Don’t be a Snob
“It’s not about race, it’s about class,” I am wont to repeat when I think about the woes of the USA. A pecking order based on where you get accepted to college is incredibly stupid. It’s arguably...
View ArticleDomestic Priestess
Hello, it’s Traddy Tuesday, the day set aside for discussion of traditional Catholic liturgy and belief, and I am later than usual because I have been making the Christmas Cake. I am sure you don’t...
View ArticleWhere is that Child’s Mother?
Oh. It turns out the child doesn’t have a mother.He has two daddies, and they think it is fine if he dresses like this for Hallowe’en.The article talks a lot about how “fierce” the nine-year-old child...
View ArticleBoaz’s Cold Feet
Yesterday I read the charming Book of Ruth in the Old Testament and decided I really must have a look at how one or two of the Early Church Fathers read the story. Sadly I haven’t managed to do that...
View ArticleWolno, Szybko (Slowly, Quickly)
In pondering the difficulties and rewards of language learning, I have turned to one of my favourite essays by the philosopher Simone Weil, “Reflection on the Right Use of School Studies with a View to...
View ArticleChinese Singles’ Day?
November 11 means different things in different countries. In the British Commonwealth and the United States, it marks the end of the First World War, and Canadians now call it Remembrance Day. In...
View ArticleThe Grey Lady Links
I loved my Canadian theologate. B.A. says I made this clear in my CWR piece about BC, and I think I made it clearer in the combox, when a chap told me how difficult it is for “traditionalists” to...
View ArticleGeorgian Men
I have no time to write really but I have one thought about Single life today and it is that in the 18th century young Englishmen men longed to get married and set up household. There was just as much...
View ArticlePersonal Reflections on the Mass
Good morning! It’s Traddy Tuesday, the day on which I blog about some aspect of traditional Catholic worship and practice. This is important to me because I was once told the story of a Protestant...
View ArticleShe Knew Not How To Suffer in Silence
When I was grumbling about something or other as a child, my mother quoted with great maternal sarcasm, “It was frequently said of her, ‘She knew not how to suffer in silence.'” It sounded so poetic, I...
View ArticleHappy All Saints Day!
Saint Andrew, Saint Margaret of Scotland, Saint John Ogilvie, Saint Ninian, Saint Columba, Saint Giles, Saint Cuthbert, Saint Kentigern, Saint David of Scotland, Saint Acca of Hexham, Saint Adomnan,...
View ArticleThe ExPat on the Missionary
There’s an Irish chap who wants money to make a film about his cousin, the last Irish missionary nun to leave Japan. There’s an article about his project and her life here.While reading this interview,...
View ArticleFeast of Blessed Chiara Luce Badano
I’m glad to have found out about this teenage saint. It’s her feast day today.Here she describes how a beautiful lady suddenly appeared and took her hand. It’s in Italian, but how often do you hear the...
View ArticleO Wyspiańskim
Moim ulubionym muzeum w Krakowie jest Kamienica Szołayskich. Odbywają się tam wystawy sztuki młodopolskiej. „Młoda Polska” była polskim ruchem artystycznym; kwitnął on w Polsce na przełomie XIX i XX...
View ArticleMaternal Terrorism
“How will I get grandchildren if she doesn’t get out there?”I received an email the other day from a Single asking me to write about the scenario in which a Single’s mother:A. tells people in front the...
View ArticleArt, Sex and Humility
Today is Artistic Wednesday, but I have been thinking about humility in connection with language studies, not to mention relations between the sexes. Perhaps there’s a way to link all these themes.As I...
View ArticleMad Trad–Spiked! N is for Novus Ordo
Hello! It is once again Traddy Tuesday, the day I chat about traditional Catholic beliefs and devotions. This post is later than usual for I spent the morning in traditional housekeeping, the hoover...
View ArticleOn Dating News from Huff Po
I read this article knowing at once how it would end because the article was about a study showing that men don’t like hanging out with women who beat them at IQ tests. Instead of advising women not to...
View ArticleSingle Issues of the Day
Quarr Abbey. Just for boys!Here it is Seraphic Singles Saturday, but I can’t think of a Singles topic I haven’t written on before. Eeek! Remember how I said married women swiftly forget what being...
View ArticleGood Men in a Fictional Crisis
I have returned from Polish class, where I delivered my 650 word paper on Stanisław Wyspiański. Typing the silly thing drove me around the bend, for when I change my normal British QWERTY for the...
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