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 October 2009

The Lion, the Marine, and the NYT

A friar sent me this. . .along with a guarantee that I would love it. So true. A Harley rider is passing the zoo, when he sees a little g...

More books for the Angelicum!

As noted in an updated post below, my first try at begging books for the Angelicum library went exceedingly well. . .thanks to the always re...

A HancAquam Experiment

Leaving aside your dictionary for a moment. . .how do you define "information," "knowledge," "wisdom," and &qu...

16 October 2009

Coffee Bowl Browsing (Miscellany)

Abusing money for the sake of art A house for those owned by their pets Hunger is the mother of invention: recycling bread crumbs Re...

Heath-care reform & the Church

Rocco notes a recent NCRegister interview with Francis Cardinal George on health care reform. The good cardinal does an excellent job of s...

Addiction or Vice?

The French philosopher and cultural theorist, Michel Foucault, argued that one of the many effects of our modernist obsession with Reason an...

Nobel decadence

" This Nobel is about Political Decadence ," Daniel Henninger [. . .] The unanswered question at the center of this odd Nobel ...

15 October 2009

Coffee Bowl Browsing (Conspiracy Theory Edition)

As I have noted before, I'm a fan of conspiracy theories. (CT) Why, you ask? Conspiracy theories satisfy a basic human need to make se...

14 October 2009

Prison Dress Code for Mass?

Diogenes , always good for a snarky observation, offers this insight/question: The U.S. Bureau of Prisons applies the following restrictio...

Coffee Bowl Browsing (Ecumenical Edition)

A few Zen stories to boggle the mind (I mean, boggle the No-Mindedness) A Catholic guide for praying in the workplace Bible research t...

Books for the Angelicum library (Sold Out 2!)

And the other two are sold and shipped! All I can say is: Wow. . .thanks. . .and God bless! WOW! My thanks to the generous soul who pur...

Traveling Friar

I rec'd an odd request via email yesterday. . . "Father Powell, where have you been in the world? What countries?" OK. . ...

13 October 2009

Coffee Bowl Browsing

Heh. . . a bishop with a spine . . .who knew? My Ph.L. thesis subject: Rev'd Dr. John Polkinghorne, " God and Cosmology " (...

Why does your pastor avoid the culture wars?

Doug Giles of Big Hollywood gives us " 10 Reasons Why Pastors Avoid the Culture Wars. " He concludes, correctly: If the minist...

OP's Out in Force, Baby!!!

Catholic Nerds from the Angelicum attend Sunday's Canonization (L-R) Frs. Bernard (Malta), Yuri (Belarus), and Benedict (USA)

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