Category Archives: My View

Not for the weak of heart or stomach. The hideous truth.

CMR reports on the hideous truth. Vegetarians around the planet were horrified to learn today that the popular Thanksgiving dish for vegetarians called Tofurkey doesn’t actually derive from the vegetarian bean curd known as Tofu but from a very small … Read More →

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The Bronx is up and the Battery’s down

I am heading back to the place where the people “ride in a hole in the ground”. No… but wait… that is what they do here in London. In any event, back to NYC.

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Manhattan Sunday TLM and Mystic Monk Convivium

This coming Sunday is the last “green” Sunday after Pentecost.  Can it be true?  Advent begins the Sunday after. At Holy Innocents Church in Manhattan there will be a Mass at 10 am  in the Traditional Roman Rite (37th Street … Read More →

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QUAERITUR: thanksgiving tree during entrance procession

From a reader: What do you think about the following announcement at Mass: “At the rear of the church, please pick up a paper leaf and write on it what you are thankful for this year. We will put all … Read More →

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London: Going into Town

Yesterday I spent a glorious afternoon in the Victoria and Albert Museum in the galleries for the Medieval and Renaissance periods.  If you haven’t been, do go. Today I believe I must go to the Tate Britain.  I understand there … Read More →

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The Feeder Feed: Renaissance Siena edition

I was at the V and A today. The Sienese painter Bernardino Fungai (+c.1516) and his Virgin and Child with Two Saints gives us a nice Christological Goldfinch. I think this is a Renaissance variation of “I am as happy … Read More →

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SUDDEN IMPROMPTU PRECIPITOUS LONDON BLOGNIC TODAY 6:30 pm

This evening I will at the Buckingham Arms in Petty France, near St James’s Park tube station at 6:30 pm. My intention is to go this afternoon either to the V&A or the Tate Britain… both?… knowing myself one or … Read More →

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A priest wonders why there is a revival of exorcists; Fr. Z rants

Take a look at this, from CWN and then… well… just take a look. Prominent US priest bemused by exorcism conference Father Richard Vega, a priest of the Archdiocese of band president of the National Federation of Priests Councils, has … Read More →

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Tuesday: Going to London

For you Londoners or others who are around town today… finally it isn’t raining. I will meet a friend for lunch.  Then probably wend my way across town to the British Library for the exhibit on the English language. I … Read More →

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Day in London

Chilly windy rainy… then just windy. Then rainy again. Having sent my article for the paper, I headed into town to meet the wonderfully persistent Anna Arco of the UK’s best Catholic weekly, The Catholic Herald, for lunch. This isn’t … Read More →

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