Sep
20
Introibo ad altare Dei….
September 20, 2005 | Leave a Comment
…sed deinde ululans defugiam!!!
(HT: CathCon.)
Sep
19
A Benedictine Resource
September 19, 2005 | Leave a Comment
I’ve been working my way through Benedict’s Rule: A Translation and Commentary by Terrence G. Kardong. Since there are lots of folks out there either already commited to the Benedictine Order or who are contemplating such a move, I thought I’d mention this book since it is so very good. It has the full Latin [...]
Sep
17
The Meaning of Meaning
September 17, 2005 | Leave a Comment
I haven’t read any Herodotus in years. I took a course on him in graduate school, and of course he was on my reading list for the PhD in classics, but I confess that, when it came to getting him under my belt, I did the bare minimum that was required. It’s a shame, not [...]
Sep
17
At Least We’ve Got Frank
September 17, 2005 | Leave a Comment
45-0.
Zip. Zero. Zilch. Nada. Rien. Nichts.
Something tells me that this week there will be a different crowd of people partying in the streets of Athens. The serious scholars.
Sep
17
Herding Cats
September 17, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Today I took my daughter Olivia to her first dance class. She’s all of four years old, but she already shows signs of talent in the music and dance categories, so this seemed like the natural thing to do. We arrived a little late, so there were already millions of little kids running around at [...]
Sep
16
My Sentiments Exactly
September 16, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Michael Pakaluk on one reason for studying ancient philosophy.
Sep
16
Maybe We’re Just Picking the Wrong Peers
September 16, 2005 | Leave a Comment
The other day I lamented, in my roundabout way, Ohio University’s fall in the academic rankings, and I suggested that we are not helped any by the fact that we’ve chosen some rather stiff competition to count among our peer institutions (such as UNC). Maybe we should just pick other institutions to compare ourselves to. [...]
Sep
16
For the Cause
September 16, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Speaking of Mark Shea, if you value the apologetics that he does for rock solid orthodoxy in the Catholic faith, please consider helping him out with a monetary donation. Folks like him–intelligent, articulate, orthodox–are hard to come by, and few are able to devote their full attention to apologetics the way he does. He is [...]
Sep
16
Fraternae concordiae iucunditas
September 16, 2005 | Leave a Comment
This one is for Jennifer at Wayward Catholic. I hope she won’t mind that I changed one word, since I changed it for her!
Ecce quam bonum et quam iucundum * habitare sorores in unum:sicut unguentum optimum in capite, + quod descendit in barbam, barbam Aaron, * quod descendit in oram vestimenti eius;sicut ros Hermon, * qui descendit in montes [...]
Sep
15
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, and Eternity in an hour
September 15, 2005 | Leave a Comment
DarwinCatholic has a fascinating post about St. Augustine’s treatment of the relationship between our atemporal God and his temporal creation. This is a subject that is a matter of perennial fascination for me. Take, for example, this line from Darwin’s post:
Picture two events that took place two thousands years apart (say today and Jesus’ fifth [...]
