"O God, as once the good angels humbled themselves to adore You appearing before them as a man, may man humbly adore You appearing before us as bread."
PONC is the business acronym for "Price Of Non-Conformance", which basically means putting a price-tag on a screw-up. We were impressed someone could make money saying things like "quality is free".
"Hobbes said that a state must have religion, and there are especially two kinds of citizens that a state can't afford to have: first, atheists and second, papists who are subjects of a foreign potentate." - Cardinal Ratzinger ____
"Christianity brought reverence for what is below us." - Goethe ____
"Your salvation is in the hands of God...There is no purely human knowledge of one's eternal destiny that can contain the infinitely greater certainty contained in your faith and hope through Christ our Lord." - EWTN Q&A ____
"It is a truism in the interpretation of Scripture that its spiritual message is disclosed only to those who bring to their reading a consciousness of their need for God and his mercy. Only they ‘get’ it and appreciate the urgency of the message. The others are all bewildered.” - Msgr. Herron
I'm not gay, I just falsely claim to be, and then complain about being taken
at my word. The etiquette of political correctness grows ever more complex.
Se...
“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you
will be judged, and the measure you give will be the measure you get. Why do
yo...
*In Oboedientia Veritatis*
Archbishop DiNoia's episcopal motto comes from 1 Peter 1:22:
Since you have purified yourselves by obedience to the truth for si...
In 1969 I bought a paperback titled *The Poem in Its Skin*, edited by Paul
Carroll. I found it in a department store, when such places still had book
depar...
New and updated posts on my recommended reading...Art and LiteratureBruce S. Thornton on the Odyssey of HomerStereotypist on the life of Flannery O'ConnorKat...
*The meek are promised much in a book I know,
But one grows weary turning cheek to blow.*
*(I forget the name of the poem these lines come from; I do rememb...
Making Babies: A Very Different Look at Natural Family Planning But another reason for NFP's allegedly high success rate is that couples who use it are prepa...
+IHS+
Hot Blood, Cool Heads
This being our anniversary, it's time to talk about sex.
When I was a newly-wed, I worked at a theater. One afternoon, as I wa...
Each week *Entertainment Weekly* reviews a small selection of popular new
books. Titles available for the Kindle reviewed in the July 10th issue
include:
...
Peter Wehner,"Our Sophist-in-Chief" (Commentary):
While I realize my efforts to decode Barack Obama may turn into a
never-ending task, I want to focus on ...
Al Kresta, whose afternoon show on Ave Maria Radio never disappoints, offers
some worthwhile thoughts, not on Michael Jackson himself but on the "Michael
J...
First of all, thanks to all of you who chimed in on the Mommy/Daughter Date
article over at Faith and Family Live. Such fun comments!
And second, I am just...
It may be difficult now to recall that when John Paul II died on April 2,
2005, there was no certainty about who would be chosen to be the next pope.
There...
Sometimes you run across an argument which strikes you as wrong in such a
way as to crystallize and clarify your thinking on a topic. Such a case, for
me, ...
And then after walking all day through a golden haze of humid warmth that
gathered about him like fine wet fleece, Valentine came to a great ridge of
out...
--1-- Off with the kids to do wedding registry stuff today. I hope we can all keep our tempers. It stuns me that the Zman cares so much about every little th...
Practically from the moment that *Jeff Tweedy* murmured the words "I am an
American aquarium drinker," the opening lyric of 2002's *Yankee Hotel
Foxtrot*, ...
Google Books does have the Borgnet Opera Omnia from the turn of the previous
century, and I did link to it. But the Alberti Magni E-Corpus had it first,
an...
Move day is Monday, so we're going to run silent, run deep for now. We will
try to get the Joseph O'Neill interview all set and pre-posed to run next
week,...
I'm outta here for a week. I'll have a post next Thursday for the weekend
activities but otherwise, you are on your own. Try not to wreck the 'Nati
while I...
I was AWOL yesterday because of a field trip we took at work. When I started
working at the library in January I had no idea we’d get to take field
trips. ...
I just got this latest email from Amazon:
We’re excited to announce that Kindle: Amazon's 6-inch Kindle is now only
$299. With this exciting new low price,...
We’ve got a time: 8:30 AM And a date: July 16 And a Room: The Harding Room
Digital issues — from ebooks to territorial rights — are the hottest topics
in p...
St. Isidore, Pray for Us!Just as the drama of the past weeks fades into the past...Rick's cell phone rung at 10:30 last night. Fire at the warehouse!!!I sta...
Writing to a correspondent this morning, I realized how little I've actually been able to share of some of my reflections. The question came up that if Jesus...
Our beloved pastor, Fr. John O'Holohan SJ, returned to Ireland after some 20
years as a missionary in the States, preceded by some 20 years as a
missionar...
The chosen topic couldn't be timelier. Forty years after the publication of
Pope Paul VI's *Populorum Progressio*, and following in the footsteps of his
...
One good thing about being an autodidact is that you sometimes discover
something really good only after you're old enough to appreciate it. For
example, B...
July 3, 2009
Our family is at the lake.
Driving north last night was such a relief from our last road trip heading
south through the plains of Middle Amer...
I've just discovered Fr. Deacon Daniel's Catholic Church Geek blog, an interesting look at many things Catholic from the point of view of a lively Byzantine-...
Just overworked and underpaid at the moment. I ain't complaining, though.
Bern made me and another fellow a 4th of July dinner consisting of standing
rib ...
The "book review" as we now know it is more an artifact of professionalized journalism than it is a form of literary criticism. While critical consideration ...
I love it that Stephen King is willing to experiment with new content
models. Do you remember The Plant, a serial novel King started writing and
releasing ...
A rapist or a murderer has a higher place in hell than someone who leads
little ones astray to false teaching, especially to false moral teaching,
for th...
From Dailymail: "A school told a child to remove a Christian cross she was
wearing even though it lets Sikh children wear bangles as part of their
religion.
*The Wimpling Hems of Manhattan*
I walked south on Third Ave during the nooner ensconced in the crowd as 54th
Street approached, speaking relativistically ...
Sometimes I can’t resist the temptation to play psychologist. But I do
wonder – what is it about the modern age that makes it fertile ground for
animal rig...
What, no blogging? What have you been doing - Tweeting your life away?
Well, yes. I am loving tweeting at @philalbinus quite a bit and writing
something ...
The Holy Spirit refreshes our memory of the Son’s revelation of the Father:
“My Father is always at work.” This, along with the promise of Christ, “You
wil...
What the graduates saw at Notre Dame was the current cultural argument, the
current Catholic compromise. The President of Notre Dame stood up and told
the...
I've decided to take an indefinite amount of time off from instructing the
ignorant - that is, from instructing myself (the ignorant) through all of
the in...
From the indispensable Laudator Temporis Acti, a glimpse at A.E. Housman's
silly side:
The Latin author Lucan
When bitten by a toucan,
Exclaimed in anguish...
Before:
*Fox Ascending*
The other day
I saw a fractal
oval white cloud
nailed to the bleached
blue sky like a day-
old fox corpse clinging
to a farmer's ...
I’m changing blogging gears. Patience please, people. Life changes, right?
Here you go – visit early and often, and bring your smart, insightful and
sensib...
Well, here we go again. Again.I should probably give a prize to those who
have been reading my blogs since 2001 - you certainly deserve it.Yes, that's
"blo...
I have been thinking about gift giving in Shakespeare.
There doesn't seem to be too much of it if I remember rightly.
What there is tends to be more insult...
">To whom much is given, much is required The following excerpt is just a taste of a real life story of faith in action. Breathless, I thought to email my co...
Here’s a story that demonstrates just how tolerant good liberals are:
Catherine Vogt, 14, is an Illinois 8th grader, the daughter of a liberal mom
and a co...
I came away with a mixed view. Rather than try to build up to a conclusion,
I'll just spit it out: she comes across as a tone-deaf, wide-eyed zealot.
She's...
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