From left to right around the table: Dale Ahlquist, Deacon Jack Sullivan, me, my son Colin, my wife Karen, our friend Jane Davies. I've known Deacon Jack Sullivan for many years. I got together with him again this past weekend, and he left with me a document that I'll be quoting from. It's an account of [...]
Downtown Eureka Springs, Arkansas I am writing this late at night in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, one of the most charming and bizarre places on Earth. And so I pass along a few observations, which may or may not be "eureka!" worthy ... Fidelity to our vocations is part of fidelity to Christ. Our identities are tied [...]
I have known some actors who have an extrinsic view of their careers. In other words, they see their success in show business as a kind of thing an actor acquires, an adornment, a sort of garment to be put on - and they seek with tireless energy the luck that will throw them that garment. [...]
There was a potential murder mystery client that I was hoping to land. He had worked with every other murder mystery company around, and at that time there were three or four others in St. Louis. They all told me the same thing, “The man is impossible to work for.” None of them lasted more than [...]
People don’t realize how important we are to freedom. The first thing a totalitarian society suppresses is its comedians. – Groucho Marx John Lennon said something similar, which was that nobody would ever take him seriously enough to try to assassinate him the way they assassinate politicians, because he and Yoko were just fools – just [...]
I am in the midst of reading a number of excellent books, including several by Eric Voegelin, a brilliant writer, who has been recommended to me before. Blog reader Marianne Bacon is the latest to suggest him – and I’m glad she did, as I’ve been devouring whatever ebooks I could find of his since last [...]
One of the readers of my latest post (It’s Not the Abuse Crisis – It’s the Neglect Crisis) somehow got it into his head that I was making the claim that only the liberals are to blame for the Sexual Abuse Crisis in the Church – which would be a pretty insane position for me to [...]
The Abuse Crisis in the Catholic Church, horrible as it is, is simply the flip side of the Neglect Crisis in the Catholic Church. What do I mean? I mean that Neglect is a form of Abuse, and for the past fifty years, bishops, priests and lay Catholics have been neglecting the Faith, and the Vatican [...]
There are two projects I've done with EWTN that, in my opinion, are the best things the Network has done, from a production and creative point of view. The first is our Father Brown movie, The Honor of Israel Gow. And the second is the show I mentioned the other day, Tolkien's "The Lord of the [...]
I just saw one of the very best things EWTN has ever done. "Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings: Elves, Hobbits and Men", hosted by Joseph Pearce and featuring yours truly as J. R. R. Tolkien, with artwork by Jef Murray, directed by Michael Masny, is a brilliant production. Sadly, if you didn't catch it or [...]
