The other day I visited Fr. Sherbrooke at St. Patrick’s on Soho Square.
Today I receive an e-mail from one of the staffers there.  It is a good cause, so I want to pass it on and make it visible.
Dear Fr … Continue reading →

I will be off to Eastbourne to meet His Hermeneuticalness himself, Fr. Finigan, as well as excellent PP of Chistlehurst, Fr. Briggs, and the lofty PP of St. Mary Magdalen in Brighton, Fr. Blake! I am not sure if … Continue reading →

UPDATE: I received from a reader a full translation of Cardinal Zen’s letter.  There is also the whole Chinese text.
Many thanks to "Dor Dor".
Click HERE.
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The gentlemanly Sandro Magister has a piece about the problems stemming from mistranslations of the … Continue reading →

From a reader:
This is an email (copied/ pasted) that I received from Fr. Joseph Fessio, S.J. earlier today.  Could you ask your readers to pray for Fr. Fessio and for the Ave Maria University (Naples, FL)  community?  Thank you very … Continue reading →

Time for a pint and a rest. Back at Seven Dials.
And then some Chinese! Beijing style dry fried beef in spicy sour sauce.

This sprawlng warren is full of treasures.
Here are some images for a friend.

A little notalgia for an old classic.
Where the famed show was filmed in part. 65 Eaton Place in Belgravia.
Sadly with scafolding.
Since I was in the area I thought I would locate it!

I am seated waiting for a lunchtime Proms concert. There will choral music of Henry VIII, Fayrfax, Cornysh, Sampson, Taverner, Tallis & Ludford. The Cardinall’s Musick performs. It was a spur of the moment decision. Listen to … Continue reading →

I will be in central London this afternoon, probably in some museum or other.  FWIW.
Perhaps a pint will be found when the museum closes or I have seen enough!
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A friend wrote asking about a good source for purchasing high quality mantillas.
Help!

The summers of my youth were intense rites of watching minor league ball games with my grandfather, bare-backed horses, swimming, crackling buzzing nights with chess pieces and a short-wave radio over the sound of distant trains.  Summers were given to … Continue reading →

O City city, I can sometimes hear Beside a public bar in Lower Thames Street, The pleasant whining of a mandoline … Continue reading →