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Third Occultation of Saturn by the Moon! - Third Occultation of Saturn by the Moon!, Thierry LegaultClick on the image link to see it much larger. I discovered Thierry Legault in a Wall Street Jo...
The Curt Jester

The Weekly Leo - The Weekly Leo XIV is a compilation of the Holy Father’s writings, speeches, etc., which I also cross-post on Jimmy Akin’s blog. This version of The Weekly...
Biblibio

Maria Turtschaninoff's feminist fantasies - I wrote about Maria Turtschaninoff's *Maresi* many years ago (almost a decade!), not long after I first read it. Like many books, my impression of *Mares...
Video Meliora, proboque; Deteriora sequor

How Do You Solve a Problem Like a Tucker? - Like the famous Maria in "The Sound of Music", Tucker has had a lot of dramatic turns of late. A little timeline to help flesh out the dramatic changes: 1...
Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise

Lahti - I am in Lahti, Finland, to give a talk at the Lahti Symphony's Sibelius Festival. I've been wanting to visit since I encountered Osmo Vänskä's revelatory B...
Fred's Place

Favorite novels read in 2017 - Listed in alphabetical order by author: Willa Cather: *Youth and the Bright Medusa* --cheating here, for this is a collection...
Happy Catholic Bookshelf

Night’s Bright Darkness – Review - Some years ago I hear an interview on Al Kresta’s show with Sally Read. She is a a British poet and former psychiatric nurse. The interview involved her co...