Even the Devils Believe

Bill Donohue, the president of the Catholic League, has made a career out of being a firebrand, going on TV shows and ranting about how this or that thing is anti-Catholic and bigoted. He doesn’t speak for many people, but for some reason CNN, Fox News, and everyone else brings him on to rant [...]

If you’re interested in seeing Into Great Silence on the big screen in the United States, the US distributor has put up a list of theatres. Go check it out. Even if you’re getting the DVD, it’s worth seeing in a theatre.
If you’d like to buy the film on DVD, you can get it here [...]

From Matins this morning:
The Marytrdom of the Virgin, which is set before us in the history of the Passion of the Lord itself, is likewise fully declared unto us in the prophecy of Simeon. This holy old man spake of the Child Jesus, saying : Behold, this Child is set for the fall and rising [...]

Before I forget — after mentioning the “King Jimmy” Bible in my last post, it occurred to me that I keep meaning to ask what Bible translations everyone uses, and in what contexts.
As a Missouri Synod kid, I grew up using the NIV. I haven’t picked one up since high school, however. For [...]

The buzz about a possible motu proprio from the Pope that would authorize all priests in the Roman Catholic Church to celebrate the old, pre-conciliar Mass is more or less constant at this point. I see at least a couple of blog posts every day wondering when it will be released, what it will [...]

Section 1. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
Section 3. This amendment shall take effect two years after the date of [...]

After going to the Cluny Museum on Sunday, I went over to the Reflet Medicis cinema near bd. St-Germain-des-Prés to watch “Into Great Silence” (”Le grand silence” in French), a film about life in a Carthusian monastery in France.
First of all, it’s an astonishingly beautiful film, visually speaking. The cinematography is perfect, and the [...]

Since visiting +Tim recently in Philadelphia, I’ve been trying to sing more of the Office. I’m at the point where I’m singing almost all of Vespers, which seems appropriate for an ex-Lutheran — for now I’m only singing hymns, the main canticle, and Marian antiphons in the other offices, and I doubt that will [...]

Yesterday before watching “Into Great Silence,” I went to the Cluny Museum of the Middle Age in Paris. It was my favorite museum visit in the city so far (not that the Louvre was bad!). They had a lot of interesting church stuff, including some manuscript pages you could look at. I [...]

I just saw this sign in the lift as I was going upstairs:
THIS NIGHT AT 1 O’CLOCK
IT WILL BE 2 O’CLOCK
I didn’t realize I was going to have to go through the time switch twice this year! I’m beginning to understand my friends from Indiana who are in favor of dropping DST altogether. [...]