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June 21st, Feast of Aloysius Gonzaga
Today is the Catholic feast of St. Aloysius Gonzaga, the patron of youth and the original of the "saint's name day" of Sebastian Flyte's teddy bear, "Aloysius," in Brideshead RevisitedIn Father James Martin's description, this prince-turned-saint turns out not to be the wimp that Catholic pietism made him out to be. And I think it is also ( Read more... ) -
Howard Fast, in his novel Spartacus, About Roman Political Culture (Its Similarity to Ours)
https://youtu.be/8l1NyR6UvxUIn order to help you to understand the analogy I'm drawing, between the situation of the late Roman Republic, at the time of the Third Servile War--just before the it dissolved into an authoritarian tyranny--I will insert bracketed material ( Read more... ) -
Reviews of Biography of George Herbert
Above is the Leighton Bromswold Church, restored by George Herbert and Nicholas and John Ferrar of Little Gidding
Biography is one of the most marketable genres of our age, and literary criticism is not. It is therefore a bold move for Allen Lane to publish a book that fulfils its subtitle so exactly. Herbert's life does not superficially offer ( Read more... ) -
Itineray For the UK in Summer of 2017
I will arrive in Heathrow, London, at 10:00 P.M. on Friday, July 7th, on Qater Airlines Flight #QR005 (from Doha ( Read more... ) -
A Book That Brilliantly Locates the Roots of Modernist Secularism and Atheism in Protestantism
I think that the The Unintended Reformation is one of the most profound critiques of modernist culture and its roots in Protestant “heresy” that I have ever read, and I insist that my openness to this critique demonstrates full well that I am NOT, in any deeply philosophical sense, a religious OR a political “liberal”-while at the same time not ( Read more... )
