Funeral Mass of Michael Novak (1933-2017), Basilica of the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception Washington, D.C 25 February 2017 Homilist: Fr Derek Cross, of the Toronto Oratory Isaiah 53:1-6 Psalm 104 1 John 4:7-12, 15-20 John 14:15-31 Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?”—words from...
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 a specimen for a day on which I have “nothing more to say,” or to do for that matter, beyond...
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 the curriculum, and what could she do? It started with Romeo and Juliet, in connexion with which we were taken...
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 rightly associate with post-modernism, and gentle reader may be aghast if I don’t run it down. Marion himself is celebrated...
“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 on this rock I will build my church, and the powers of death shall not prevail against it”. In these words,...