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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: My View
The Feeder Feed: ravenous Grosbeak edition
I mentioned in yesterday’s Feeder Feed that the birds were eating like made. Many of them are starting to gear up for migration. Some are going to nest. Here is a shot of what is going on with Red-Breasted Grosbeaks, … Read More
The Feeder Feed: “Wow… look at the colors” edition
I haven’t posted about the feeder recently. Before any other shots, I caught this little Indigo Bunting on the Z-Cam today. A very wet oriole, not content with its usual feast on grape jelly, went after the suet cage. The … Read More
SALE alert! Benedict XVI’s vol 1 of Jesus of Nazareth
When I was writing a response to an email query, I looked up a link for Pope Benedict XVI’s book Jesus of Nazareth (Vol. 1). I found that – at the time of this writing – it is on sale … Read More
Video tour through the famous Loome Theological Bookseller in Minnesota
The other day I had a trip to one of the most tantalizing places I know … Loome Theological Bookseller in Stillwater, MN. Allow me to give you a little video tour of the place! As you can see they … Read More
The Feeder Feed: Oriole edition
A different way to present the feeder: I still need to figure out the settings on the camera so that I don’t have to convert the video to something I can post easily using the Podpress plugin for WordPress. Anyone … Read More
The Feeder Feed and Penjing Report
Another dimension of the feeder…. Mr. Grosbeak paying attention to junior. Please help feed the birds. They are on short commons right now. PENJING REPORT Some first aid followed by benign neglect have served to bring Penjing back from the … Read More
The Met: Cloisters edition
Did you know that The Cloisters provides air conditioning? Here is a detail of a Spanish altarpiece of the late 15th c. Theodosius arriving at Ephesus, in a series about The Seven Sleepers from Rouen about 1200. If only … … Read More
FINAL: Saturday morning 10 JULY Manhattan BLOGNIC
I have found a place for the blognic for Saturday morning. 9:30-11:30 am (I may get there a little early)Think Coffee248 Mercer Street (between 3rd and 4th Streets) New York, NY They have three locations so be sure to go … Read More
FINAL! BLOGNIC 7 July – NYC, Manhattan 7 pm
7 July 2007 was the day Pope Benedict released the text of the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum (though it went into force on 14 September). We will have a blognic on the evening of Wednesday 7 July. I will celebrate … Read More
The Feeder Feed: sacred arts edition
The Feeder Feed finds me again at the Metropolitan Museum… the air-conditioned Metropolitan. Eucharistic Dove in gilded copper with enamel and glass beads from Limoges from 1215-35. This would have hung over the altar. There is a tear shaped door … Read More
WVC on Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage 2026… *sigh*… Vatican Bars Annual TLM Pilgrimage from ENTERING St. Peter’s Basilica: “To add to Fr. Kelly’s post, Diane Montagna has posted even more information. Trying to blame the pilgrims and the…”
