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 April 2010

Dei verbum: God's Self-revelation

The key to reading and understanding the documents of Vatican Two is reading and understanding the Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelatio...

16 April 2010

Coffee Bowl Browsing

That Icelandic volcano with the Klingon name is still spewing . If this keeps me from going home in June, I will be most disappointed. Why...

15 April 2010

Order your HancAquam post!

Here's your chance to order up a HancAquam post! When I started the blog five years ago, my only purpose was to post the texts of my...

Christian, brilliant, and probably teaching near you

A list of the 20 Most Brilliant Christian Professors in the U.S. The subject of my thesis, the Rev'd. John Polkinghorne is listed, s...

Coffee Bowl Browsing

And yet another reason for the U.S. to either ignore the U.N. entirely or withdraw: proposal to institute "eco-thought crimes." ...

14 April 2010

Truth spoken and done in the light

2nd Week of Easter (W): Reading Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP SS. Domenico e Sisto, Roma What does it mean to live under a spirit of salvatio...

13 April 2010

Cardinal Bertone is Mistaken

The AP is reporting on controversial remarks made by the Holy Father's right hand man, Crdl Bertone in Chile: Cardinal Tarcisio Berton...

Wow. . ."the public and obstinate betrayal of religious life"

Tom Peters, the American Papist , excerpts portions of a speech given by Archbishop Raymond Burke, the "Chief Justice" of the Chur...

Address change. . .

Since I will be visiting my family in Mississippi in about two months, I have changed the shipping address for my Amazon WISH LIST . So, i...

Without reservation we must proclaim the Risen Lord!

2nd Week of Easter (T): Readings Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP SS. Domenico e Sisto, Roma If there were ever a day in our lifetimes to believ...

12 April 2010

Yup, that's about right. . .

Michael Ramirez

Pulitzer Winner in Poerty

Not many HancAquam readers are into contemporary the way I am, but for those few out there, here's this year's winner and finalists...

Scuba Becky update

Good News: Scuba Becky is out of the hospital and already back at work. She seems to think that the bank where she works will self-destruc...

Destroying the smoking gun case of abuse out of Oakland

John Norton of the OSV does an excellent job of summarizing, in plain English, all the errors of the alleged "smoking gun" case o...

Question for Geeks

A techy question for my Geek Readers: Why is it that when I watch videos and enlarge them to full screen size, my mouse scrolling function...

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