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January 2014

January 02, 2014

Study: The Second Pillar

Study is the second pillar of Dominican life. Read about it in my January column...

January 02, 2014

A Crying Shame: Hand-made Flutes Destroyed by U.S. Customs

Via Slashdot: Boujemaa Razgui, a flute virtuoso who performs regularly with The Boston Camerata, lost...

January 02, 2014

Words I Wish I’d Written: Droit de Seigneur

The duke often mused on his good luck in marrying her. If it wasn’t for...

January 01, 2014

S’Mary’s World: The Albertines

The Albertine Order of St. Mary's-without-the-Arm grew by necessity from the logic of colonial survival....

December 2013

December 31, 2013

Unnatural Death, by Dorothy Sayers

Mystery novels thrive on novelty, on how to murder the victim and hide the perpetrator...

December 30, 2013

Friendship Evangelism

Recently I ran across this entry at a site called "wikiHow": fifteen steps to Persuade...

December 29, 2013

Bootstrapping the Interior Life: Divine Office, Part II

Last week, I began talking about the Divine Office as a daily devotion. Today I...

December 28, 2013

The Dread House of Lego

This was first posted in December of 2003. Whilst out and about with my two...

December 27, 2013

Woof Guide to Popular Music: Sisters, Andrews, Boswell, and Puppini

Here's a little something upbeat for New Year's: the Andrews Sisters with "Boogie Woogie Bugle...

December 26, 2013

S’Mary’s World: Calendar

The calendar for S'Mary's World was established by the Articles of Colonization, as was usual in...

December 26, 2013

Words I Wish I’d Written: Provision for Discourse

On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of...

December 25, 2013

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to all of my readers! May the memory of Christ's birth, the Incarnation...

December 24, 2013

Clouds of Witness, by Dorothy Sayers

In Whose Body?, Lord Peter Wimsey's brother the Duke of Denver wishes that Lord Peter...

December 23, 2013

Too Introverted to Evangelize?

People were discussing the New Evangelization on a Catholic forum I read, and one fellow...

December 22, 2013

Bootstrapping the Interior Life: Divine Office, Part I

A few days ago I talked about the value of regular devotions to the interior...

December 21, 2013

Sea Chanties

So yesterday I posted Ewan MacColl singing about Nancy Whiskey; which led a Facebook friend...

December 21, 2013

Disney Hall

In 2003, Jane and I went to hear a concert at Disney Hall in Los...

December 20, 2013

Woof Guide to Popular Music: Fairytale of New York

"The boys of the NYPD choir are singing Galway Bay; and the bells are ringing...

December 19, 2013

Classics of the Season

Santa Claus, as we know, goes everywhere, every year. This year, courtesy of photographer Ed...

December 19, 2013

Words I Wish I’d Written: FBI Man

You don’t have to believe me, but I would have known after one look at...

December 18, 2013

S’Mary’s World: The Prefecture

The Prefecture (more fully the Apostolic Prefecture of St. Mary's World) is the name given...

December 17, 2013

Whose Body?, by Dorothy Sayers

Sometimes you go back to a book you remember with delight, and you wonder what...

December 16, 2013

The Eternal View and the Temporal View

There are two ways to look at the Church, two ways that are essential for...

December 15, 2013

Bootstrapping the Interior Life: Rosary

I actually picked up the Rosary before I returned to the Catholic Church. A non-Catholic...

December 14, 2013

Support Your Local Sheriff

This post first appeared in October of 2003. One of my favorite movies of all...

December 13, 2013

Evangelii Gaudium: Out of the Comfort Zone

If we take joy in the Gospel, if it truly is Good News, we'll want...

December 13, 2013

Woof Guide to Popular Music: And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda

"And nobody cheered, they just stood and stared, and they turned their faces away." In...

December 12, 2013

Evangelii Gaudium: Suffering and Hope

Pain and suffering are difficult by definition. Recently Calah Alexander took issue with people who...

December 12, 2013

Words I Wish I’d Written: Vulgar Language

She pronounced a word which she should have kept to herself, since there was a...

December 11, 2013

Prayer: The First Pillar

I'm doing a series on Dominican spirituality over at CatholicMom; the first post is on...

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