Surrexit Christus, sicut dixit!

If the Mass is not real, the Faith not Truth, then forever gladly shall I live in delusion, for if it is not Truth, then nothing is, for nothing but Truth can be of such incomparable beauty, and I should live a life of false but such wondrous Beauty before I ever should embrace the [...]

Unto Us A Child Is Born

Sincerest wishes for a blessed, merry Christmas day and season, and for a comprehensively prosperous 2009, from the bottom of my absent-from-web-logging heart.
Courtesy of The Northern Agrarian, Linus van Pelt explains the true meaning of Christmas.

Pregnant “Catholic Priest”

I bet Jesus is turning in His grave over this one.
A little over a year ago, 26-year-old Jessica Rowley shattered the stained-glass ceiling, so to speak, by being ordained a Catholic priest. Now the St. Louisan is on the verge of giving birth to her first child, and a Washington, D.C.-based group that advocates for women’s ordination says that [...]

Palin’s war prayer

All over the web, Sarah Palin’s already infamous address to ministry students at her former church:
“Our national leaders are sending them out on a task that is from God,” she said. “That’s what we have to make sure that we’re praying for, that there is a plan and that plan is God’s plan.”
The first sentence, [...]

“I mean, look around you. We live in a nation in terrible crisis.”

At Caelum et Terra, Daniel Nichols laments, well, the fall of America; I guess that’s as good a way of describing his post as any other. Please, read this.
I mean, look around you. We live in a nation in terrible crisis. We are mired in two wars against native insurgencies, historically a losing proposition. Evidence [...]

The scent of the mint on a warm September night is reassuring. It’s sexy.

I posted the following on my Xanga page at two fifty-nine a.m. on the twelfth of September, back in 2005. So long ago! I had headed home for the day — or maybe only for a couple of hours –, and on my way back to Notre Dame, thoughts emerged in my head, as I [...]

“At Lambeth, Cardinal Kasper Calls for Another Newman”

Interesting piece, from a Papist perspective, on Lambeth, the struggles of the Anglican Communion, with-in and with respect to Rome, and the prospects of some Anglicans’ wishes to reconcile with the Roman Catholic Church.

Go read Rod.

(Now that I’m Orthodox, there are some things I would obviously change about that piece, but I think the basic point holds up: the storm of modernity that has devastated Catholicism in the West will not spare the East).

Wall•E’s director, on his vision for the film

I haven’t seen this yet, despite my having tried last week. Rod’s first review really intrigued me; James, noting the salient absence of modern art from the movie’s credit scenes, further interested me. Now, Rod has linked to and posted an excerpt from an interview with Andrew Stanton, who directed the film, and I really [...]

More on Mailer: War, Concentration, Technology, and Christianity

This passage, too, from The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History has rather deeply affected me over the years, as has the post discussed here. This passage touches further on the deleterious effects of concentration (of technology and the corporation, specifically), and offers what i believe to be a [...]