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Indulgences: Counted & Forfeited
I counted indulgences when I was a child. Quite likely, some of you did the same, though maybe not as fastidiously as I did. Every First Friday and First Saturday, there I was indemnifying myself...
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Vandalism With Intent
Something unedifying is under way at the Church of Our Saviour, on lower Park Avenue in Manhattan. This alert from a knowledgeable source came Tuesday morning and has been circulating:I am informed...
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Treason of the Clerisy
I foresee churches with their Jesuit bureaucrats open daily from 9-5, closed on weekends. Georges BernanosJesuits are blameless here but the point...
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A Mess & How It Got There
A man’s being a poisoner is nothing against his prose. Oscar WildeEvery embarrassment is not a scandal. Egg on the face...
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Until Later
There is a hush over August. Its quietude invites every Jackself to take as one’s own Hopkins’ interior monologue: “Let be, call off thoughts awhile.” Words, too, need a rest. Only in silence can we...
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Reinhard Marx, Agony Uncle
It is September. Time to slide out of the hammock and get going. But on what? Headlines piled up over August. Every one of them is a depth meter that gives a reading on how far down the rabbit hole we...
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The Second Coming of Peronismo
Peronism is the highest level of consciousness reached by the Argentine working class. Statement of the Movement of Priests for the Third World, 1971 We mustn’t pay too much attention to...
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Cloward-Piven Goes to Rome
You just slip out the back, Jack Make a new plan, Stan You don’t need to be coy, Roy Just listen to me Hop on the bus, Gus You don’t need to discuss much Just drop off the key, Lee And get yourself...
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Bruce Dorfman, Artist & Mentor
An artist who seeks subject matter is like a person who can’t get up in the morning until he understands the purpose of life. Fairfield PorterPorter...
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Notes on the Vatican Climate
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. Daniel J. Boorstin“Religions die.” Those two...
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