Do you remember the apostate bishop on the bus ride from hell to heaven in C.S.Lewis’ masterpiece The Great Divorce? He wallows in a sentimental spirituality mixed with a pompous intellectual vagueness that values ‘the spirit of inquiry’ instead of following Truth. In reply to the friend who asks him to repent and come to [...]

In viewing some of the photos from my ordination I’ve had several questions about my peculiar clerical garb. For those interested in questions of clerical haberdashery, I wear an Anglican style cassock as a reminder of my former incarnation in that most venerable, but now faded and jaded denomination. With that I wear a Roman [...]

Roving Medievalist is one of my favorite blogs. Who would have thought that someone in Toledo, Ohio of all places would have such a delightful and eccentric enthusiasm, and would create such a good looking blog for gandering at all things medieval. Check in for a daily dose of all things gothic and ecclesiastical. Saxon [...]

I told you the English had a good sense of humor…click here to get your own aristocratic title: My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is:The Most Honourable Reverend Father Dwight in the Middle of Frome Valley Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title

Eric Scheske of The Daily Eudemon writes a regular column about Catholic blogging for the excellent National Catholic Register. This week he comments on the lack of humor in Catholic blogs. The humor, he remarks, is either banal (pictures of people with silly hats on or babies with bowls os spaghetti upside down on their [...]

Fr Whinder was recognized in Rome as he walked down the Pio Borgo! Read all about it here. It also turns out that the excellent and ubiquitous priest is the curate (assistant priest) at Auntie Joanna’s parish in London. The Catholic Church is the true global village.