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Saturday, August 05, 2023

Jules-Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly, Les Diaboliques

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 Introduction Opening Passage:  From "The Crimson Curtain": A considerable number of years ago I went to shoot waterfowl in the we...
Friday, August 04, 2023

Three Kinds of Men

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 Roughly speaking, there are three kinds of people in this world. The first kind of people are People; they are the largest and probably the...
Wednesday, August 02, 2023

White, Glaring, Still

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 August by Lizette Woodworth Reese  No wind, no bird. The river flames like brass.  On either side, smitten as with a spell  Of silence, bro...
Tuesday, August 01, 2023

Prince of Moral Theologians

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 Today is the feast of St. Alphonsus Liguori, Doctor of the Church. From his Practice of the Love of Jesus  ( chapter 12 ): The primary obje...
Monday, July 31, 2023

On Gottlieb and Parvizian on Descartes

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 Gottlieb and Parvizian has a recent paper, Descartes' God is a Deceiver, and that's OK (PDF), whose argument is so absurd that it ...
Sunday, July 30, 2023

Divine Coal

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The bread and the wine are not merely figures of the body and blood of Christ (God forbid!) but the deified body of the Lord itself: for the...
Saturday, July 29, 2023

Rex Perpetuus Norvegiae

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Today is the feast of Saint Olaf, Perpetual King of Norway. Dirge of Saint Ólaf  After Sighvat by Beatrice Helen Barmby Upon the Mount I sto...
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