Thursday, August 29, 2024

The Path to Rome

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  In his book Literature: What Every Catholic Should Know, Joseph Pearce provides a quick overview of what he considers great work of liter...
Tuesday, August 27, 2024

The Clerihew Contest

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  At every national Chesterton Conference they have a clerihew contest. As I was not goign to attend this summer, I sent Dale Ahlquist some ...
Thursday, August 15, 2024

For the Feast of the Assumption

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  On this Feast of the Assumption, here's an essay by Chesterton, "Mary and the Convert."  I was brought up in a part of the P...
Thursday, August 08, 2024

Memorizing Lepanto

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The July/August issue of StAR (Saint Austin Review ) arrived the other day. The focus of this issue is on "Ageless Children's Liter...

Tim Walz Clerihew

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  Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has been nominated for Vice President - he hasn't been officially approved as of the time I'm posting ...
Thursday, August 01, 2024

Reading With Urgency

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  In the July/August issue of   Gilbert , an article by Mark Johnson caught my attention. In "Urgent Conversations with the Dead" ...
Saturday, July 27, 2024

Two Days Late - and a Reid Clerihew

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  So after making a point of saying I would be posting, and resurrecting the notion that I am "Thursday," I failed to post on Thur...
Thursday, July 25, 2024

The Importance of Being is the Flipside of the Importance of Doing Nothing

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 " It's because artists do not practise, patrons do not patronize, crowds do not assemble to worship reverently the great work of D...
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Thursday, July 18, 2024

The Flying Inn and Walt Whitman

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Every yer I set various reading goals. One of my goals this year was to read a G.K. Chesterton novel I had not read before. I met that goal ...
Tuesday, July 16, 2024

The Man Who IS Thursday

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  There used to be a team of writers contributing to this blog. I was not one of the original team members, but I was invited in 2006 to joi...
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Monday, July 01, 2024

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy IS Catholic!

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On social media some folks have been engaging in a debate over whether The Lord of the Rings Trilogy is Christian/Catholic. Some argue that ...
Friday, May 24, 2024

Joseph Pearce's Poetry List

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  Joseph Pearce shows up in the strangest places. I used to teach at a classical education school. Although I'm now retired, I still get...
Saturday, May 18, 2024

The Books Have Arrived!

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Okay, as if it didn't already have too many books (Too many books? Is there such a thing?) two more waiting at my front door this mornin...

The latest Saint Austin Review: Chesterton!

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  The always delightful Saint Austen Review (StAR) has come out with an issue dedicated to G. K. Chesterton and Fulton Sheen: Defenders of ...
Tuesday, April 23, 2024

St. Robert Southwell Clerihew

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  Saint Robert Southwell sat musing for a spell, then softly said, "It does seem a shame, Americans don't properly pronounce my nam...
Saturday, April 20, 2024

H.G. Wells Clerihew

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We've been reading Heretics in our Chesterton group. I got inspired: H. G. Wells crafted some literary hells. When it comes to romance,...
Tuesday, April 09, 2024

Six Clerihews in Gilbert

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  Six of my clerihews are in the March/April 2024 issue of Gilbert : As an actor, Tom Baker was more of a character than a heart-breaker. Bu...
Monday, February 19, 2024

Ten Books with C. S. Lewis

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  Thomas Salerno has posted a reading list inspired by C. S. Lewis.  While scrolling through Twitter (I refuse to call it “X”) a few days a...
Saturday, January 06, 2024

Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth

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  Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth ,  by Bradley J. Birzer in  The Imaginative Conservative .  Myth, J.R.R. Tolkien thought, can convey the so...
Friday, December 15, 2023

A Christmas Carol

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G.K. Chesterton’s “A Christmas Carol” helps us see the world as a child does Anna O'Neil   A Christmas Carol The Christ-child lay on M...
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