Our culture is attempting suicide
by Phil Lawler
When I read the news headline it suddenly all seemed clear. The story reported that new positive Covid tests were…
Coincidentally: A Cavalcade of Georges
Few literary conventions are more useful than quotation of Aristotle when in a pinch. He gives a sheen to what…
Coincidentally: For Whom the Bell Tolls
As part of its game plan or the Third Millennium, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has sanctioned cremation….
Coincidentally: Noble Thoughts
Although Persian and English share no etymological roots, the word “bad” means the same in both. This should alert us…
Coincidentally: Keeping Time
The Aztecs could tell time on a mega-scale, being keen on sundials and calendars. If there was not some contact…
Coincidentally: The Happy Farmer
I shall always be grateful to the neighbor of my parents who some years ago gave me a copy of…
Coincidentally: Great Minds Thinking Alike
Many have read the explanatory note of 29 June 1998 about Pope John Paul II’s motu proprio Ad Tuendam Fidem issued by the…
Coincidentally: Before Incunabula
Some essays write themselves and this is one of them. In 1996 the philanthropist George W. Mallinckrodt gave a substantial…
Coincidentally: Hearing Secret Harmonies
The Civil War was raging, and a Confederate sentry heard the sound of a voice coming from marshland behind enemy…
Coincidentally: All Gas and Gaiters
Irony was strained the United Nations’ “Earth Summit” in 1997 when President Clinton and President Chirac and Prime Minister Blair…
Coincidentally: Arma Virumque
By an instinct common to all youth who have not had pacifism violently hammered into them, the inventive child will…
Coincidentally: Names Proper and Improper
Of all the blithe habits that befog our culture as it careens toward wreckage, one of the most annoying is…
Do You Notice What You See? | Daniel Kerr
by Dr. William Fahey /Joseph Pearce
Daniel Kerr, an avid birder and amateur naturalist, will offer a reflection on the lost art of “noticing” and the…
Coincidentally: Moses and the Muses
The Anglo-Irish critic Robert Wilson Lynd observed that only in literature does coincidence seem unnatural. The literary Detection Club, whose…
Coincidentally: Animal Magnetism
The former mayor Marion Barry said of conditions in Washington, D.C., that “the crime rate isn’t so bad if you…
Coincidentally: Heirs to the Hairless
Dr. Martin Routh, president of Magdalen College for 63 years, was the last Oxford don to wear a wig in…
Coincidentally: Detachment
To investigate the quack theory of animal magnetism, a hypothesis of Franz Mesmer, for whom mesmerism is named, King Louis…
Coincidentally: Taking Flight
In a recent motion picture, computer technology shows the monster Godzilla toppling the Chrysler Building onto my bedroom. Special effects…
Coincidentally: A Bridge to the Future
The promise to “build a bridge to the future” has become a mantra in recent politics. It is less cogent…
Coincidentally: More Varieties of Religious Experience
Felicitous arrangements allowed me as a student to repair weekly to practice the piano in a house by the Folly…
