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

09 January 2010

Questions...

Questions. .. 1). I recently saw "2012" and "The Road." Why do you think people, especially Christians, love these a...

08 January 2010

Fr. Bob's Philosophy Problem

So, you go to Fr. Bob with marital (!) problems and he reads the Wedding at Cana story to you. And even though you ask him good questions a...

07 January 2010

Coffee Bowl Browsing

[NB. Websites display ads relative to the geographic location of the accessed server. IOW, the ads I see here in Rome may not be the ads y...

06 January 2010

Love harder and more faithfully

[Repost from one year ago today. . .I've been pecking away on an Epiphany homily since Friday, but it won't come. The idea is eith...

05 January 2010

Infinitely Weird Fat Head!!

"Bob" left the following little puddle in one of the comboxes below. . . You infinitely weird Fat Head, [great opener, serious...

03 January 2010

Coffee Bowl Browsing (Mini-Edition)

Apparently, being tattooed, shirtless, and generally unkempt is required for mafia membership Zombie Rabbis gather on the beach at sundo...

02 January 2010

Coffee Bowl Browsing (Remembering the '00's Edition)

Apologies for the sparse posting over the last few days. . .around 11.2o p.m. New Year's Eve, lightening knocked our internet connection...

01 January 2010

Happy 2010!

Felice An no Nuovo ! Thank you all for your support: the hits, the comments, the emails, the books! Happy 2010. . .!

30 December 2009

Stories aren't enough!

As noted in a post below, there are some contemporary theologians and philosophers of religion who are challenging the dominance of what the...

29 December 2009

Without philosophy, all we have is story. . .

Let's say you are having martial problems. Being a good Catholic, you go to your pastor for some advice on how to improve communication...

Hooops

If I end up in Vienna next semester studying German. . .I'm still going to need English-language philosophy books in order to finish th...

Coffee Bowl Browsing

This is why you got no presents from Santa. . . Ten cases of Liberal Hypocrisy Ten cases of Conservative Hypocrisy (really, just nine ...

27 December 2009

God beyond Being?

In a post on the Incarnation below , I note that our ancestors in the faith struggled to express the Christian revelation in Greek philosoph...

Meditation on the Holy Families

Something to think about on this Holy Family Sunday. . . Trinitarian Family : Father, Son, Holy Spirit Holy Family : Jesus, Mary, Jose...

26 December 2009

The terrorist is a Muslim. . .why is the AP hiding the fact?

Anyone who spends even ten minutes a day reading the news understands why an overwhelming majority of Americans no longer trust the MSM. A...

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