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Elfdom in New England

2013-05-29T06:03:24-05:00

The blaze of the bonfire had ebbed to a low red flame, and the great pile of live coals born of it skipped and sparked among the ashes. I sat on one of several rude wooden benches, and as I sat I thoughtfully sucked my long pipe. Then, taking the curved stem from between my teeth [...]

Elfdom in New England2013-05-29T06:03:24-05:00

In Defense of Nonsense: A Plea

2013-05-28T01:51:58-05:00

It is tempting to ask what the planners of the revised Standard Core Curriculum were thinking when they devised its content. That might, however, exceed the planners' capacities. As it is, even normally progressive members of the nation's professoriate have voiced stern alarums about the repercussions that the proposed Curriculum may entail for the future of [...]

In Defense of Nonsense: A Plea2013-05-28T01:51:58-05:00

Sede Vacante

2013-03-06T03:20:41-06:00

While waiting for the train on the cold morning of February 28th, the following poem began to take shape. It seemed to me that the uncertain skies that day paralleled the uncertain time that lies ahead for the Church before the election of the next Pontiff.   Sede Vacante   Dawn paints the heavens Marian blue [...]

Sede Vacante2013-03-06T03:20:41-06:00

Christian Culture

2009-09-17T11:16:39-05:00

Modernity might be defined as the age when mankind tried to do without God for the first time. The effect on culture has been extraordinarily stimulating. From the Renaissance and Reformation, through the Baroque reaction, the Enlightenment and Romanticism, and the Modernist reaction, Western culture has flourished. Now however the impetus seems to have gone. Now [...]

Christian Culture2009-09-17T11:16:39-05:00
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