Thursday, October 30, 2025

Saints

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With All Saints and All Souls days this weekend, a look at what Chesterton and Lewis has to say about saints. Chesterton It is better to spe...
Thursday, October 23, 2025

Wonder and Pope St. John Paul II

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On September 17, 1978, just before he was elected Pope John Paul II, Cardinal Karol Wojtyla preached a homily at the shrine of Our Lady of C...
Thursday, October 16, 2025

Irish Eyes Were Crying

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"The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad." - G. K. Che...
Thursday, October 09, 2025

Lepanto

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October 7 was the anniversary of the Battle of Lepanto, which halted expansion by the Ottoman Empire. Yes, It's been posted before, but ...
Thursday, October 02, 2025

St. Francis of Assisi (poem)

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  October 3 is the Feast of the Transitus of St. Francis - the day he actually made the transition from earthly to heavenly life. But as he ...
Thursday, September 25, 2025

Good Parenting Advice From O'Connor (and Lewis)

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  I  came across an interesting article by Theresa Civantos Barber over on Aleteia, "Flannery O’Connor’s perfect parenting advice....
Thursday, September 18, 2025

Rochester Chesterton Society Season Begins

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  Tonight the Rochester Chesterton Society will meet to begin its 2025/26 season. The Society meets from September to May on the second Thur...
Thursday, September 11, 2025

Final Notes on LOTR Books vs Movies

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  I finished reading The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien. What a great pleasure to read - or in my case, reread. In a previous post I...
Thursday, September 04, 2025

The Lord of the Rings Book vs. Movies

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 I am currently rereading The Lord of the Rings . I'm up to the third volume: The Return of the King. This is my third rereading of the ...
Thursday, August 28, 2025

Maybe Somebody Should Have Put Baby In A Corner

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A Grace by G. K. Chesterton You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the play and the opera, And grace before the conce...
Thursday, August 21, 2025

On Vacation, So Quotations!

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I'm on vacation this week, with wife and dog at a cottage as a base from which to venture forth to see the sights. So just a few quotati...
Thursday, August 14, 2025

What Tolkien Can Teach Us About the Creative Life

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  "Beyond his much-beloved books,  The Hobbit,   The Lord of the Rings,  and  The Silmarillion,  J. R. R. Tolkien was a poet, philologi...
Friday, August 08, 2025

Saint Tolkien

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  August 8, 2025 Perhaps I may say also now (as I have meant to do for some time) that though I only briefly thanked Austin [one of the corr...
Thursday, July 31, 2025

In the News (Two Clerihews)

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  Two people in the news lately inspired clerihews, Ozzy Osbourne and Syndey Sweeney.. Ozzy Osbourne was by water borne to the Alamo where h...
Thursday, July 24, 2025

Carter vs Scranton Joe (Clerihew)

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  Good Jimmy Carter, when it comes to presidents was one of the smarter. Historians rank his presidency pretty low, but it’s looking better ...
Thursday, July 17, 2025

More Housekeeping

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Four weeks ago I looked at the Blogs to which this blog linked. I found that many of them are no longer active. Today I checked the other li...
Thursday, July 10, 2025

Peter Maurin, G. K. Chesterton, and Hilaire Belloc

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Peter Maurin was a social activist and theologian, and a co-founder (with Dorothy Day) of the Catholic Worker movement. In his thinking he w...
Thursday, July 03, 2025

Joining Some Inklings Fan Groups

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I was continuing my look at some of the blogs and pages to which this blog is linked when I came across ones about C. S. Lewis and the Inkli...