Tag: church

During a class I was teaching at our parish last fall, a woman pulled me aside afterwards to ask a question. The woman was...

A plea for pastors to remember their audience.

A thing without proper limits becomes its own opposite, and benevolence quickly becomes a tyranny which threatens both civil and religious order.

Then it’s a bit up to you to be jolly crusty and jolly full of hell-fire and sin and damnation.

But how can such plural sovereignty be realised under the circumstances of this century? Who will guard the guardians, so to speak? How will the stones of the arch fit together?

. . . we rediscovered the meaning of Place. Limits. Liberty.

Less happy for mother is the reality that the single soul, resulting from this communion of two bodies, receives nourishment from single-malt.

We need not rely with some desperation on the Hope that is a gift, if we can gin up optimism of our own sort.

He is resigned to the inertia of the old Spanish cult, and willing to just let it fade away. The voluptuousness of European culture had no way to gain traction in the purity of the New Mexican desert.

JEFFERSON COUNTY, KANSAS. In the comments somewhere below, Prof. Fox mentions the regional artist John Steuart Curry. A fitting topic for my first foray...