Girl from Yale. Miss Tushnet explains.

When I first came to Yale--not that I realized this at the time--I was trying to understand three questions: Why is poetry meaningful? Why is sex meaningful? Why is estrangement meaningful? Other people can talk about market economics or national security; I can only sketch how investigating these three ( Read more... )

Father Anthony Chadwick, a priest whose traditional, expansive, evangelical, non-polemic and orthodox outlooks on the Church and her liturgy are a pleasure to read gets it right about monasticism and traditionalist movements. There's hardly a hint of any romanticizing of the old or even those who promote the old, but there is a profound ( Read more... )

Oh... my... good God.

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"My sorrow is not unusual. This very day hundreds, thousands of us perhaps, all over the world, will be dazed by a similar sentence. I am probably among the least able to control a first impulse--I know my weakness so well. But experience has also taught me that I have inherited from my mother, and no doubt from other poor women of our kind, a ( Read more... )

I was planning to head out to the Pacific Northwest to visit my sister and a few friends next week. However, it looks as though it will be postponed until the last week of August. Disappointed.

As prester_scott links and says,

A self-proclaimed expert who writes a boilerplate attack on homeschooling for the NEA is himself completely flummoxed by a sarcastic reply.

With Tom Cruise being in the spotlight again and Katie Holmes following closely, I couldn't help but make this observation. Nicole Kidman, Penelope Cruz, and Katie Holmes all grew up Catholic. Also, Kidman, Holmes and Batman? I also read somewhere that Tom Cruise went to a seminary for a year when he was teenager ( Read more... )

( Old book meme )

For the young Traditionalist: (via Dappled Things)


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"What we previously knew only in theory has become for us a practical experience: the Church stands and falls with the Liturgy. When the adoration of the divine Trinity declines, when the faith no longer appears in its fullness in the Liturgy of the Church, when man’s words, his thoughts, his intentions are suffocating him, then faith will have ( Read more... )