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August 2013

August 15, 2013

Fresh Caught Fish II: Top 10 Living Religious Novelists

Paul Elie says all the great novelists are dead. But he's dead wrong! I've recently...

August 12, 2013

A Fish Rots from the Head Down (On Paul Elie and Secularization in the Arts)

The Polish poet Czesław Miłosz (1911-2004) is widely read in American poetry circles. It wouldn't be...

August 09, 2013

Famous Atheists Who Weren’t Atheists 2: The Christianity of Camus

Albert Camus was nearly as unfaithful as Jean-Paul Sartre . . . to atheism. This should...

August 07, 2013

What Does Love Know?

Jean-Luc Marion is a Catholic philosopher, some say the greatest living philosopher, who studied under...

July 2013

July 31, 2013

The Prolegomena to Any Future Newman

Below is an excerpt from an interview with Nick Ripatrazone featured today on his blog The Fine...

July 30, 2013

A True Opium for the People is a Belief in Nothingness After Death!

When was the last time any of you (who don't attend fundamentalist churches) heard a...

July 29, 2013

Miłosz, Penderecki, and Jeremiah: On the Contemporaneity of the Bible

I'm taking a bit of a break from my Catholiclandia series before I tackle the...

July 20, 2013

Coetzee on the Stillbirth of the Humanities Out of Theology

I suspect the endless essays about the rethinking, protecting, death, in other words, the "crisis,"...

July 18, 2013

Coetzee Demolishes Greek Harmony With Christian Agony

The best religious novelist of our time isn't, as far as I know, a Christian...

July 09, 2013

Disconsolate Karłowicz & Dostoevsky Tarry with Theological Corpses

One of my readers has (rightfully?) chided me about my obsession with the negative aspects...

July 03, 2013

American Idol: Religious Freedom

That something went wrong with the post-conciliar Church is a truism of both left and...

June 2013

June 30, 2013

Famous Atheists Who Weren’t Atheists 2: The Christianity of Camus

Albert Camus was nearly as unfaithful as Jean-Paul Sartre . . . to atheism. This...

June 28, 2013

Famous Atheists Who Weren't Atheists: Sartre's Crossover

Almost everyone will agree that Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) is rightfully recognized as a major figure...

June 25, 2013

Zbigniew Herbert Tempers the Rational Fury

Zbigniew Herbert (1924-1998) is one of the two greatest Polish poets of the 20th century....

June 23, 2013

Sunday Spoiler: The Liturgy Is *Not* Sacred

If you're looking for a book which is a huge difference-maker in how you view...

June 16, 2013

Rabelaisian Catholicism Redux or: How to Keep the Church Impure

Yesterday's post discussed (here) how early Christian theology was fundamentally "polluted" by the Greek tradition...

June 15, 2013

Adam Zagajewski | In the Beauty Created By Others

Early in the morning I'm grading papers at the Crossroads mall in Bellevue. It's delightful...

June 11, 2013

Czesław Miłosz | To Raja Rao

TO RAJA RAO Czesław Miłosz Raja, I wish I knew the cause of that malady....

June 10, 2013

My Being Turns to Smoke

Sonnet [read at 3AM] My being turns to smoke in the mad strife Of passions...

June 09, 2013

The Problem of the Good (not Evil) or: On Rabelaisian Catholicism

The Charles Ramsey story went from viral to vile very quickly. The rescuer of three...

June 05, 2013

American Literary Slugfest: Papist Upstarts vs. Established Prots

In his essay "Religion and Literature" T.S. Eliot makes a most reasonable critical observation, especially...

May 2013

May 09, 2013

Coffee and Cosmos

"When I stir my morning coffee and watch the swirling of the streaks, I am...