03 Apr Reflections on the Woman at the Well
We meet Christ weary and hungry - His disciples have left Him to rest, while they go into town to buy food - and also thirsty, as He openly tells...
31 Mar Schall at eighty-nine
“To be at peace with the absurdities of the world, which he knows to be part of a divine plan he doesn’t presume to grasp fully.” (Weigel on Schall, echoing...
29 Mar Reflections on the Man Born Blind
And His disciples asked Him, ‘Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?’ Jesus answered, ‘It was not that this man sinned, or his parents,...
27 Mar Escolios in Bogotá
The final nightmare of modernism, foreseen by Nicolás Gómez Dávila, seems outwardly to be upon us, but the fact it was so clearly foreseen speaks against its finality. Dávila, the...
24 Mar Orpheus Descending
Poetry should “make the visible a little harder to see” (Wallace Stevens), and should provide “a bombardment of proofs that the world is one” (Richard Wilbur). This much is obvious, but...