The Anchoress
Grabbed off of Fr. James Martin’s facebook wall: Read more
Grabbed off of Fr. James Martin’s facebook wall: Read more
Bernini’s Ecstasy of St. Teresa, in Santa Maria della Vittoria Church, Rome You’re going to like this one. And it has a St. Philip Neri connection, again, too! Also, check out a more modern saint with whom you may be unfamiliar, Alberto Hurtado. Read more
One of the books I’ll be trying to read while in Rome is John Henry Newman; Prayers, Verses and Devotions, from Ignatius Press. Just as it seems like St. Philip Neri, my Patron for this year, may have had a hand in making Rome a suddenly reality (when I discovered that our lodgings are very near his Oratory, I could almost hear him laughing), finding this book–in perfect condition–in the “used book” bin at church seemed like a gift, too.... Read more
No, that header is not about my mood just now (bad) or about what feels like a daily barrage of news that seems overloaded with change and short on hope. It’s a bit more transcendent than that, and it seems to me that a few deep breaths and a bit of transcendence is urgently called for, right about now. Read more
Marks ’10/Kris Snibble (Photosource) Readers may remember a post from the spring, featuring Mary Anne Marks, Harvard ’10, and her salutatory address, given in Latin, with not a notecard in sight. In this interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, you can feel the force of her focus; she is like a laser. The cry that the Church is a “dying, loser organization of sinners” echoes down the centuries; it rang out in Christ’s day, it rang out in Luther’s day, and... Read more
Via Instapundit, Ed Morrissey explains why the fishermen are mad at Obama: The White House and Lubchenco want an end to private commercial fishing and have taken steps to eliminate “freelancing,” for lack of a better term. Instead, they want to close the fisheries into “commodities markets” where the government essentially licenses fishermen and then allocates the catch based on a predetermined distribution plan. The “commodities markets” will kill many fishing-based jobs and essentially turn fishermen into government employees, and... Read more
Back in July I did one of my loud, obnoxious huff-and-puffs: Honestly, do I have to go to Rome and storm the press office of the Holy See, and sit the curia down and pull their hats off to smack them upside the head? Now, oddly–unimaginably–well…I’m going to Rome and will be visiting the press offices of the Holy See, to boot! And no, you smart-alecks, the picture above is not meant to indicate that my presence in Rome portends... Read more
Today, let’s talk about how the disastrous way Obama, Pelosi, Bloomberg and others reacted to Park51/Cordoba House opposition has now ended any chance for compromise or conciliation between the two camps. Resistance to a proposed Islamic cultural center and mosque two blocks from Ground Zero is not about bigotry or xenophobia; the demonstrated tolerance of Americans during the last nine years belies those unhelpful charges. Rather, the rancor is an amalgam; it is constructed of built-up feelings of anger, powerlessness,... Read more
Okay, too many tabs open, again, time for another linkfest! Linkfest, not Clinkfest! We’ll do sacred, then secular, then sacred again, and then we’ll just talk really goofy, and it won’t have anything to do with beer! And btw, my Tuesday Column is Up; talking today about how Obama, Pelosi et al have no credibility to speak on Park51/Cordoba House because they don’t know how to speak to their countrymen, at all. It’s that time of the year again, when... Read more
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