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Nicholas Colloff
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Nicholas Colloff
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The sacred in life and the arts.
Zug Switzerland انضم Ekim 2012
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@SketchesbyBoze I still have my Bodleian card secured after promising not to light fires in the said library (students did it to keep warm, apparently, not because of some C17th version of cancel culture 😊)
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Many universities, like the one in our town, have “friends of the library” programs allowing you to get a reader’s card even if you’re not a student. If you live in a college town, I can’t recommend this enough. A good university library is just about my favorite place on earth.
saksham@saqshum
universities should open their libraries up to the public. im so sick of working from overpriced cafes with bad music
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@petercarrell Yes, the level of misogyny has been extraordinary in the wild thickets of 'traditional' Catholicism, which cannot even bring itself to treat the Holy Father with a modicum of respect.
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What a horribly undiplomatic and disrespectful article to call ++Sarah “archbishopess of Canterbury” …
The Catholic Herald@CatholicHerald
The Vatican’s welcome for Sarah Mullally has sparked fresh questions about the balance between ecumenical outreach and doctrinal clarity. thecatholicherald.com/article/leos-d…
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The essay on Kathleen Raine’s Collected Poems here is wondrously good, as might be expected from kindred poets.
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Though I am also fascinated by how often the section ‘what was talked about’ does not match! Memory is remarkably fickle!
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Saturday morning’s guilty pleasure: Blind date in The Guardian. Always a joy when it works, ok if it mutually doesn’t, so sad when there is a mismatch of perception!
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@the_book_land Eliot: Four Quartets
Muir: The Transfiguration
Levertov: Sands of the Well
Sikelianos: First Rain
Raine: The Wilderness
Herbert: Love III
Vaughan: The World
Coleridge: Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Berry: Sabbaths
Milosz: Psalm of Reintegration
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Without going through your shelves, volumes, etc., and without repeating poets, which 10 poems (of any length) would you choose that have been an essential part of your life as a reader?
Off the top of my head:
Paradiso (Dante)
The Waste Land (Eliot)
'Romance sonámbulo' (Lorca)
'Ode triunfal' (Pessoa)
'Sonnet 29' (Shakespeare)
The Wanderer (anonymous)
'General Prologue' (Chaucer)
'Easter, 1916' (Yeats)
'The Tyger' (Blake)
'The Ecstasy' (Donne)
Of course 10 would never be enough for most of us poetry lovers, but don't exceed the limit and let's make this an opportunity to fill people's feeds with a long, collective list of wonderful poems.
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Well, Great Malvern is splendid and Malvern Prory church is splendid.
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I am sorry to hear this - a kind, thoughtful man. I remember him at a fundraising dinner doing a highly entertaining double act with Richard Dawkins on behalf of Amnesty, of which they had both been long-term supporters.
churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/…
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@AimeTim Thoughtful, kind, and generous man. I remember a lovely double act at a fund-raising dinner in Oxford with Richard Dawkins, on behalf of Amnesty International.
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@TertiusIII @mfjlewis For the rather simple reason that you are trying to build a moral theology out of two passages in the Old Testament, which have been superseded/fulfilled by and must be interpreted both by the New Testament and the unfolding tradition of the Church. That is Catholicism.
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My ‘private interpretation’? Lol. Tell me what your interpretation of these scriptures is if not the death penalty. Go ahead. Tell us all what they mean and how my interpretation is incorrect.
Whoever sheds the blood of man,
by man shall his blood be shed,
for God made man in his own image.
Gen 9:6
Whoever takes a human life shall surely be put to death.
Lev 24:17
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The death penalty cannot become acceptable to Catholics simply because radical traditionalist dissenters wish it so. Random laypeople cannot overrule the pope on matters of faith and morals.
Peter Kwasniewski@DrKwasniewski
The death penalty question is back in the air, ever since Leo XIV doubled down on the error of his predecessor. No, the death penalty is NOT "inadmissible." It is NOT "per se contrary to human dignity and the Gospel." It is admissible. It is permissible. It is sometimes warranted. It is sometimes even necessary for the preservation of the common good. All this is clear from Scripture, Tradition, and the solemn, perennial Magisterium of the Church. The *only* issue that can be debated is whether it is prudentially right in this or that situation or context. For a quick overview of why this is the only coherent position a Catholic can take, see the lecture linked here, given in 2019, and the shorter article from 2023. Of course, the literature is vast; Ed Feser's work is particularly commendable for its careful attention to both argument and authority. "What Good Is a Changing Catechism" rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2019/06/what-g… "The Horns of the Death Penalty Dilemma" onepeterfive.com/horns-death-pe…
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A 3,400 year-old Mycenaean amphora with a spectacular octopus inspired by the ‘Marine Style’ of Minoan Crete.
From the Mycenaean cemetery of Prosymna. National Archaeological Museum, Athens 📷 by me
#Archaeology
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A recent conversation has made me want to ask: are there any sibling writers, apart from the Bronte sisters, who are equally eminent? More or less equal, not a pair in which one person is more known as "the sibling".
A. S. Byatt & Margaret Drabble?
William & Henry James?
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@SimoninSuffolk This is pitch-perfect, but I confess to loving Denny in every setting; sometimes, one needs to be overwhelmed!
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The tiny Audrey Chantry off the retrochoir in Hereford Cathedral. Glass by Tom Denny, depicting the life of the 17th Century mystic Thomas Traherne. I have to say I find Denny's glass a bit overwhelming when it's on a grand scale, but here it's just about perfect.
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@itsdavegreen My ancestors were generals for Elizabeth in Ireland, so this probably equips me as an expert on Anglo-Irish relations (🙄), and they are in the Doomsday Book, so that has census and tax expertise right there...who do I call?
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Lord Devon’s lineage “goes back to the Crusades”. But so does mine. And yours. And literally everybody’s. Less well off people weren’t beamed onto earth during the Industrial Revolution.
Channel 4 News@Channel4News
We sit down with hereditary peer Charles Courtenay, the 19th Earl of Devon, as he prepares to be removed from the House of Lords. He argues that his long lineage and the fact that his ancestors fought in the Crusades provide Parliament with a valuable connection to our past.
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@DrFrancisYoung I thought Henry VIII and James II might also be joining the queue...
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Dead famous in Worcester Cathedral: King John. A bloke with a very loud voice telling a group of school children about it told them that he was 'England's worst king'. Well, it's an opinion...
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@RDGStout It is exhaustive (and at times exhausting), a brilliant book, but it would have benefited from tighter editing! Sometimes one example is enough!
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Enchantments of Mammon is a beast, both qualitatively and quantitatively. It is absolutely brilliant and absolutely huge.
Clocking in at 800 pages—or 30 hours as an audiobook—this tome argues, convincingly and exhaustively, that capitalism and its offshoots are a religion. 1/
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@BretVDB Methinks he protests too much - Kathleen Raine feared Lewis would be a dogmatist (he supervised her PhD on Blake) but found him anything but, a sympathetic and learned scholar.
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Harold Bloom on his acquaintance with C.S. Lewis - and its untimely termination:
Brett Fawcett@PapistWitness
@BretVDB @Cristotokos You don’t get to just say that man you gotta elaborate
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@PatSnapEureka It is rumoured that it survived because Sir Peter Parker lived along the line, but in spite of your photo, it is now very popular. I use it to go to Evesham to visit my mother.
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