Continued from Part I From the introduction to  Paideia , by Werner Jaeger: Education in any human community (be it a family, a soci...

from Reflections on the Spirituality of Gregorian Chant . Translated by Dom Gregory Casprini and Robert Edmonson. p. 35f Unction is de...

From Joseph Campbell's  Myths to Live By : For it is the rite, the ritual and its imagery, that counts in religion, and where that i...

It is often remarked that the greatest perk of teaching is the hours, but for my part the choice perk is working in a building with a chape...

The longest interruption in blogging since our launch in 2009 is going to require some explaining. – Part I:  I Was Married Straig...

So you're at church. Maybe you're visiting a parish or maybe you left the fancy labeled envelopes at home, but you'll be making...

Since the Archdiocese of New York's parish consolidation initiative spurred speculation about the closing of Holy Innocents , much ha...

Every school of thought and specialization has its own vocabulary. The study of electronics makes use of resistors and capacitors , musi...

The summer is sad time to be a Catholic. Perhaps this fact stems from the re-classification of the season into "Ordinary Time" fr...

There's a fine line between perspicacity and wisdom and I'm not sure on which side of the divide falls George Bernard Shaw's ...

Sin and vice may be, well, sin and vice, but they can still be educative and bear an occasional sweet fruit. Take, for example, the sloth w...

Moral philosophers are eager to suggest every which way we might become good people, but they seldom seem to get around to telling you what...

The philosophy of Aristotle lacks little, but a gaping omission is a human face. There is no smart aleck Socrates with whom we may laugh an...

Holy  is one of my least favorite words in our beloved English tongue. To start, the word has an undignified ring, for both wholly and holy...

Memory is a strange word for a strange concept. What does it mean to remember? Our English word memory  is not helpful, conjuring images ...

Time is shaped or it is incomprehensible. Scientists peer in vain back at the still time before time which began time and forward through t...

Traditionalists are seldom lacking reasons they prefer the older form of the Roman Rite: the lectors, the extraordinary ministers of commun...