The Grandchildren
The only ever time I was in France was a few years ago while on my way to Poland with my wife. We changed planes at De Gaulle airport and sped away within an hour or so. Poland, I thought after a few...
View ArticlePogo’s Equation Proved Once Again, With Reference to Scripture
A fellow named Mark Shea has a blog called Catholic and Enjoying It. The title sums up something I’ve known for a long time about being a Catholic. It’s a lot of fun! It’s a lot of work, too,...
View ArticleThe Passion of Phill Kline
Yeah, I know, and I hope you do to, this guy Kline in Kansas is just another mad dog runaway prosecutor. ‘Cause of him George Tiller was martyred by some killer while he was at church “wushipin’ Gawd...
View ArticleThe One Percenters
(or) The Recent Bold Deeds of The Most Busy and Industrious Band of True Believers and Followers of the Religion Of Peace Not too long ago someone sought to prove a point, that being that most...
View ArticleDo Ya Think?
Yesterday I read a short article in a British paper: The Telegraph. The article was a report on a study conducted on the life, and the prospects for life, of Christianity in the Middle East. Those...
View ArticleThe New Dhimmitude
A Reflection on an Article by R.R. Reno “When people talk about religion in America they almost always mean Christianity. The desire of many on the left to restrict religious freedom reflects their...
View ArticleToday, April 24, 2016
A Ruined Augustinian Monastery in Cashel, Ireland Destroyed by Cromwell It is a cool afternoon here by the river; a steady wind from the north has been blowing downstream since mid-afternoon...
View ArticleJohn 11: 50
Here is a letter I have written to Fr. Robert Shanley, President of Providence College, and who is currently presidentially presiding over the very dignified and collegial lynching of a great...
View ArticleDead and Dying: Something for Lent
This is about two things; what used to happen and what I think is happening. I was very young when I attended my first wake; young enough so that all I remember of it is that I was in a forest of legs,...
View ArticleWHITE HEAT
One of my enduring movie memories is of the last scene of White Heat, a Cagney crime epic about an evil little monster; a guy who doesn’t care about anything except getting his, whatever he may think...
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