27 Feb The Original Falstaff
This business of Shakespeare being Catholic — in thought word and deed, though subtle enough to avoid getting drawn and quartered — flourishes in each examination of detail. Here is...
24 Feb Teaching Shakespeare
I have the grimmest memories of being taught Shakespeare. It happened in a high school in Ontario in the ’sixties. I’m sure that my teacher meant well. It was on...
22 Feb Being and not nothingness
There is a Frenchman named Jean-Luc Marion, student of Derrida, who wrote a book entitled God without Being. It is one of those horse texts (er, “hors-texte,” or outside-the-text) we...
20 Feb Reflections on the Petrine Mission
“Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jona! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in Heaven. And I tell you, you are Peter, and...
17 Feb Reflections on Possibility and Freedom
The Gospel about a man who sowed good seed in his field offers us a parable of the Kingdom of Heaven. We recall that the Kingdom of Heaven is within:...