I Have to Sit Down
My post at the Register today is making me a little nervous, since so far two out of three responses are positive ones from atheists. Read more
My post at the Register today is making me a little nervous, since so far two out of three responses are positive ones from atheists. Read more
Roland Joffé’s new movie, There Be Dragons, is about half a good movie. What is good is so good that it makes the bad parts doubly frustrating. Let’s start with the good. The best part was, happily, Charlie Cox, who plays Opus Dei’s founder, Josemaria Escriva. Knowing very little about the actual man, I had none of the mental baggage that can trouble a fan (“That’s not how I pictured Mr. Tumnus!”). The Fr. Josemaria he portrays is a strong,... Read more
Well, I thought it was funny. Read more
Today at the Register, you can take a peek at the strange and delicious world of Holy Week in the house of Hebrew Catholics. I also have a short post set to go on Friday, but probably won’t put a link here, since I won’t be online, I should hope. Happy Triduum, everyone — see you on the other side! Read more
Just in case you forgot it was Lent: All Sin Is Disgusting over at the Register. Read more
On Friday, I was trying to remind you or myself of something, but I couldn’t remember what. There were many helpful suggestions — or, well, there were no helpful suggestions. But as it happens, right in the preparations for my first teenage birthday party — and here’s a hint for you parents: if you have seven fragile-looking, waifish, slender reed-type girls to feed, you need to know that four pounds of strawberries, five pounds of grapes, two enormous bags of... Read more
Of what, I have no idea. I was looking for an old draft, and found this post, titled, “Just a reminder” — but that was all I wrote. Reminder of what? Go to confession? Buy mayonnaise? Cancel the attack? Let out the dog? Turn out the light? Shear the sheep? Change the oil? Feed the fish? Light a single candle? Trim my toenails? Well, any suggestions would be appreciated, I guess. In the mean time, you can check out my... Read more
I’m making myself laugh today, anyway, over at The Register. Read more
Speaking of Dostoevsky, I just heard that my dear literature professor, Dr. Mary Mumbach, the former dean and co-founder of Thomas More College, and now dean and co-founder of The Erasmus Institute of Liberal Arts, has just been awarded the 2011 Russell Kirk Paideia Prize for Lifetime Contribution To Classical Education. I am absolutely delighted to see Dr. Mumbach being recognized. This is a woman who eat, drinks, and breathes literature, and who has poured her entire life into passing... Read more
My husband and I have started rereading The Brothers Karamazov, and are zipping through it the blinding pace of nearly 2-3 chapters per week. At this rate, we’ll have it finished before our kids borrow the book for college. I thought you guys might appreciate this passage, as the monk Fr. Zosima recounts a conversation with a famous doctor: ‘I love mankind,’ [the doctor] said, ‘but I marvel at myself: the more I love mankind in general, the less I... Read more
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