Lessons from the Carnage | Video and Audio
Lectures on what we might learn from the carnage of the 20th Century. These lectures took place on Monday, November…
Word of the Day: MARK
Word of the Day: MARK Today is the feast day of Saint Mark, the evangelist whose sentences, in rough to-the-point…
Word of the Day: DISCIPLE
Word of the Day: DISCIPLE More on the terrain of translation — the corrugated landscape of what we can say,…
The central problem of the century– and of our lives
This weekend I saw Witness, the powerful work by Whittaker Chambers, sitting on the shelf, and decided that it was…
Word of the Day: ALLELUIA
Word of the Day: ALLELUIA The perils of Biblical transliteration…. The man whose earth-moving machines across the street are waking…
Word of the Day: SOLITARY
Word of the Day: SOLITARY We finished in class today the greatest poem ever written in English: Some natural tears…
What liturgists might learn from the Masters golf tournament
Although I am neither a golfer nor a golf fan, I enjoy watching the Masters on television each year, for…
Word of the Day: EASTER
Word of the Day: EASTER The ironies of faithlessness — that it should lead to such heights of credulity, a…
Word of the Day: WATCH
Word of the Day: WATCH One of these days I will get around to reading a novel I’ve started and…
Word of the Day: PILGRIM
Word of the Day: PILGRIM “Pilgrim,” says Tom Doniphon to Ranse Stoddard, “YOU didn’t kill Liberty Valance. I did.” Everybody…
