St. Thomas Aquinas: “The Dumb Ox," by G.K. Chesterton
A Micro-Review/Essay
Topic
G.K. Chesterton
A collection of 17 issues
P.G. Wodehouse Referenced Booze . . . A Lot
Ah, yes. Three of my sons, post-wedding Mass last Saturday. It was, after all the struggles and cost, a glorious day. That's Alex, the groom, to the far left, then Michael and Jack to the far right. The other three guys are school chums.
Yes, "chums."
Chesterton and the Millennial Nun
In an essay that appeared some years back in the Huffington Post, Eve Fairbanks asked why after fifty years of decline, millennial women were discovering religious vocations. Fairbanks is not alone in her confusion. Many Catholics are also puzzled: not long ago, traditional women’s religious life, with all the
How to Break a Maniac
My daughter sent that comic to me. The whole thing shows three ancient philosophers competing in the Philosophy event at the Greek Olympics: Thales, who declares everything is water. Zeno, who declares motion is impossible. Socrates, who declares they’re full of bulls***.
Socrates won.
But of course, he didn’
The Great Reset is State-of-the-Art Hudge and Gudge
"Stakeholder capitalism" is big business with government shareholders . . . and it'll be wicked
G.K. Chesterton wrote about "Hudge and Gudge": Big Business and Big Government.
Here's how the American Chesterton Society describes these two GKC characters:
Chesterton introduced these two in his
GKC on Waugh
Evelyn Waugh liked to send out satirical Christmas cards, and the apex (or nadir] of this practice was reached during the Christmas season of 1929. Waugh's card that year consisted of extracts reprinted from unfavorable reviews of his first novel, Decline and Fall. The harshest passage of all
Hardy Hated GKC
For those who like to say that Chesterton never made an enemy, there is the fact of Thomas Hardy's very last literary work. In the final days before his death in 1928, Hardy dictated what biographer Robert Gittings describes as "two virulent, inept, and unworthy satirical jingles&