Catholic Stuff
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I recently read Vows, the title given by translator Tiina Nunnally to the first book in the tetralogy previously known as The Master of Hestviken, called in the new translation simply by the name of the main character, Olav Audunsson. From the book's brief Wikipedia entry it's not clear to me whether Undset gave titles to the
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I went to a traditional Latin Mass last Sunday. Three observations: (1) I prefer the Novus Ordo (assuming no gross abuses thereof). (2) Of the roughly 50 people who were there, by far the majority were no older than 40-ish. (3) Traditiones Custodes was a mistake. I've done my share of
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I read the other day on an Ordinariate forum that Church of England Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali has been received into the Catholic Church. Well, that's nice, I thought, but that was about the extent of my reaction. These crossovers happen now and again and are of course always welcome, but they are few and don't
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By an appropriate coincidence, on the same day that I did that last post the new issue of The Lamp arrived. It includes an essay of mine which discusses the development of the counter-culture of the 1960s toward the current culture war, and the post reiterates a point made in that piece: The essential feature
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My attempts to impose some kind of order and method on my reading never last, and the reason is usually that some stray impulse seizes me and I pick up a book that was not in line to be read, sometimes not even toward the end of that line but rather in the "someday" or
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I decided several years ago that I had had enough of intra-Catholic controversies, especially those surrounding and frequently caused by Pope Francis, and that I was going to start ignoring them. It seemed that I was just going to have to accept the fact that the Pope had renewed a conflict within the Church that
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I have the local library to thank for my having read this invigorating little book. They took it out of circulation (or rather, no doubt, non-circulation) and put it on the giveaway shelf, and I, having heard a few things about Eagleton that sounded interesting, took possession of it. And I'm glad I did. The
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However, I did try. –St. Katherine Drexel I've taken it out of context–the sentence doesn't actually end there. And I'm not 100% certain that it was St K.D. It was in one of the daily meditations in a fairly recent Magnificat, maybe in March. I'm pretty sure I wrote it down, with attribution, somewhere, and now
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I am for the time being a little obsessed with this novel. A few notes as I make my way through the second book, The Wife: Here's an excellent commentary on the novel from David Warren, a Canadian Catholic writer whose name I've seen here and there in publications like Touchstone (I think). I came across
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Praise the Lord, O my soul.O Lord my God, thou art become exceeding glorious; thou art clothed with majesty and honour.Thou deckest thyself with light as it were with a garment and spreadest out the heavens like a curtain.Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters and maketh the clouds his chariot, and walketh upon
Light On Dark Water 