Thursday

Ruminations on the Fall of Rome Belloc wrote, “The Catholic Church was the only subsidiary organism that had risen within the general body of the Roman Empire.” Belloc's idea that the Catholic Church was an organism that grew out of the organism of the Empire is important. Combine

GKC Wednesday

Background: When I was the editor of Gilbert Magazine [http://www.chesterton.org/explore-the-acs/gilbertmagazine/], I was responsible for the "Tremendous Trifles" column. It was occasionally hard to find a sufficient amount of interesting GKC material to fill the page, so John Peterson sent me a

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What, is it Tolkien's birthday? Another Tolkien blurb at a popular website popped up today: 10 Good Dads Who Changed The World [http://listverse.com/2014/09/16/10-good-dads-who-changed-the-world/]. Excerpt: "2. J.R.R. Tolkien: "Lots of dads tell their

Humorous

H.I.F. Twenty jokes for nerds [http://www.patheos.com/blogs/billykangas/2014/03/20-jokes-for-nerds.html#ixzz3DCY5NYXA] . A few of my favorites: A Buddhist monk approaches a hotdog stand and says “make me one with everything”. A Roman walks into a bar and asks for a

Interesting

H.I.F. "TIL Christopher Lee received Tolkien's blessing to play the role of Gandalf, if a movie was ever released, but he played Saruman instead. He was also the only person involved with the Lord of the Rings films to have actually met Tolkien himself."

Monday

Miscellaneous Rambling Can I ask an un-Catholic question? Are people in America really starving? My priest assures me they are, so I obediently donate regularly to the parish food pantry. The liberals assure us they are, since it's very hard to live on the amount of money

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Sunday

> "True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less." - C.S. Lewis pic.twitter.com/v9Ic73JjtV [http://t.co/v9Ic73JjtV] > — Catholic Thinker (@ThinkerCatholic) September 8, 2014 [https://twitter.com/ThinkerCatholic/status/508768301921869824]

Nice Way to Spend Saturday Evening

> Relaxing with a good book and an excellent glass of wine from the Machiavelli fattoria... pic.twitter.com/BXV1z26DiM [http://t.co/BXV1z26DiM] > — Nigel Warburton (@philosophybites) September 11, 2014 [https://twitter.com/philosophybites/status/510204408362438656]

Meyers

People who purchased Olive Garden's seven-week unlimited pasta pass are being told that they must show their ID in the restaurant to prevent fraudulent use of the cards. Unfortunately, by Week 5 none of them will look anything like their IDs. It's been discovered that