19 April 2014

What do you and Pontius Pilate have in common?

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Why do Americans empathize with Pilate? Because he's just like us: postmodernist wienies .  Pilate is not bloodthirsty.  Nor i...
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Abysmal ignorance into execrable prose. . .

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David Bentley Hart -- one of the best Christian writers alive today -- shreds a silly post from some nobody secularist . . .fun, fun, fun....
18 April 2014

Good Friday from St Dominic's Parish, NOLA

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St Dominic's Good Friday Service starts at 3.00pm CDT. Here's the link to watch the live-stream. I'll be in The Box hearin...

Coffee Cup Browsing (Good Friday Edition)

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A 2012 Good Friday homily featuring W.H. Auden. . .  That Good Friday when I was within 20ft. of BXVI at St. Peter's.  Excellent ...
17 April 2014

More thanks for Easter

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Just in time for Easter. . . Books arrived today from Jenny K and Evandro M. . .many, many Mendicant Thanks to you both for visiting t...

Coffee Cup Browsing (Holy Week Edition)

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The forces of death lose in Colorado! Of course, they won't give up. Remember how they operate: one tiny step at a time. Flannery o...
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16 April 2014

Easter Mass. . .

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Father Michael gave me a choice of Masses to celebrate on Easter Sunday. . . I chose the 8.00am Mass.  I'm up early, so why no...

Coffee Cup Browsing

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Gym in D.C. = Church in the South . I knew it! I just knew it! Having Zilch-Zero-Nada to acclaim, B.O. campaigns on racial and sexual ...
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15 April 2014

Thanks and Easter Mass

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A few kind and generous souls have been peeking at the Wish List and sending books my way. . . Always appreciated! I will be cele...

Knee Doc Report

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Just got back from the Knee Doc. Verdict: moderate arthritis in my right knee, mild in my left. Doc shows me the x-rays, "Father, ...
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14 April 2014

Pastoral Responses to the New Atheism

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Dr John Cavadini, McGrath-Cavadini Director, Institute for Church Life, presented at the Symposium: Pastoral Issues in Science a...

No conflict btw Faith and Science

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A longish video on the false conflict between faith and science. Fr Robert Spitzer, S J, Magis Center of Reason and Faith , prese...
13 April 2014

Can we survive our fools?

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A great quote from Cicero: A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy ...
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Coffee Cup Browsing

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Younger priests prefer older Mass . . .well, if NDS is any indication, they prefer a reverent Mass w/o the clerical-egocentric goofiness...
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"Hosanna" then "Crucify"

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My traditional Palm Sunday homily. . .a tradition since 2007!   Palm Sunday 2014 Fr. Philip N. Powell, OP Lay Carmelites/Our Lady o...