Ask the Good Sisters
Would the re-sacralization of the priesthood pull the Church back from her work with the poor and the friendless? Would we become a house of self-regarding bourgeois pietism? Well, seek out for yourself a slum…
Tag: Paul Mankowski
Today’s One-Liner (#185)
We had many mutual friends while he was studying at Harvard and I was working in Boston, but I think our first face-to-face meeting was in jail in Brookline, Massachusetts, after we had both been…
Don’t Take Everybody to Be Your Friend
We see the same salmon-cream-lilac obtuseness when Lefties try to talk religion. They live and move and have their being in a secular elite culture that has nothing but disdain for Christianity and Christians; at…
Recent Reading
Sohrab Ahmari, The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ Wendell Berry, Blessed are the Peacemakers: Christ’s Teachings of Love, Compassion, and Forgiveness…
Today’s One-Liner (#110)
The temple of truth has never suffered so much from the woodpecker on the outside as from the termites within. –Vance Havner, quoted in Karen Hall, The Sound of Silence: The Life and Canceling of…