy one! By the way, all royalties from the...

The joker behind the Joker

You really gotta love how politics produces the best ironies in the world! Remember that Obama-Joker poster that popped up in L.A. with &quo...

17 August 2009

Caffeine Quotes

"Liberalism that is not anchored in natural law, that has no framework of values by which to identify the true and the good -- a libera...

Young Catholics are really Protestants

NCReporter has an article up on a recent survey of younger Catholics and their attitudes about the Church. It's a sad story. Here'...

Of Mice and Friars. . .

I wrote to a friend recently, "So goes the plans of mice and friars. . ." Sometimes the itinerant life of a friar is exciting. Lo...

16 August 2009

Moving around at Mass

Every time I teach Western Theological Tradition at U.D., I am newly impressed with the Catholic tradition of sacramental theology. Where e...

15 August 2009

Simple Profession

Please pray for our brothers making simple profession this morning in Irving! Friars Peter Damian Marie Harris, Tan Leo-Hyacinth Do, Joseph ...

On hooligans and cookies

Had a great time last night with MightyMom, Subvet, and the Hooligans--who were not all THAT hooliganish. . .exceedingly cute but not too ho...

14 August 2009

What happens after we die?

Heather Barrett, OP attended the Lay Dominican retreat last Saturday. She writes to ask: "One question has occurred to me. One thing ...

12 August 2009

Congress: "chaotic, rapacious, solipsistic"

My poor brain is leaking. . . First, the NYT publishes an entire piece about the Catholic Church and never once mentions sexual scandal, or ...

11 August 2009

Someone didn't get the anti-Catholic memo at NYT

From the otherwise despicable NYT, "New nuns and Priests Seen Opting for Tradition" : A new study of Roman Catholic nuns and prie...

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