"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
Unfortunately, it’s in Germany and thus written in German. OTOH, it’s a lot
easier to get tons of good info on St. Albert the Great if you read German
and ...
Well, it appears some people think “economics” is not a moral issue; that’s
why the Church shouldn’t speak on it, as this article, “Can Catholics Be
Capita...
(The second of a four-part interview.) TEV: How do you develop your
characters? And how often do they have real-life bases, and how much of that
do you cor...
Too often in our culture, accusations of bigotry -- of being anti-Catholic,
anti-black, anti-gay, what have you -- are themselves presented with so much
ha...
*cross-posted from **A Catholic View*
**
*Unfortunately, L'Oservatore Romano overlooks **the negative Catholic
Sereotypes that have been consistently repeat...
In the Carmelite calendar today is the feast of St Teresa of the Andes a
20th century Carmelite nun of deep spirituality who died at 19. There is a
short e...
Please kindly remember remember me in your prayers on July 14th, which will
serve as a day of decision of personal significance.
God bless you.
Kind regar...
I am but a few pages away from finishing Barbara Pym. I will squeeze them in
before bed and then tomorrow I will get to start a new book. I already have
it...
In an interview published in last Sunday’s New York Times magazine, U.S.
Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, revealed the purpose
for lega...
Some good friends of ours are hosting a 12-year-old orphan from Columbia for
the summer, so we here in the Darwin clan have all been doing our parts at
try...
I had this song in my head today. We all packed up early and spent most of it swimming and picnicking at the lake in honor of my Mom's birthday. Life has bee...
*Theology on Tap tomorrow evening in Washington, DC*
The Office of Young Adult Ministry of the Archdiocese of Washington is
holding its next Theology on Ta...
S-o-u-r-c-e-b-o-o-k-s. As in Sourcebooks, Inc., an independent book
publisher that recently announced it is thumbing its nose at e-book readers.
In an...
Genre fiction - as opposed to nonfiction, graphic novels and picture books -
lends itself to enjoyable Kindle reading because when you pick up a book of
fi...
I’ve written before about Shelby Foote’s literary tastes as expressed in his
letters to lifelong friend Walker Percy, but a recent reading of C. Stuart
Cha...
Woke up at 5:15 a.m. and couldn't get back to sleep. I spent 45 minutes
thinking that I should go back to sleep. I didn't go back to sleep. I've
been up fo...
[image: cover]In the comment section of our most recent The Millions Top Tenpost, I wrote that
*Olive Kitteridge*, this year's Pulitzer Prize-winning collec...
Karen Vanuska's review of Elaine Showalter's A Jury of Her Peers is now available at Critical Distance. If anyone else would like to consider in an extended ...
+JMJ+
By the Blood of a Lamb
An "Honourary" Divine Mercy Monday
It was no mean feat to start out hosting what could well have been described
as Discovery ...
Making New FriendsAt the ALA Conference.I think they were friends. Or maybe they were there to guard the merchandise. All those fabulous freebies. Well, ...
I just finished Christpher Buckley’s *Losing Mum and Pup*, his memoir of his
parent’s final days. It’s a wonderful book - not a Mommie Dearest piece of
w...
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...
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...
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 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...
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 ...
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...
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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