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  • Thanksgiving and the Uncongenial Family

    Today is the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States; and, for it, I am re-posting the following essay from last year with some edits. May you all have a beautiful Thanksgiving surrounded by your lovely uncongenial family. ~SCF “If we were tomorrow morning snowed up in the street in which we live, we should step suddenly into a much larger…

  • In October by G.K. Chesterton

      WHERE are they gone that did delight in honour Abrupt and absolute as an epic ends, What light of the Last Things, like death at morning, Crowns the true lovers and the tragic friends? Young priests with eager faces bright as eagles, Poor scholars of the harp-string, strict and strong, All the huge thirst of things irrevocable And all…

  • Catholic Life

    “…the view that priests darken and embitter the world. I look at the world and simply discover that they don’t. Those countries in Europe which are still influenced by priests, are exactly the countries where there is still singing and dancing and coloured dresses and art in the open-air. Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the…