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

31 October 2009

Mini-Coffee Bowl Browsing (Scary Edition)

No, the Pope has NOT condemned Halloween ! Is Britain sick of the "American cult of Halloween"? No, but Damian Thompson is! ...

30 October 2009

Catholic $$$ for anti-Catholic groups?

Once again it's that time of year to shine a little light on the CCHD. A collection will be taken this Sunday to support the activities...

Why the delay in publishing the Apostolic Constitution?

The National Catholic Register is reporting. . . Celibacy Issue Holds Up Apostolic Constitution by EDWARD PENTIN Thursday, October 29,...

29 October 2009

How many trees must die for Obamacare?

Just read on Drudge that the PelosiCare bill is 1,990 pages long! Let's see. . . 435 members of the House 100 members of the Sentat...

National Youth Sunday will be Christian this year

Anna Arco of the Catholic Herald draws out attention to National Youth Sunday 2009: Witness to Hope . Noting the failure of last year...

28 October 2009

Urinating on Christ

A reader asks that I comment on a recent episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm during which one of the characters urinates on a painting of Chris...

I don't think he likes Armstrong's new book. . .

A review of Karen Armstrong's new book, The Case for God . It is a rare occasion that I find it difficult to point out any redeeming...

The terms of religious life explained

Recent developments in Rome and Canterbury and the scandalous pro-abortion activities of a Dominican sister have raised a number of question...

27 October 2009

Catholics are too stupid to get it

Bishop Donald Trautman thinks Catholics are too stupid to understand most of the new English translation of the Roman Missal: "The v...

Choose to hope

30th Week OT (T): Readings Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP SS. Domenico e Sisto, Roma Sometimes planted seeds die in the ground. Sometimes ...

26 October 2009

Sr. Quinn and canon law

Canon lawyer, Ed Peters outlines a few possible canonical responses to Dominican sister Donna Quinn's formal and material cooperation w...

Faith No More

Christopher Hitchens on "What I have learned from debating religious people around the world": "[Pastor Doug] Wilson isn...

25 October 2009

Insomnia, or On the use of Greek pastries in the Crimean War

Ugh. I woke up this morning at 3.00am and couldn't go back to sleep, so I got up, got some coffee and fired up Ye Ole Laptop for some ...

More Anglican questions. . .*

1). Any guesses about the title of the apostolic constitution? Sure. How about Tiberis Nare ? (Now we wait for all the picky Latinists t...

24 October 2009

A Parable

A passenger jet carrying about 250 people is forced by a hurricane to crash land on a remote island.* Most of the passengers and the fligh...

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