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...
24 Jun Reflections on Our Situation before God
Soon after the healing of the centurion’s slave a second miracle, we are told, occurs. It differs from its predecessor in an obvious way. For whereas the slave was still...
18 Jun Reflections on False Prophets
Not every one who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord’, shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father. Now who are they, who say...