Category Archives: Saints

What I’m Reading–Today, At Least

Posted on January 29, 2012 by

It’s not unheard of that I, having finished one book and not yet decided on the next, make myself late for work in the morning by staring at my bookshelves, looking for that title that particularly strikes my fancy. (I … Continue reading →

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Jeanne Jugan!

Posted on August 31, 2011 by

BTW you guys, yesterday was St Jeanne Jugan’s feast day. Here’s what I posted on facebook: Happy feast of Saint Jeanne Jugan! Canonized by Pope Benedict XVI in 2009, St Jeanne Jugan was the foundress of the order of the … Continue reading →

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The Tremendous Necessity of Words

Posted on June 14, 2011 by

In her book The Magician’s Book, Laura Miller writes, One of the first stories I found both true and terribly sad is a chapter that comes in the middle of P.L. Travers’s Mary Poppins, an interlude devoted to the infant … Continue reading →

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Happy Lepanto Day!

Posted on October 7, 2010 by

In honor of the anniversary of Lepanto, let’s all read Chesterton’s masterful poem. White founts falling in the Courts of the sun, And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run; There is laughter like the fountains in that … Continue reading →

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Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bible, by Jonathan Goldstein

Posted on September 23, 2010 by

Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bible, by Jonathan Goldstein Riverhead Trade, 2009. 256 pages. If you are looking for pious hagiographies of Old Testament saints (and one from the New), look further. Goldstein’s little book of stories, portraits of biblical characters … Continue reading →

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