30 Jul Make it new
The extraordinary presentation of the Old Testament in the liturgy: as a whole library of ancient texts that are all about Christ. Re-new-al, re-nova-tion, restoration: even the bright lights of the...
25 Jul Middlebury
J. M. Cameron (1910–95) was a philosophy professor at Saint Michael’s College in Toronto, here, for many years. I met him through one of his prize students, who happened to...
17 Jul The mess through history
It is well, I reflect on this Feast of Saint John of the Cross, that there were no bloggers in sixteenth-century Spain. Saint John himself would never have been among...
03 Jul Hunwickean in Parkdale
An anti-blogger or Idleposter is likely to read others, from idle curiosity if no better cause, and the commentarii diurni to which I first turn most days is Father Hunwicke’s Mutual Enrichment. Surely...