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“This blog is like a fusion of the Baroque ‘salon’ with its well-tuned harpsichord around which polite society gathered for entertainment and edification and, on the other hand, a Wild West “saloon” with its out-of-tune piano and swinging doors, where everyone has a gun and something to say. Nevertheless, we try to point our discussions back to what it is to be Catholic in this increasingly difficult age, to love God, and how to get to heaven.” – Fr. Z
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Category Archives: Just Too Cool
Comfort food
I was so shaken by my account of Hignett and the Evil Professor, that I had to seek comfort food. No Mac n Cheese for me, nosirree! Shanghai Juicy Buns! Grrrrrr…. platitude cookie.
I hate this book more than any other book ever published.
While visiting a priest friend, the mighty Fr. George Welzbacher of St. Paul, one of the 5 smartest men I know and owner of nearly every book ever written, I took my ease of an evening in a comfy chair … Read More
Practice makes perfect
This can be applied in some ways to the spiritual life. The acquisition of virtues is a long, arduous process. But once one has the habits which are virtues, they can appear to be easy. [wp_youtube]PpEeoYOB3Os[/wp_youtube]
UOMs UNITE!
His Hermeneuticalness Fr. Tim Finigan has a good explanation of the Seal of Confession over at his excellent blog. I’ll just drive you over there with this link: CLICK HERE NOW. I was particularly pleased with Fr. Finigan’s post because … Read More
Thanks to NCFishwrap for something! (Just for today, okay?)
This may shock you, but I don’t like the National Catholic Reporter… aka Fishwrap. Better… I don’t like what they do, what they write, what they print. I like my friend the nearly ubiquitous John Allen, but… for the rest … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Lighter fare
Tagged Alexander IV, Fishwrap, Gerelyn Hollingsworth, St. Clare of Assisi
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Many thank to Plurkers!
This comes from some fellow users of Plurk. Sniff… I am very grateful. What a nice surprise!
Opportunity has reached Endeavour!
We’ve lost poor Spirit, but intrepid little Opportunity keeps motoring along. NASA reports that Opportunity has after a 3 year portion of its already 8 year anabasis has crawled up to Endeavour crater, 14 miles in diameter. We should be … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Look! Up in the sky!
Tagged Mars Rover, NASA, Opportunity, Spirit, Zagnut
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Flash memory.
It’s not something you can plan for. How often do we consciously draw it in and say, “I’m going to file this away for later!” But it happens when we least expect it. Few things are as evocative as a … Read More
The Navy SEAL Foundation
I saw this in a tweet from my “Friend and Ally of Rome” Hugh Hewitt. He alerts us to the Navy SEAL Foundation, set up to help the families of Navy SEALs. God Bless the Navy SEALs and their families.
Fr. Briggs! Ad multos annos!
A friend of mine in England, Fr. Charles Briggs, P.P. of mighty Chislehurst in Kent, just celebrated his 25th Jubilee. I met Fr. Briggs through His Hermeneuticalness, Fr. Finigan. On the site of another friend, Fr. John Boyle, I saw … Read More
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