Last Call to the Sheepfold

For the Lefebvrists, it’s the Last Call to the Sheepfold. Otherwise it’s schism. But Rome will do everything possible to avoid the irreparable. From Australia, the theologian John Lamont shows that reconciliation is possible 

By Sandro Magister | L’Espresso | 13 April 2012

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Mandatum

By Lyle Dunne

Maundy Thursday’s not subtle:
Do this as I do
– A hard-to-miss lesson
(Even Peter, it seems
All-or-nothing as ever
Gets there in the end)
But I’m brought to the altar
Past shame, beyond doubt
To proffer my foot to
One standing for You.

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The Poetry of Solitude

Lyle Dunne interviews Professor Barry Spurr of the University of Sydney on the “Poetry of Solitude”.

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

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Latin as I please

“Did the Romans really speak like this?”

By David Daintree*

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Being human in an Age of Unbelief

Without a right to life, all other rights are contingent.

by Charles J. Chaput* | The Witherspoon Institute | November 8, 2011

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