Irish Papist

I'm currently reading The Faithful Tribe: An Intimate Portrait of the Loyal Institutions by Ruth Dudley Edwards. I'm not reading it ...

My taste in music is pretty horrendous, and my knowledge of classical music is atrocious. I've made efforts to improve it, over the deca...

A scathing indictment of both "Novus Ordo" and Trad Catholics from Substack : While your typical mainstream Novus Ordo parish litu...

A Year in Provence is a book I've never read, and a film I've never seen. I have no wish to change either of those facts, although w...

I hate artificial intelligence and avoid using it. But today I found myself wondering whether A.I. could write a good poem in the style of P...

I'm still feeling miserable and sick, so I'm going to indulge in another post about poetry. This one won't be a lamentation, tho...

  I'm ill as I'm typing these words, so perhaps that will add to the melancholy and even bitterness of this post. Please bear that i...