The Faith
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The faults of character which sometimes created people's difficulties were far less repellent to Caryll than those faults which make for success in this world. –from Maisie Ward's biography of Carryl Houselander I feel exactly the same way. Yet I have to consider whether there is a bit of envy in it.
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Progressive Ironies The past month or so has seen the deaths of two men associated with progressive Catholicism in this area. One was a priest, one was a deacon. I had a slight personal acquaintance with both of them, a bit more so with the deacon, and on the basis of that and of their…
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One never has time to read everything on the web that looks interesting. Well, that's almost a pointless thing to say, like observing that you can't drink all the water in a river. Anyway, one thing that I've thought looked pretty interesting but haven't ever read very much is a blog called Unequally Yoked, which Eve…
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Report on Anglican Developments I haven’t yet written about my experience with our local instance of the Anglican Ordinariate. I first mentioned it here on Easter Sunday (see this SNJ), shortly after it had come to my attention, and a great deal has happened since then. The first word I had, back in April, was…
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…I suddenly thought how there comes a time in one's religious experience when nothing can be added to, or subtracted from, what one understands as "belief." There it is, I tell myself, my 'belief,' minuscule though it may be in some eyes, it is oceanic in mine. —Ronald Blythe, Out of the Valley I'm not…
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I subscribe to a daily (weekdays) email from the Vatican News Service. It’s mostly a summary of what the Pope has said and done on that day. Sometimes I wish I hadn’t subscribed, because often they’re pretty substantial and can come to seem a burden in the middle of a busy day. More often, though,…
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The Da Vinci Code and the Concept of Fact I haven’t read The Da Vinci Code and don’t plan to see the movie, because by all accounts the book is dumb and the movie no better. Yet I’m fascinated by the phenomenon of its influence. If what I read about it is accurate, it’s another…
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What We Shall Be Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts. – Isaiah 6:5 Beloved, now are we the sons of…
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Reading Lear in the First Week of Easter Earlier in the week some train of thought led me to pick up King Lear, and I soon found myself reading it for the first time in thirty years or so. This would seem to be on the face of it not at all what one should…
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St. Edith Stein 7: What Only Remains I’ve ended my Lenten reading of St. Edith Stein with a novena to her which I found at the web site for the Association of Hebrew Catholics. The novena follows the saint’s last days, from the day she was taken from her convent until the day on which…
Light On Dark Water 