God is not a god (nor is any angel)
The Creator God who was revealed to the Jews, and the Incarnate God revealed to Christians, is not a “god,” nor even the greatest and most powerful of the
Relation – The Weakest Category with the Greatest Implications
I was invited to participate in the International Open Seminar on Semiotics 2022 on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the death of philosopher and semiotician John Deely (1942-2017).
Shakespeare – a Comedy and a Tragedy
“A Comedy and a Tragedy” – as far as life goes, another word for it might be status quo. To round off our Great Books mini-course, we allow Shakespeare to
The Canterbury Pilgrims Have Arrived
After a long break, the Humanities lectures of Quinn and Senior have just caught up with Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales of the 14th century (scroll down here). The cycle of
The Day I Was Interviewed by Msgr. Marcel Lefebvre
It was in the month of April of 1975. At the age of 22 I had traveled to Switzerland, accompanied by my beloved mentor at the time, John Senior. We
On the Crime of Taming and Shrinking Christianity
I have three peeves with modern presentations of Christianity, which seem intent on reducing that grandiose historical singularity to a domesticated pet. The targets of my peevishness can be named
To readers of SEVEN ISLANDS
As with most new publications, the English edition of my book, Seven Islands, displays a few typographical errors, and a true blooper at the very beginning. The latter is on page 6
Rescuing the Obvious – On Truths that Should Be Truisms
“Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.” G.K. Chesterton Nothing unites people more than sharing what they hold to be obvious, even if only tacitly and implicitly. Disputed
The Holy Family (a Sagrada Família)
Going (ida) Returning (volta) Feast of the Restless Family Festa da Família Inquieta
SEVEN ISLANDS now available (SETE ILHAS em breve)
After nearly five years of editing and tweaking, my philosophical and religious travelogue, Seven Islands, is now available on Amazon. The text of its earlier drafts on my site have
Bigger and Bigger Emptiness
If science not only teaches us that atoms – in terms of mass – are more than 99% ’empty space’, and then, without missing a beat, goes on to assure