What Is Catholic About a College Degree
Peter V. Sampo
President, Thomas More College
Let us assume the college has a Catholic liturgy, teaches Orthodox Catholic theology, and is under the auspices of a religious order, a diocese, or is, at least, canonically recognized by a diocese. Further, let us assume loyalty to the Magisterium. As necessary as [...]
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Vivant Dr. Sampo, Dr. Mumbach, Miss Bonifield, Mr. Shea, Miss Enos, and the others! — Semper Sint in Flore
Posted in Indian Summer, Janus, annihilation, anyone, art, athens, autumn, beginnings, bells, books, crannies, cry, defeat, dialogue, eccentric, exceptions, fate, flowers, greek, history, hubris, idiosyncrasy, language, letters, love?, mania, melos, mosaic, necessity, nemesis, nooks, polis, rain, rule, spring, stars, summer, the fall, the impossible, time, tragedy, wind, winter, wisdom, wit on February 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
this need to kneel
Posted in Dickinson, Indian Summer, June, Levertov, Sophistry, T. S. Eliot, art, autumn, language, summer, the fall, the impossible, wind on December 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Levertov, Denise, 1923-1997:
from The Stream and the Sapphire (1997) , New Directions
Of Being
I know this happiness
is provisional:
the looming presences—
great suffering, great fear—
withdraw only
into peripheral vision:
but ineluctable this shimmering
of wind in the blue leaves:
this flood of stillness
widening the lake of sky:
this need [...]
a rainsong from cummings
Posted in anyone, autumn, bells, moon, noone, rain, spring, stars, summer, sun, winter on October 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
anyone lived in a pretty how town
(with up so floating many bells down)
spring summer autumn winter
he sang his didn’t he danced his did
Women and men(both little and small)
cared for anyone not at all
they sowed their isn’t they reaped their same
sun moon stars rain
children guessed(but only a few
and down they forgot as up they grew
autumn winter [...]
A Foolish Thing
Posted in Feste, God, Twelfth Nighht, What you Will, autumn, beginnings, ladies, pie plates, rain, scarecrows, spring, summer, sun, winter, wisdom on October 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As Feste said, “well, God give them wisdom that have it, and those that are fools, let them use their talents.”
To hold with the words of a fool, far gone indeed! Rain and shine, wind and weather, worse and better, the wise are wonderful patient. And upright as the autumn scarecrow. Wisdom though was God’s, still is, though godlike [...]
