It was 2006, the time the Da Vinci Code movie was released. Debates buzzed in Catholic blogosphere, while the billboards advertising the movie were displayed throughout the city. It was hard not to see Leonardo’s Last Supper and not think “Dan Brown”. But another feature of the painting caught my attention. This, and all the [...]
I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and your joy may be complete. This is my commandment: love one another as I love you. – John 15:11 Joy is like an old ship that was headed for some adventure, but sunk instead like a slow rock under the heaviness of life, waiting to [...]
With the election season heating up and the usual sins threatening to conquer us, it’s time to talk about… art. Eve Tushnet makes a penetrating observation* in an upcoming issue of First Things magazine: If you (a sinner) cannot imagine a different way of life, if you do not see virtue as a real and [...]
This is a poem I felt compelled to write when I was thinking of one of my mom’s uncles, her godfather at baptism. I don’t know why I was thinking about him. We only ever had one conversation, back when he was sick, a few months before he died. He had so many books that [...]
“Man’s curiosity searches past and future And clings to that dimension. But to apprehend The point of intersection of the timeless With time, is an occupation for the saint–” Today was a jump day. I had to jump out of a Chinook. This is one of the occupational hazards of my day job, that periodically they [...]
Somewhere in my mind’s many rooms, I hear a sound I dimly recognize– Faint and ghostly, not quite clear– A sound more haunting than piercing, So distant yet so familiar to my ear: ‘Tis the echo of a song I didn’t sing. I’m haunted by the echoes in my mind, The echoes of a lullaby [...]
Q. How do you pronounce “ignitum”? A. Well, you have some options. The Romans would have said ig-NEE-toom. In church, we’d say “in-YEE-toom.”
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