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 Jan Reflections on Thomism
“Yes, these days all the live-in girlfriends are Thomists,” I was writing this morning, to my Chief Buncombe Correspondent. (The county is in North Carolina.) I was commenting on his...
08 Jan Wang An-shih
Among my heroes is a Chinese statesman of the eleventh century. Gentle reader may not immediately guess that this would be the famed, or infamed, Wang An-shih, whose reputation is...
31 Dec Cor ad cor loquitur
It is the day of the year when I request a special Ave of gentle reader, because it is the anniversary of my own reception into Holy Church — in...