http://davidpisarra.com/scheduled-appearances Last summer I worked for a week as an assistant at a Latin-speaking program called the Rusticatio Virginiana. My “contubernalis” (roommate) there was a wonderful high school Latin teacher named Bob Patrick (“Robertus” in Latin). Besides an endlessly interesting spiritual path that has included being a Methodist minister, converting to Catholicism, and leaving the Church […]
Category Archives: Religion
Writing about the woods.
29-Apr-09buy prednisone for dogs It is a remarkable fact that before the 20th Century there were no allusive titles. Titles were simpler then, like “Daniel Defoe” or “David Copperfield.” St. Bernard did not call his commentary on the Song of Songs “The Kiss of His Mouth” and Shakespeare did not call Julius Caesar “Scatter the Proud.” Crime and Punishment […]
Bright Week Begins, Lent Ends.
12-Apr-09I just concluded the most successful churchgoing period of my life, and while nothing really ends, Easter marks a turning-point and it is good to look back from here. Lent is almost certainly supposed to be experienced together with Carnival. The extremity of the one makes no sense without its opposite. Carnival exhausts the body […]
My Favorite Vigil Reading.
11-Apr-09“The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones. And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many bones in the open valley; and lo, […]
A Holy Thursday Alliance.
10-Apr-09On this night, in Rome, all the churches throw open their doors and stay open through most of the night, as places to pray. It is quite an event in the city – many churches whose closed doors you passed many a time are open, inviting you to step in. Usually only the altars are […]
Happy New Year.
25-Mar-09The Twenty-Fifth of March is always a strange day for me. Traditionally in Christian countries it was New Year’s Day (England did not abandon this practice until the 1750s, which is why George Washington, born in February of 1731, was born, by our standards, in February of 1732). Since this is spring, it’s actually a […]
A really revolting bit of superstitious superficiality from the Christian News Wire. The idea is that God decided to kill the entire family of the director of an abortion clinic, but not the director himself (collateral damage, I suppose; but pretty good for God, whose aim is not good). Which gives me an idea: maybe […]
Political Art-Commentary…
23-Mar-09Some very nice stuff from Derek Chatwood: So spot-on it could actually be taken for real Jesus-freak material (as Andrew Sullivan thought it was). More here.
Science and Religion.
27-Feb-09A very fine piece discriminating between the two: levelheaded and all true. The best written work I’ve seen from the sage Michael Holleran. http://www.truthbook.com/news/labels/Michael%20Holleran.cfm
War Crimes.
17-Apr-09The release of the torture memos by Obama yesterday was a heroic act in terms of the president’s desire to restore our country’s democracy. It may be the case that torture is democratically acceptable to most Americans – that in fact this country wants to go the way of the Romans, into increased violence and […]