On a corner, in Jerusalem
EMR
Nicolas Poussin's The Healing of the Blind of JerichoThis is the homily I wrote for this morning's Mass for an English-speaking congregation in Switzerland...
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Walter Mitty Catholics
Adam Scott
The Secret Life of Walter MittyIn the 2013 film The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Ben Stiller stars as a daydreaming nobody working at Life magazine. Based ...
Clericalism Properly Defined?
Adam Scott
Catholic commentators from Russell Shaw of The Catholic World Report to Fr. Daniel P. Horan with America magazine have rekindled a centuries old debate over...
“Questionable Methods” That Work
Adam Scott
Interior of Saint John Cantius, Chicago. Photo credit: American Chamber OperaIn the 1987 crime drama, The Untouchables, Eliot Ness (Kevin Costner) along wi...
Holy Hill – The Extraordinary Form
Adam Scott
Attention all bloggers and readers of blogs: please spread the good news about this event. Our goal is to pack the Upper Basilica of Holy Hill.Why? you ...
Vintage Catholicism
Adam Scott
The Synod is fast approaching the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. The hierarchy, genuine and loving, is taking this time to rejuvenate Cream City.From time immemo...
The Line that Separates
James
A good friend wrote this and sent it my way. "Live in the culture, be a part of the culture, but don't be of the world." "Live in the mainstrea...
Fatima Sunday
Meg
Lúcia Santos and her cousins, Francisco and Jacinta MartoNinety-six years ago today, October 13th, 1917, was "the day the sun danced": the day of the great...
Get Out the Old Silver
Meg
When I was a little girl, we moved from Madison to Milwaukee. Moving day was a turbulent affair — for my parents. For us children, it was a thrilling adventur...
Remembering Goldie Mabovitch
EMR
I am haunted by Goldie. She lurks downtown in a school near the old Schlitz Brewery. She stands in the library on the Downer Avenue campus of the University o...