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

15 September 2012

Saber rattling in the Persian Gulf

Time for some serious prayer, folks! Things are getting sticky. . .errr. . .stickier in the Middle East, and we have the Apologizer-in-...

3 yrs in Rome not a waste

Finally! I'm going to get to put those three years in Rome to good use. . . . . .teaching Intro to Modern Philosophy at Notre Dame Se...

Condoms not food?

Her response, "That's right. There's too many of you and you might use up the resources I need for my vac-cay on the River...

Corded, wooden, 20 decade rosary???

[NB. Thank you all for the suggestions. I believe I've found my replacement rosary.] Snagged my habit rosary on my desk and broke t...

Mother of Sorrows: she knows the Way

Our Lady of Sorrows Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP St. Dominic Church, NOLA The day after we exalt the Holy Cross—that Roman device for t...

Coffee Cup Browsing

Pay close attention to para. 10 . . .it reveals why B.O. threw the American video-maker under the terrorist bus and why the media have cont...

14 September 2012

Is there a seraph serpent in your life?

Exaltation of the Holy Cross Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP St. Dominic Church, NOLA At the center of our faith, at the root of the Churc...

Lift High the Cross (A Sunday Homily)

[A Sunday homily for the Exaltation of the Holy Cross from 2008. . .this one has never been preached. Our Sunday Masses in Rome were celebr...

13 September 2012

"Sorry. . .people of America!"

At this moment. . .it is vitally important for Americans to remember that the terrorists who kill in the name of Islam do not represent ...

12 September 2012

Suffer well to be holy

23rd Week OT (W) Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP St. Dominic Church, NOLA We easily recognize Jesus' Sermon on the Mount. This is Luk...

Diagnosing our fears

Besides sweating away several gallons of fluid during the Issac power outage, I spent some time re-reading William Barrett's Irratio...

Coffee Cup Browsing

And our descent into the Abyss continues . . .can't say we weren't warned! Coming to the U.S.: your job or your faith . Your choi...

11 September 2012

Novena for Religous Liberty

Fr. Frederick L. Miller, Professor of Systematic Theology at Mount St. Mary Seminary in MD has written and published. . . A Novena to t...

On not forgetting that we have an Enemy

A 9/11 note from Instapundit : And here’s a passage from Lee Harris’s Civilization And Its Enemies. Forgetfulness occurs when those...

Interpreting the Bible

In our Intro to the Old Testament class this morning, we'll be reading and discussing the 1994 document of the Pontifical Biblical ...

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