Category: Daily Column

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Oneanity vs. Inanity

Today’s date, 1/1/11, has more ones in it until any date until 1/11/11. That date’s number of ones...

Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

Fundamentalism + Catholicism = Catholic…

Many believe that Fundamentalism is, in a word, “weird”. It’s almost impossible for the worldly to keep from...

Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

Reading for January 1, 2011

The Octave Day of Christmas Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God Reading 1 Nm...

Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

The Death of Robespierre. Time for a Repeat?

Robespierre had killed so many, imprisoned so many, and was about to kill and imprison so many more...

Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

“Eat the Rich!”

“Eat the Rich!” was a common battle-cry during the French Revolution. The “evil rich” were blamed on every...

Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

The French Revolution

The French Revolution about which I’m reading in Thiers’ four volume set of the same title, published in...

Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

Today’s Reading Let’s Us Know If…

1 Jn 2:3-11 Beloved: The way we may be sure that we know Jesus is to keep his...

Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

Rabbits, Causes, Effects.

My house and a couple of outbuildings are on top of a high, windswept hill. This time of...

Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

What’s a Liberal To Do?

I’ve mentioned the family I’d let into an empty house I bought to satisfy some property concerns. I’d...

Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

Two in a Row

Today, like yesterday, is a Holy Day of Obligation. It’s not often that there are two consecutive Holy...