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

12 March 2010

Dissent is the problem, not celibacy

Cardinal Schonborn stirred up a little controversy recently when he seemed to suggest that mandatory celibacy for priests was part of the se...

11 March 2010

Coffee Bowl Browsing

Losing credibility : they have no one to blame but themselves. Science properly done is always credible, if not always absolutely correct....

Quick updates

Mea culpa! I'm WAY behind on homily postings and "question time." Second and third Sunday of Lent homilies are still in the...

10 March 2010

Coffee Bowl Browsing

I wouldn't have stabbed her. . .but I would've considered it. This is one of my pet peeves . The devil is at work in the Vatic...

Coffee Bowl Browsing (Verbose Edition)

The banality of the Postmodern Mystic : "Americans seem to have done with mysticism what we’ve done with every other kind of human exp...

09 March 2010

Recommendations for a cell phone?

I'll be heading back to the U.S. mid-June, and I need a cell phone. Nothing fancy. No contracts. Just a simple phone to use in cas...

Venite Adoremus!

Great video about Eucharistic Adoration here at the Angelicum! The video features our own chaplain for English-speaking students, Fr. Bene...

The sacrifice of forgiveness

3rd Week of Lent: Readings Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP SS. Domenico e Sisto, Roma The young woman sitting in my office was recounting to me...

08 March 2010

O.P. sisters in Mosul, Iraq

Sr Donna Markham, O.P., the Prioress of the Adrian Dominicans, reports on the terrible situation of our Dominican Sisters in Iraq and the en...

Back

We're back up and running. . . Late Saturday evening, the proxy server that connects the priory network to the Vatican's main serv...

04 March 2010

New seminar at U.D.

Great news! Instead of teaching Western Theological Tradition at U.D. this summer, I will be teaching a seminar on Religion & Science...

Coffee Bowl Browsing

Can climate science restore its rep after the Global Warming Hoax? I hope so. Satanic sects working in the Vatican? Of course, there a...

Sabers UP!

Think of the deepest place in the Ole Confederacy and you think of the Magnolia State! Mississippi is also known for being the poorest, lea...

03 March 2010

Coffee Bowl Browsing (Smiley Edition)

Muslim preacher finds Christ in the Orthodox Church! (H/T: Mark Shea) Pride and Prejudice : Emoticon Edition . Pope Benedict XVI will...

More on Mary, Co-redemptrix

NB. The mention of the conference on the proposed Fifth Marian Dogma generated some emails. I thought I'd repost this piece from a yea...

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