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I’m not sure how I got on the mailing list of the newsletter from the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at USC, but many of the brief articles reporting on the Institute’s activities and research are quite interesting. Take the one-page “Good Without God?” for example. The Institute’s director, Fr. James Heft, SM, has a conversation [...]
As has become customary, Fr. Peter Milward has written an appraisal of the contents of the new issue of the St. Austin Review. Also, as has become customary, I am publishing his comments on the Ink Desk: Comments on StAR 17.3, May-June 2017 "The World's a Stage, The Drama of Faith" By Peter Milward SJ [...]
Several years ago, I was repeatedly distracted by the idea of one-vs-many. It seemed to present itself in all sorts of contexts, the way something does when it demands admittance into our consciousness. I even wrote several posts on the subject, seeing the conflict (for that is what it was) in several different guises. When that [...]
There's a Life Magazine special issue out about Mary. At the end of the main article, the writer laments, "If only we had a simply human Mary, that would be enough." My reaction: We do have a simply human Mary. No orthodox Christian has ever believed or taught that Mary is anything other than human. So [...]
It is fitting that a day in late April, 2017, marked by alternating sunshine and thunderstorms should see Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s performance of Anton Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony in C Minor. From the first shimmering notes to the final crescendo, it was a triumph. The setting for this performance was the basilica of [...]
Recently a friend of mine asked me what I thought of Fr. Richard Rohr, and I dismissed him with some sort of comment such as, "Oh, Rohr's books are tea table twaddle." And, according to Dan Burke, there are, apparently, concerns about Rohr's orthodoxy. But, while researching something else on the internet, I came upon a link [...]
This story is a work of historical fiction, based on the Four Canonical Gospels of Holy Scripture, as well as additional information provided by historians such as Josephus, and legendary materials collected from antiquity. The final resolution is my own. *** I am not a monster. I am a man, made of flesh and blood, nerve [...]
Let us who are blind feel your face, the true Green Man, carved in the wood. But the green that you gave to the springtime, the green that you gave to the turning seasons of this world, the turning of the wheel would not give back to you. The trees which you made to blossom and [...]