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 February 2010

Lenten Reflection 3: the Divine HMO

“Those who are healthy do not need a physician, but the sick do. I have not come to call the righteous to repentance but sinners.” Jesus i...

Coffee Bowl Browsing

Dali Lama thrown out of the White House with the daily garbage? Stay classy, B.O. ! Despite the fact the suicide bomber in Austin, TX wa...

19 February 2010

Lenten Reflection 2: the hard way vs. the easy way

“This, rather, is the fasting that I wish: releasing those bound unjustly, untying the thongs of the yoke; Setting free the oppressed, break...

18 February 2010

Coffee Bowl Browsing

Technology and the Orwellian Age: high school uses student laptops for spying ! Finally. Heads are starting to roll over the U.N. ...

17 February 2010

Lenten Reflection 1: the Devil's pretty hooks

"What profit is there for one to gain the whole world yet lose or forfeit himself?” Few of us will be offered the chance to forfeit ...

Coffee Bowl Browsing

SSM proponents in CA misunderstanding religious opposition to their agenda. . .they seem to think that religious folks oppose SSM for no ot...

Daily meditations & the BDWLE

I'm going to make an effort this Lent to post a short, daily reflection on the Mass readings. I've tried this before and failed rat...

16 February 2010

Now is the day of salvation

Ash Wednesday 2010: Readings Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP SS. Domenico e Sisto, Roma We begin the Lenten season of 2010 with this declaratio...

This Ash Wednesday. . .declare war!

Fr. Z. (always a good read!) offers the indispensable service of translating the Latin prayers of the Church into English. Today, he offe...

15 February 2010

Against the Leaven of the Pharisees

6th Week OT (T): Readings Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP SS. Domenico e Sisto, Roma James, writing to “the twelve tribes in dispersion,” neatl...

Death is a vanity

6th Sunday OT: Readings Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP SS. Domenico e Sisto, Roma Catholics are rarely accused of practicing an efficient or s...

13 February 2010

Coffee Bowl Browsing

In a concerted effort to find something good to write about B.O. once and a while, I note t his courageous rebuttal of Chinese intimidation...

Sexual Abuse in the Public Schools

How many articles in the NYT have you read about this study : "According to a study she [Prof. Carol Shakeshaft of Hofstra] did of abu...

Angelicum snow

A snowy courtyard at the Angelicum yesterday. . . Pic credit: fra. Charles Morerod, OP Follow HancAquam ------------>

12 February 2010

Neve a Roma (pics)

The snow has stopped falling. . .but we have pics! Lots more pics here . H/T: fra. Albert Glade, OP Follow HancAquam ------------>

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