Category: Catholicism

“What Is Literature?”

C. S. Lewis, who seems wiser the older I get, gave a series of lectures at Cambridge after transferring there from Oxford. These became An Essay on Criticism. As professor of Renaissance and Medieval Literature…

Today’s One-Liner (#329)

The calendar of the saints tells us that the more fervently and perfectly men and women imitate Christ, the more differentiated they become. –Ralph McInerny, I Alone Have Escaped to Tell You:  My Life and…

Reading: Woes and Wonders

Ah! how many lights have I not drawn from the works of our holy Father, St. John of the Cross! At the ages of seventeen and eighteen I had no other spiritual nourishment; later on,…

Today’s One-Liner (#328)

The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth. –Saint Thomas Aquinas, in Josef Pieper, The Human Wisdom of St. Thomas, #128

30 Years Ago Today…

Mev died. I received a beautiful correspondence from Peggy Mosher this evening. She shared about reading The Book of Mev second time. Her son Pete studied with me at SLU in 2001; years later I…

Simplify

For there are only three kinds of good. So if a thing is not virtuous, useful, or pleasant, it’s not really good. So fagetaboutit! Simplify your life by throwing out all the things you have…

Walking Wonders

 Man is Homo ambulans. This is part of his natural law, the law of reason. This endowment enables him to get to places about his home or to the top of Mount Ranier. Walking is…

Keep at It

If there is one thing I have learned from Mother Angelica and Father Fessio, two of the brightest stars in the Church today, it is that good ideas ought to be pursued, and then one…

Learn from the Saints

Look at the example given by saints in every walk of life. There is nothing that they have not done in order to love God and be his devoted followers.  –Saint Francis de Sales, Introduction to…