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

27 November 2010

Cell Phone Recommendations

Since I will be in the U.S. for almost a year and half of that in parish ministry, I will need a cell phone. . . Any suggestions for a phon...

26 November 2010

Coffee Bowl Browsing

12 Myths Every Catholic Should Be Able to Answer . . .these are more misconceptions about Catholicism than they are myths. Secret meeti...

25 November 2010

Hurry up and wait

34th Week OT (F) Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP Ss. Domenico e Sisto, Roma Here we are at the end of November in Rome. It's cold and raini...

24 November 2010

The first Thanksgiving Day menu?

Every American knows the proper menu for Thanksgiving Day: turkey, cranberry sauce, cornbread stuffing, and pumpkin pie. But did you know ...

In praise of Americans and not giving a @#$%!

As an American living in Europe, I am often subjected to veiled and not-so-veiled remarks from Europeans about the cultural/political backwa...

23 November 2010

Coffee Bowl Browsing

WOW . . .apparently, North Korea has lost its mind . More on the amateurism of our current Betters: rep from the Taliban in peace talks i...

22 November 2010

A new assignment (UPDATED)

This just in. . . My provincial has assigned me to help out at St. Joseph's parish in Ponchatula, LA from Jan to June 2011. I'll...

All in or not at all

St Cecilia Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP Ss. Domenico e Sisto, Roma Anyone who lives in Rome understands what it means to take a risk. If the...

20 November 2010

OMG! The Pope says condoms are OK!!!

The Pelvic Obsessed Media are going bat crazy over the Pope's "changing his mind" on the morality of condom use . No such cha...

Coffee Bowl Browsing

Getting us used to the idea of shutting down websites by going after "copyright infringement." How long before some gov't ag...

19 November 2010

No thieves in the temple

33rd Week OT (Fri) Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP Ss. Domenico e Sisto, Roma Jesus enters the holy city and delivers what has come to be called...

16 November 2010

Coffee Bowl Browsing

Professional cheaters: custom essay writing companies do a booming business . I was once offered $300 in grad school to write a paper for ...

US Bishops break with tradition

The voting bishops of the USCCB dodged a huge P.R. bullet today. They elected Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York as president of their co...

15 November 2010

Sr. Mary Joseph of the Five Wounds gets frisked

Drudge Report caption: "The Terrorists Have Won!" Follow HancAquam ------------>

Believing is seeing

St Albert the Great Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP Ss Domenico e Sisto, Roma As students and professors learning and teaching in a Catholic uni...

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