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July 25, 2016

7 Places You Have to Visit During World Youth Day to Get a Real Feel for the Soul of Krakow

If I forget you, O Krakow, let my right hand wither. These are my "I'm...

May 2016

May 09, 2016

The Catholic Imagination: A Sophiology Between Scatology and Eschatology

. . . A pure thing, against the sad affairs of earth. Pure, forbidden the...

May 24, 2015

What Are the 7 Essential Poems for Pentecost? +Pantheon Surprise

Pentecost with all its fire and surprises is conducive to poetic expressions. For whatever reason,...

April 2015

April 01, 2015

Kolakowski on the Perpetually Haunted Atheist April Fool’s

If patience is a virtue, then the fact that the Church thinks in centuries is...

January 2015

January 31, 2015

Milosz Mentors Merton on Manichaeism & the Modern Mind

It is fashionable to dump upon Thomas Merton. He seems to have been too open...

January 17, 2015

I’m Not Well—The Voices are Back

No, this isn't about Stephen Herreid. He seems to have gone into writing exile after...

December 2014

December 18, 2014

Dare We Hope That All Dogs Go To Heaven?

Dare we hope that all dogs go to heaven? Sure, why not? Though there's no...

November 2014

November 05, 2014

Girard: Assisted Suicide and the Further Intensification of Problems

My colleague Kathy Schiffer followed the Brittany Maynard assisted suicide case closely on her blog....

September 2014

September 22, 2014

All the Best to the Russians, But I Am Profoundly Skeptical

The Merton Annual asked me to write a piece about the Thomas Merton - Czeslaw...

April 2014

April 27, 2014

Ode for John Paul II by Czeslaw Milosz

"Ode for the Eightieth Birthday of Pope John Paul II" by Czeslaw Milosz in New...

April 20, 2014

Resurrection Sunday: Whoever Believes That Should Not Behave as We Do

“Christ is risen.” Whoever believes thatShould not behave as we do,Who have lost the up,...

February 2014

February 13, 2014

The Epochal Break of the Romantic Imagination

Valentine's Day is around the corner and it's difficult to avoid talking about something romantic....

January 2014

January 31, 2014

The Catholic Imagination

I recently gave a talk to the Young Adults group at my parish. George Weigel used...

January 24, 2014

Everything Under the S(u/o)n: Von Balthasar's and Milosz's God Metaphors

Writing really is a process of discovery, a form of thinking. You don't know what...

November 2013

November 18, 2013

Finger of God's Hand We Own

There's a passage in the hymn "Veni Creator, Spiritus" that should get a rise out...

October 2013

October 30, 2013

Books I've Cheated On: Non-Fiction

I'm attempting to get back to blogging by tying it to my dissertation. Yesterday's post...

October 29, 2013

The Catholic Imagination and the Age of Czeslaw Milosz

Dissertation writing is a long process of accumulating knowledge, scrapping it, finding surprising connections,...

October 02, 2013

The Eviscerated Public Square

When you accumulate books there is always that one which you've meant to read for...

August 2013

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...

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...

June 2013

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 11, 2013

Czesław Miłosz | To Raja Rao

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