Pope Pius X, Being a Model Shepherd and the Modes of Modernism.
Today is the memorial of one of the best Good Shepherds of the church in the modern age.
DWIGHT LONGENECKER
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The Murder of Megan Markle, Scapegoating Ancient and Modern, and the Crucifixion of Christ.
I should say right up front that the Duchess of Sussex has not been murdered, nor do I predict or expect or wish for her to be literally murdered.
That the Eternal Soul is an Act, the Degradation of a Prince and the Dwindling of Albion.
England has produced many mystics, but they are often neglected, unloved and unknown.
A Ninth Grade Self-schola, Sacred Music, Latin and the Olfactory Apprehension of Beauty
I missed my appointment with Substack yesterday because it was my joy to drive one hour up into the foothills of Western South Carolina to get to the— out in the boondocks— retreat center where our ninth graders were on a beginning of school year retreat.
Mantilla the Hon on the Use of Incense
On Saturdays I post some of my creative writing.
Auschwitz, Kolbe, Hoss and the Audacity of Forgiveness
Today is the memorial of St Maximillian Kolbe and on my desk I’m looking at a collage from our parish pilgrimage to Poland ten years ago.
C.S.Lewis's Wisest and Best Teacher, Perception, Reality, Full and Final Participation
C.S.Lewis called him “the wisest and best of my unofficial teachers.” It was his old wartime and college friend Owen Barfield—sometimes called “the silent Inkling”.
C.S.Lewis's Stumble, The Hall and the Side Rooms, the Protestant Problem and More Christianity.
I am a huge fan of C.S.Lewis.
Calling Out Left Wing Lunacy, The Sin of the World, the Reason for Religion
Nobody can say Rod Dreher is a man of few words.
Thoughts on Sacred Art and architecture, cheesy music and some Anglophile nostalgia.
Breakfast with brother Jim— an artist— on Saturday and we were discussing the importance and role of sacred art.
The Tlenamacac
On Saturdays I post samples of my creative writing.
Bloodshed and Blessing
Something deep within you recognizes it - the instinct that sacrifice matters, that something must be offered, that violence and beauty are woven together in ways that mere reason cannot explain.