September 2016
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What would you do if you found, way out in the woods, a wrecked airplane containing a dead drug runner and four million dollars? Who would you be hurting if you just took the money home? The dead man had no moral right to the money, nor, probably, did anyone else involved in acquiring it.…
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The old Gaelic poem (in English) about "Christ in the stranger's guise" set to music (and presented with appropriate imagery). (Hat tip to Neo-neocon.)
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He sought no mystical revelation. It was enough for him to be aware of the Nunc Dimittis. The reference is to Ernest Dowson's Catholicism. The remark is by the editor, Mark Longaker, of a 1962 edition of Dowson's poems .
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The Burmese Harp, a 1956 movie directed by Kon Ichikawa, is considered a classic antiwar film, but as some reviewers have noted it’s more than that because it dwells on what we do when great suffering happens, how we keep our humanity. I somehow missed it when it arrived in the U.S. in the 1960s,…
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"Cliché" is not an adjective. How did this get started, anyway? Maybe they aren't accustomed to reading and don't hear the "d" in "clichéd".
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As many of you already know, my daughter after having had two miscarriages is now pregnant with a little girl who will be born in early October. The baby, Abigail, has a condition called Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia, which means that there is a hole in her diaphragm and currently her stomach, spleen, and parts of…
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Going through a pile of miscellaneous notes, I found this, which I had jotted down while poking around in the library at Loyola University in New Orleans. Fr. Hynes like to think of the laymen's retreats as one of the forces combating the religious slackening of our times. "The lack of faith has caused many…
Light On Dark Water 