Writing & Language

January 2015

January 06, 2015
St. Francis de Sales is the patron of writers and journalists, and said a great many wise...
January 05, 2015
Speak of others as you would have them speak of you is the rule for...

December 2014

December 23, 2014
Just got a comment quoting a sentence from an item and saying "This sentence needs...
December 19, 2014
Hysterical and absolutely accurate: Father James Martin's reconstruction of email discussions about his writing, What's THAT...

November 2014

November 07, 2014
Last year's fad but I missed it then, playing on  The Add a word, ruin...
November 06, 2014
At the end of a very critical review in The Spectator of John Cleese's autobiography:...
November 05, 2014
Expanding the number of words you know excites the same parts of your brain as...
November 04, 2014
For those of you who find this kind of thing interesting. From my friend William...
November 02, 2014
Virgin Gallactic's website reports that SpaceshipTwo  "suffered a serious anomaly resulting in the loss of...
November 01, 2014
From the same interview quoted in the previous item, defense analyst and Pulitzer Prize finalist...

October 2014

October 29, 2014
Advance notice for my friend Sally Thomas's new collection of poems, Fallen Water. Here's something from...
October 29, 2014
"Get lost," is basically what he said. Here's a letter from the famous editor of...
October 28, 2014
At his homily this morning at Santa Marta, Pope Francis, reports the CNA, "turned his reflection...
October 23, 2014
This is surprising, and very cheering: Michael Voris apologizes for unintentionally seeming to attack the...
October 22, 2014
A young friend who applies for jobs from his phone — this is apparently normal...
October 22, 2014
Something I wrote a couple of years ago readers may find useful. Here are John...
October 21, 2014
Years ago I mentioned to an Evangelical friend over coffee at church that my then-fiance and...
October 16, 2014
R. H. Benson's Spiritual Letters to One of His Converts appeared in a bookseller's list when I...
October 07, 2014
Raschad Jennings, the starting running back for the New York Giants, is writing a book....
October 02, 2014
In his writings and talk on marriage, Cardinal Walter Kasper remains ambiguous but, or rather therefore,...

September 2014

September 24, 2014
In this case, a guide to reading apartment ads in New York City. This is...
September 22, 2014
All right, after a few days not posting anything, to post a critical remark on...
September 01, 2014
A few quotes of use to the student from A. G. Sertillanges’ The Intellectual Life. Sertillanges was a...

August 2014

August 24, 2014
In case you were curious, the meaning of Beelzebub, from the always interested Philologus writing...
August 18, 2014
What happened when "fiery street activist" Shirley Chisholm became a congressman and asked the Lubavitcher...
August 13, 2014
The prolific Catholic writer, EWTN personality, and notable public speaker Mike Aquilina is, I should...
August 03, 2014
"It was moving to see all the different forms of piety focused, concentrated in an...
August 01, 2014
A useful lesson for writers, scholars, teachers, and anyone else doing some kind of creative work,...

July 2014

July 31, 2014
For writers, two cartoons, not hugely funny but amusing: Creative Thinking and The Writer's Retreat.
July 09, 2014
In Broken Families, Broken Words, I quoted C. S. Lewis's insight into what happens when...
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