Chicago Cardinal came a-cropper in welcoming all and sundry to Communion? Commentators find fault with him for ignoring the state-of-grace requirement . . ., Rewriting doctrine on the fly? . . .

https://jimbowman.substack.com/p/chicago-cardinal-came-a-cropper-in?sd=pf

Ran out of time? Not enough of it for what you want to do? It happens., But think about when there was no time at all.

https://jimbowman.substack.com/p/ran-out-of-time-not-enough-of-it?sd=pf

Today’s Communism a shadow of its former self. Leftism gone astray. Society’s offal its focus, Marx and Engels would say . . .,In fact, Marx and Engels did say.

https://jimbowman.substack.com/p/todays-communism-a-shadow-of-its?sd=pf

Franz Liszt to the barricades of youthful deprivation . . ., With what’s on another plane from what they are used to . . .

https://jimbowman.substack.com/p/franz-liszt-to-the-barricades-of?sd=pf

Jesuits in training, PHILOSOPHY, 1954–57 . . . . Handmaiden to theology, said Thomas Aquinas . . .

https://jimbowman.substack.com/p/jesuits-in-training-philosophy-195457

When the family invaded the biggest city on a junket to see one of the girls and threw in Swarthmore to see another . . .,April of ’97, my friends, when the city probably never looked better . . .

https://jimbowman.substack.com/p/when-the-family-invaded-the-biggest?sd=pf

The Paradox of the Misanthropic Naturalist Animal Lover. Deny God, devalue man, and end up bear scat.

https://open.substack.com/pub/williamfvallicella/p/the-paradox-of-the-misanthropic-naturalist?r=7gnir&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Four hundred years of Blaise Pascal, whose words ring today as true as ever vs. spiritual doubt, skepticism and atheism . . .,His birthday months away, it’s time to review his famous bet . . .

https://jimbowman.substack.com/p/four-hundred-years-of-blaise-pascal

In your backyard is a jungle, if you only look . . . Jazz by telemarketer . . . Two writers walked into a bar . . . Poetry by Keats after a night out . . .

https://jimbowman.substack.com/p/in-your-backyard-is-a-jungle-if-you?sd=pf

John Keats and other writers . . .,Standing on others’ shoulders . . .

https://jimbowman.substack.com/p/john-keats-and-other-writers