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July 2014

July 03, 2014

Hymn to the Fourth of July

The Fourth of July is coming up, and if there’s any time of the year...

June 2014

June 12, 2014

Appreciating Andrew Wyeth

I’ve had a few nasty discoveries of late. All too often, I’ve found out that...

May 2014

May 29, 2014

At a Loss for Words

I’m told there are words in Romanian (“dor”) and in Portuguese (“saudade”)—those two outposts in...

May 13, 2014

Ruin and Possibility in David Gordon Green’s Joe

How many of our triumphs in a long and confusing life are accountable not to...

April 2014

April 21, 2014

An Hour Upon the Stage

Among the variety of strange notions that we get into our heads, one of the...

April 03, 2014

Beauty’s Victory

I go on binges. For days, weeks, months—well, usually not months—but days and weeks anyhow,...

March 2014

March 18, 2014

Memory: Jubilee and Knell

A friend mentioned a line from Hannah and Her Sisters the other day: “But in...

February 2014

February 20, 2014

You Could Be a Winner

I just entered the Publisher’s Clearing House Sweepstakes. I’ve never done anything like that before....

January 2014

January 27, 2014

The Parent State

A few years back, I watched an interview with a middle-aged woman who was educated,...

January 14, 2014

Zeal for Thy House

It’s January 1 and the first Mass of the year finds me slouched onto the...

December 2013

December 13, 2013

An Almost Human Happiness

A typical plot complication on reality shows involves the unexpected twist, a challenge that the...

November 2013

November 20, 2013

Complaint to a Profligate God

I am sick of God’s injustice. Everywhere and at all times, the guilty walk free,...

October 2013

October 23, 2013

Only God is an Atheist, Part 2

It was not out of sheer flattery that Thomas Merton compared Flannery O’Connor to Sophocles,...

October 22, 2013

Only God is an Atheist, Part 1

When she was twenty-one years old, far from home and as yet uncelebrated, Flannery O’Connor...

September 2013

September 26, 2013

Conscience: An Epitaph

Time melts as it’s made, said Anthony Burgess. Each moment is both increase and surcease,...

August 2013

August 26, 2013

The Mill and the Cross

In Breughel’s panoramic painting, “The Procession to Calvary,” the fallen Savior, collapsed under the cross beam,...

August 13, 2013

Sorting Through the Past

I’ve been cleaning out an attic—not my own—along with drawers, closets, shelves, storehouses, and barns...

July 2013

July 23, 2013

The Impossible Shows Us How To Live

If you were to live a day as though you’d be dead at the end...

July 03, 2013

It’s Always 1984

July 4, 1984. I don’t remember the day, but surely jokes were made back then;...

June 2013

June 12, 2013

Family, Friends, Honored Guests

Graduation season has come to a close now, and the above-said words have welcomed the...

May 2013

May 27, 2013

Sunday Morning Coming Down

There’s something in a Sunday that makes a body feel alone. I sat in my...

May 01, 2013

This Is the Way the World Ends

Confucius thought that social unrest could stem from dissociation between language and reality. A “rectification...

April 2013

April 22, 2013

The Inestimable Value of Clichés

In his great work, Earthly Powers, Anthony Burgess has the main character—Kenneth Toomey, a doddering,...

April 01, 2013

If Necessary, Use Words

As a retort to the old saying that “a New Englander never uses ten words...

March 2013

March 18, 2013

This Old House

I was raised in a house full of old furniture: old desks, old mirrors, old...

March 01, 2013

Feeling the Questions: A Serious Man and Footnote

“Why does he make us feel the questions if he won’t give us the answers?”...

February 2013

February 08, 2013

The Little Sisters of the Poor: Religious Conscience and Government Mandates

When you’re poor for your entire life, it’s possible to become somewhat inured to misery....

January 2013

January 17, 2013

The Peril of False Spring

It’s January, but the weatherman says the temperatures will creep up near seventy for the...

December 2012

December 27, 2012

The State of Things to Come

With relation to time, Walker Percy once compared the present to the tape head on...

December 06, 2012

Cicero and Machiavelli: Being and Seeming

Cicero said that it is better to be than to seem. Some fifteen centuries later,...