Pile Of Prep

Mandeville, LA - [Editor's note: I did not discover the identity of the author of the following, only their online pen-name: The Zippy Catholic. - MC] A fairly typical comment in casual conversation: “He was considering becoming a priest, but chose to pursue a career in medicine instead.” The vocational alternatives to vowed religious life are not careers. The vocational alternatives to vowed religious life are family life and bachelorhood/spinsterhood. […]

Mandeville, LA - The eighteenth-century theories of the social contract have been exposed to much clumsy criticism in our time; in so far as they meant that there is at the back of all historic government an idea of content and co-operation, they were demonstrably right. But they really were wrong, in so far as they suggested that men had ever aimed at order or ethics directly by a conscious exchange […]

Mandeville, LA - [Editor's note- Today on Maundy Thursday, I chose this passage from the Gospel of the Beloved Apostle, John, in the spirit of grasping the unfathomable Humility Our Lord displays through His love for His chosen, commanding them and by extension, Us. "For I have given you an example, that as I have done to you, so you do also. - Exemplum enim dedi vobis, ut quemadmodum ego feci vobis, […]