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

16 June 2012

Where's your courage?

11th Sunday OT Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP St. Dominic Church, NOLA Think of courage: the strength of heart necessary to speak the truth...

15 June 2012

CHA strips B.O. of his Catholic fig leaf

Sr. Keehan of the Catholic Hospital Association has sent B.O. a letter withdrawing her organization's support for his attempt to use ...

Sisters to LCWR: "Politics is not faith"

The Religious Sisters of Mercy, a congregation of physicians, has issued a statement on the current dust-up between the LCWR and the Vatic...

14 June 2012

Wed Fat Report (Octave)

Weighed yesterday and forgot (again) to post the Wednesday Fat Report. . . After a week of being held down and force-fed by those Wiry ...

You had better get RIGHT with Jesus!

10th Week OT (Th) Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP St. Dominic Church, NOLA Many, many years ago, a good decade before I entered the Church, ...

13 June 2012

Rise from death and be holy

St. Anthony of Padua Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP St. Dominic Church, NOLA When first century Christians were first discovered by their p...

12 June 2012

A bishop confronts the LCWR/media "outrage"

Bishop Leonard Blair responds to the anti-Catholic hatred oozing out of the MSM and seeping into their coverage of the CDF's assessmen...

Salty and Shiny for the glory of God

10th Week OT (T) Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP St. Dominic Church, NOLA Are you feeling salty and bright this morning?! Yes, no, maybe? M...

11 June 2012

Coffee Cup Browsing

Preference cascade : the real American equivalent to Egypt's Arab Spring is just beginning . No. The bishops' Fortnight of Fr...

On being beautiful

St. Barnabas Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP St. Dominic Church, NOLA Every year, dozens of American magazines publish something like a top ...

Help with a translation

I leapt out of bed this a.m. at 4.30. And there was no coffee brewing downstairs. So I had to fix some and wait a whole three minutes fo...

10 June 2012

Audio link for this a.m.'s homily

Added an audio file link for the Corpus Christi homily. . . Corpus Christi P.S. Talking about food makes my Mississippi accent really...

God is dead. . .

"To one with faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible." St. Thomas Aquinas, OP ...

Sacramentum caritatis (with pork gravy!)

[NB. This homily has a history. I preached the first version on Corpus Christi 2005--my first Mass--at Holy Rosary Church in Houston, TX...

09 June 2012

Merry Christmas!

Aight. . .three more books arrived today from the Wish List . . .It's like Christmas! My thanks to Adam F. and Gretchen V. for thei...

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