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Tag Archives: dante
Lunch with Dante in Florence. The Poet comments on consistories.
Dante can provide wisdom on most of the troubles of our lives. His wisdom pops up just about anywhere and in timely fashion. Thus, a wise and respected friend was lunching in Florence in the shadow of the Duomo today … Read More
WDTPRS – 15th Ordinary Sunday: Too far right or too far left, we wind up in the ditch in the dark
This week, the 15th Ordinary Sunday in the Novus Ordo calendar, we have a good example of the dramatic difference between the old, Obsolete ICEL version we suffered with for decades, and the Latin with the Current ICEL version. The Collect … Read More
The Negative Power of Silence
Perhaps you have the same reaction that I have. One of the things that provokes in me the worst sort of anxiety is being told that something is up, but not being told what it is. For example, you are … Read More
Posted in Francis, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged dante, Divine Comedy, Ugolino
13 Comments
13 Comments
ESOLEN: The prelates of sodom – #sodoclericalism
A The Catholic Thing the scholar and translator of Dante’s Divine Comedy uses this most important of works to unpack a central issue in The Present Crisis. There are those today, such as highly tattooed gang of Team Francis, who work … Read More
Posted in Sin That Cries To Heaven
Tagged Anthony Esolen, dante, Divine Comedy, homosexuality, sodoclericalism
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7 Comments
“Not so fast!”, says the damned soul. “Amoris laetitia says,…”.
So this morning my phone goes “ding”. “What fresh hell is this!?”, quoth I, reaching. Indeed, it was “fresh hell”! At Messa in Latino a wag has posted a bit of Dantesque parody about an adulterous soul in Hell. A soul has … Read More
Anthony Esolen makes a point – with napalm
The brilliant Anthony Esolen (how I envy his prose) makes a point – with napalm – at the increasingly useful Crisis today. The post confirmed me in my desire never to be on his bad side. He begins… Don’t Let A Foolish … Read More
“O you who come to this abode of pain…”, thoughts on ‘Amoris laetitia’
Today at The Catholic Thing Robert Royal has a short and suggestive piece about sex and deception. Dante – Il Poeta – gives him a lift. Royal recounts teaching Dante’s Inferno, the first part of the Divine Comedy, to students. One of the … Read More
Posted in Hard-Identity Catholicism, One Man & One Woman
Tagged dante, Divine Comedy, Robert Royal
24 Comments
24 Comments
To a priest who learned the Traditional Mass and then quit because it was hard.
I have often written about how priests are never the same after having learned how to say the older, traditional form of Holy Mass in the Roman Rite. Many priests have related to me about how, once they learned, or … Read More
Posted in ¡Hagan lío!, Hard-Identity Catholicism, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Mail from priests
Tagged dante, Priests, TLM
21 Comments
21 Comments
Anthony Esolen under attack by his school, Domincan-run Providence College
I often direct you to the writings of Anthony Esolen, who contributes frequently to the increasingly-valuable Crisis. Esolen is a prof at Domincan-run Providence College. I saw this at Touchstone, where Esolen is an editor. If you have benefitted from the writings … Read More
Fr Jackson on Leo XIV has written to the SSPX: “I plead with you and ask you with all my heart: please turn back!”: “People in 1054 did not realize that a definitive rupture had taken place. They assumed the excommunications were simply another…”
