When the Bad Guy Samaritan Loved His Jewish Neighbor
Who is my neighbor?
Happy Birthday, Fellowship!
Sixty-two years ago today, The Fellowship of the Ring was published to what most people consider a general success. The 1954 novel was written after Dr. Tolkien's publisher asked for a sequel to the popular The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, and expressed no interest in the Silmarillion … [Read More...]
King Lear’s Last Speech
The evidence that Shakespeare was a faithful Catholic has become incontrovertible. I won’t bore you with the details. I won’t even channel my inner-Cicero and mention how I won’t mention that William’s father, the sometime mayor of Stratford-upon-Avon, resigned his post and accepted ruinous monetary … [Read More...]
I Will Keep Singing
July 18, 2016 The first indication I had yesterday that all was not well here in Baton Rouge came from my pianist at church. She walked in for our usual pre-Mass warm up and reported that she had seen at least a dozen police cars responding to something on Airline Highway. In hindsight, she … [Read More...]
Light Summer Reading
Summer time is here, as are the long, lazy days of reading. (I can dream, can't I?) Here are a few of the books I'm reading this summer. Comment with your own reading, below. ~ Memento Mori, by Muriel Spark Thanks to Michael for the recommendation. I'm quite enjoying Spark's examination of old … [Read More...]
My Index of Forbidden Books
Recently, there has been discussion around the internetsphere about the index of banned books which, this June, celebrated its 50th anniversary of being banned itself by Pope Paul VI (Quaeritur: If the list of forbidden books is itself forbidden does this mean that there is now a new, higher-level … [Read More...]
