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…
What does it mean to ‘restore culture’?
[What follows is an address delivered on February 2 by Professor Anthony Esolen, at a gathering for supporters of the…
Word of the Day: BLIND
Word of the Day: BLIND A facebook friend asked me the other day why we don’t say BLOUND for the…
Word of the Day: JOY
Word of the Day: JOY When I come home from work, my dog Jasper greets me with a dog-version of…
Word of the Day: CIVIL
Word of the Day: CIVIL When the Gauls under their chieftain Brennus — lop off the nominative ending and we…
Word of the Day: LAW
Word of the Day: LAW Many years ago I took an opportunity to be part of an eight-person faculty seminar,…
Word of the Day: LIFE
Word of the Day: LIFE Two thirds of our students at Thomas More College are not at the school today,…
Word of the Day: ECONOMY
Word of the Day: ECONOMY Here’s a word that needs redeeming, like POLITICAL. (By the way, I love the English…
