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I'm always crabby when I go to Sunday Mass. If I were the perfect Catholic, this would not be the case. But I am not the perfect Catholic. For one thing, I don't like doing anything on Sundays. For another, the homilies are always insipid and the music makes me want to throw things and hurt [...]
The Faith & the South The new issue of the St. Austin Review is hot off the press. This issue’s theme is “The Faith & the South”. Highlights include: John Devanny surveys Catholicism and the ‘Older Religiousness’ of the South. Adam Tate considers Southern Catholics and Protestant Bias in the light of Bishop John England’s 1839 debate with [...]
In three television films between 2004 and 2008, Bob Newhart played Judson, the director of an unusual urban library. The fictional Metropolitan Public Library contains secret chambers holding priceless artifacts, such as the Ark of the Covenant and King Arthur’s sword, Excalibur. To carry on the work of the library, Judson hires a young scholar, a [...]
Supposedly people are drawn to fiction that fills a need in their lives, so that lonely women read romance novels, and, as Dorothy L. Sayers’s Lord Peter Wimsey observed in The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (1928), “dull men in offices read detective stories.” Exceptions occur, so that men who have traveled a lot and who [...]
The first half of 2017 has seen the publication of books about growing up. They include: Mark Batterson, Play the Man: Becoming the Man God Created You to Be; William H. McRaven, Make Your Bed: Little Things that Can Change Your Life and Maybe the World; Ben Sasse, The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis and [...]
I am reading Flannery's O'Connor's letters. I was bored until her correspondence from 1955. Before then, she was writing to friends about money, book deals, things she was reading. But in 1955, she took up a correspondence with a woman from Atlanta, a Pagan pantheist / agnostic who is referred to as "Miss A." Suddenly Flannery [...]
Between December, 2007, and June, 2017, Model Railroader magazine has featured rock and roll legend Rod Stewart. Since December, 2010, those features have been cover stories, the magazine falling open at the centerfold to reveal stunning photographs of his model railroad. In his autobiography, Rod (2012), he subtitled his chapter on model railroading “In which [...]
Games. Always playing games. Filling up the mind with plotting, and our heart’s surge crested with the thrill. Our little games, so all-important to us in the apex of victory or the crush of defeat, so turbulent as the rush of adrenaline. We are making love with conflict. We love to choose our sides, for our [...]