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

22 July 2011

Bruised, Stretched, & Picked Clean

Mary Magdalene Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP St Albert the Great Priory If I were to ask you to name the opposite of “being anxious,” you migh...

20 July 2011

Grazie, grazie. . .

Just a quick note to say Mille Grazie for the recent activity on the Wish List ! Every book helps keep me current in all thing philosophi...

19 July 2011

Commenters at NCR: "joyless people with no hope"?

Methinks that horrible screeching might be the "Spirit of Vatican Two" being exorcised from the Church. . . IF you have any doub...

Chaput to Philly!

Just announced on the Vatican's website: Il Santo Padre Benedetto XVI ha accettato la rinuncia al governo pastorale dell’arcidiocesi...

18 July 2011

Coffee Cup Browsing

Bureaucratic leeches : between 1975 and 2008, the number of faculty in the CA university system rose by 3.5%. In the same period, the numb...

16 July 2011

OP Laity Retreat

Every summer I offer a day-long retreat for the Dallas-area Dominican laity. And every summer, we have a great time! This summer, the top...

Coffee Cup Browsing (Humor Edition)

I'm tired of lying politicians ; self-absorbed celebrities ; impotent dictators (foreign & domestic); and zombie-idolaters . . .so,...

15 July 2011

When "diversity" becomes a religion. . .

This is why you should send your kids to a small, Catholic lib arts college like the University of Dallas: UC-San Diego is gutting several...

Mercy not sacrifice

St. Bonaventure Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP St. Albert the Great Priory Like the sniping political operatives that they are, the Pharisees a...

Coffee Cup Browsing

A Pastafarian (follower of the Flying Spaghetti Monster) wins the right to wear "religious headgear" in his DL photo. The gear? ...

12 July 2011

Poetries & Poets

This list of poetry types and representative poets is freely adapted from Kathryn VanSpanckeren's article, "Contemporary American...

Pointers on how to read a poem

The creative writing class is going well! Here's a handout I gave the budding poets this afternoon. . .just a quick & easy list of ...

Suspect arrested in Fr. Ed's murder

Jeremy Wayne Manieri , 31 has been arrested for the murder of Fr. Ed Everitt, OP. Manieri was the maintenance man for the property in Wavel...

Coffee Cup Browsing

Tolerant, freedom-loving Leftists at Chicago book fair vote to ban conservative books by Beck, Palin, etc. . .but not Adolf's Mein Kamp...

11 July 2011

R.I.P. (UPDATED)

The friars of the Southern Dominican Province learned this afternoon that our brother, Fr. Ed Everitt, OP was killed in what appears to be...

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