I saw this due to the diligence of His Hermeneuticalness, Fr. Finigan.
Over at The Lion and the Cardinal we find this about an author who exerted an important influence on my young life: J.R.R. Tolkien.  This is a recollection from … Continue reading →

Well… bad news.
Now there is nothing but BSOD when I try to boot my main computer.  This is an Nvidia driver problem, I believe.  But I can’t get past the BSOD on start up.  I am ready to use a … Continue reading →

I didn’t write on this before, though I usually follow the intrepid Andrea Tornelli when he writes about liturgical things.  Still… this struck me as a little odd, for one, and I was really busy.
Have a look at this from … Continue reading →

As you know I have been having some rather serious computer problems. Last week I managed to back up some files when I had gotten it working for a while. Then it crashed again and I decided to … Continue reading →

From a friend:
“If you deliver the Ammonites into my power,” he said, “whoever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me when I return in triumph from the Ammonites shall belong to the LORD. I shall offer … Continue reading →

Here is something in passing, just so you know what is going on.
This, from the leftist America magazine published by the Jesuits.  It is a piece about the recent training conference in the Archdiocese of Westminster for priests to learn … Continue reading →

Such interesting things to try.

This comes from Catholic American Eyes in Korea and The Western Confucian:

The hospice movement in Korea is going strong. It is the care of the sick and the dying by people who have been trained to do this … Continue reading →

From The Four Quartets: "The Dry Salvages" by T.S. Eliot:
    It seems, as one becomes older, That the past has another pattern, and ceases to be a mere sequence— Or even development: the latter a partial fallacy Encouraged by … Continue reading →

On the grill.