The witness of a poet and patriot: Joyce Kilmer
by Amy Fahey
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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…
Word of the Day: CLEAN
Word of the Day: CLEAN I’ve done this one before, but I am thinking these days about the Beatitudes, whose…
Equality, You Say?
When I was a senior at Princeton, somebody knocked on my door, peddling a petition. He wanted me to sign…
Word of the Day: LEARN
Word of the Day: LEARN I am reading an excellent new book, The Decay of Truth in Education, by Kevin…
Different World Alert
I’ve been placing books on new shelves we’ve just put up, and came across a handsomely bound monograph, a doctoral…
That unforgettable Ash Wednesday photo
by Phil Lawler
A week later, the image is still clearly etched in my mind. In the aftermath of the Florida school shootings,…
Will we sacrifice Marines to advance feminist standards?
Americans today—in sharp contrast with their behavior during the years of the Vietnam war—show great respect, bordering on reverence, for…
Word of the Day: PIOUS
Word of the Day: PIOUS As I said the other day, we’re now beginning to read Virgil’s Aeneid, in the…
Word of the Day: DUST
Word of the Day: DUST An hour late, I know, but a good word for the whole season. “Remember, man,…
The blessing and the curse
Today at Mass we heard the famous challenge that God set before the people of Israel, from the Book of…
