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We have been blessed over the years to enjoy Fr. Milward's critique of the contents of each new issue of the St. Austin Review and to publish his comments here on the Ink Desk. I'm doing so again but feel it necessary to defend some of our contributors from what I take to be Fr. Milward's misreading [...]
I've received a very good e-mail asking about the condemnation of the Jesuits and their practice of equivocation by the Porter in Macbeth. Here's my response: Like you, I was also a little disturbed by the Porter's seemingly unequivocal condemnation of equivocation and of the Jesuits for practicing it. It does seem to grate with the [...]
I've received an e-mail from a faithful Catholic in Maine who is despondent at his "theological modernist" pastor "who appears to loathe tradition" and is "as liturgically unorthodox as he can be". He also laments the shrinking congregation in his parish. Here's my response: Thanks for your heart-wrenching e-mail. Unfortunately I don't think that I can tell you [...]
Tennessee Shakespeare Company’s production of All’s Well That Ends Well this past December was like an exquisite diamond necklace in which every gem is perfectly placed. Director Dan McCleary’s concept of a fairytale setting inspired by the art of Maxwell Parrish was visually stunning; the elegant set structure which distinctly evoked Parrish’s paintings worked in total [...]
I've received an e-mail asking for a list of good books to help inoculate vulnerable young people from the contagiously infectious nonsense of atheism and also asking for a good place to start with the reading of Chesterton. Here's my reply: It's easy to prick the atheist bubble because the arguments used by the atheists, particularly the so-called [...]
With presidential primaries occurring and the incumbent retiring, it is a good time to study a particular presidential speech, one delivered on the 17th of January. A short speech, it took around fifteen minutes for the President to deliver. A part commentators seem to have missed requires close attention: [There] has been the technological revolution [...]
Recently, I had the third medical scare within a six-months period. I had to notice the increase in frequency. After all, it had become embarrassing to ask my friends to pray for me so often. “Is God trying to tell you something?” asked a friend after the last scare. Well, maybe. Or—as my doctor said when [...]
There is a story about one of the American Founders whom everyone respected: he said very little, and most imputed his reticence to wisdom. Some, including the teller of the anecdote, wondered whether it were not because the man had nothing wise to say - which itself seems a prudent course of action. For in either [...]