Detroit drafted former-Georgetown Hoya DaJuan Summers in the second round of the NBA Draft. He was the 35th pick overall. I thought Summers should have stayed at Georgetown. If he improved on his poor junior-year showing, he would be in a much stronger position a year from now. But Summers’ being picked for the NBA [...]
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Summers a Piston + “the Blond”
Posted in Sports, tagged basketball, DaJuan Summers, Detroit, Georgetown Hoyas, Minnesota Timberwolves, NBA, Pistons, Ricky Rubio, Wizards on June 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Commonsense Papism
Posted in Arguments for the faith, Rome, tagged Archbishop, Bible, divine revelation, infallible, oath, pallium, Pope, Sacred Tradition, Scripture, Solemnity, St Paul, St Peters, St. Peter, Teacher, teaching on June 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
…Ego … Archiepiscopus … beato Petro apostolo, Sanctæ, Apostolicæ, Romanæ Ecclesiæ, ac tibi, Summo Pontifici, tuisque legitimis Successoribus semper fidelis ero et oboediens. Ita me Deus omnipotens adiuvet. “I …, Archbishop of …, swear to be faithful and obedient to St. Peter the Apostle, to the Holy Roman Church, and to you, the Supreme Pontiff, [...]
Greetings and Goodbyes
Posted in Homilies, Priesthood, Sports, tagged basketball, Cleveland Cavaliers, death, Fr. Thomas King, Fr. Tom King SJ, generosity, Georgetown, II Corinthians, Incarnation, Jesuit, Jesus Christ, LeBron James, NBA, Noah, Pauline Year, priest, Rev. Thomas King, Shaquille O'Neal, St Paul, St Paul Outside the Walls, Thomas King, university, Wizards on June 27, 2009 | 3 Comments »
So you are saying: “Now the Cavaliers have a lock on the 2010 title.” You are saying the LeBron-Shaq juggernaut will be unbeatable. I defy these auguries. Preacher predicts: The Wizards will be a better team than the Cavs in 2009-10… …Click here for a priest-blog far superior to this pathetic endeavor. The reason it [...]
The Myth of Fingerprints?
Posted in Politics, tagged court, examiner, fingerprints, forensic, latent, law, Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, Paul Simon, ruling, science, Supreme Court on June 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
To you and me, it might seem like a legal footnote. But the Supreme Court’s decision yesterday in Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts will have a huge impact on some of the unsung heroes of criminal justice. Of course no innocent person should ever be punished for a crime committed by someone else. On the other hand: [...]
Sicut Transit Gloria Mundi
Posted in Books, Magazines, Movies, Music, etc., Sports, tagged baseball, Billy Crystal, churlish, Confederation Cup, Hamlet, Human Nature, Kenneth Branagh, Laertes, memento mori, Michael Jackson, Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Nationals, soccer, Spain, Thriller, USA, William Shakespeare, Year of the Priest, Yorick on June 25, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Perhaps, dear reader, you remember that we have touched on our love for Michael Jackson before. The album “Thriller” was fun in just about every way–all the songs were good, the videos were delightful, the Vincent-Price cameo was priceless. “Human Nature” is on my iPod perennially. I liked the album “Bad,” too. “Man in the [...]
Use the Lane, Ice-Cream Emperor
Posted in Books, Magazines, Movies, Music, etc., Local Color, tagged atheism, Charles M. Murphy, Dr. Gridlock, Emperor of Ice-Cream, Jesus Christ, lane, merge, newspapers, poetry, St. Thomas More, Sunday Morning, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, traffic, Wallace Stevens on June 22, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Click here for a couple of excellent posts on St. Thomas More… …Here is a question for discussion (proposed by the great Dr. Gridlock):
Three Years Our Shepherd
Posted in Local Color, Priesthood, tagged Archbishop Donald Wuerl, bishops, Christus Dominus, crozier, Jesus Christ, Scripture, St Mary of the Assumption, Upper Marlboro, Vatican II on June 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Three years ago today, Donald Wuerl took the crozier in hand to guide the Archdiocese of Washington. Here are a few words about bishops from the Fathers of the Second Vatican Council: Christ the Lord, Son of the living God, came that He might save His people from their sins and that all men might [...]
Sunday Updates
Posted in Arguments for the faith, Books, Magazines, Movies, Music, etc., Sports, tagged Children of Men, Dom Columba Marmion, Ephesians 3, Fathers' Day, gorilla, Holy Baptism, P.D. James, Raphael Nadal, Rwanda, sacrilege, tennis, Wimbledon on June 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Carleton Bryant quote of the week: President Obama recently named a “pay czar” and a “Great Lakes czar,” and he thought about naming a “car czar.” And he already had a drug czar, a border czar, a health reform czar, an info-tech czar and a regulatory czar, among others. That’s a lot of czars. It [...]
God in the Dock?
Posted in Homilies, tagged Elihu, fly fishing, Job, justification, soup, whirlwind on June 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Lord addressed Job out of the storm and said: “Who shut within doors the sea, when it burst forth from the womb; when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling bands? When I set limits for it and fastened the bar of its door, and said: Thus far shall you [...]
Laying on of Hands
Posted in Priesthood, tagged Azazel, Fathers' Day, goat, Hamlet, Leviticus, ordination, William Shakespeare on June 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Aaron shall bring forward the live goat. Laying both hands on its head…he shall then have it led into the desert by an attendant. (Leviticus 16:20-21) …Also, allow me to point out that “One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.” (Hamlet, Act I, scene 5). When it comes to fathers, I will take [...]
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