Irish Papist

Ah, liberal and conservative. What loaded words! And how difficult to apply to the messy business of human life! Nobody ever asks me if I...

While I'm linking to my favourite songs, here is a rather obscure one . But it's definitely one of my very favourite, tippermost top...

I don't know if my international reader are familiar with the British seventies glam-rock band, Slade. If they don't recognize the n...

Isn't it odd that, in all the Christian world and down through all the centuries, there was never (as far as I know) any attempt to rena...

I've been rather critical of T.S. Eliot on this blog, taking him as an example of the kind of poetic modernism that I detest. In fairnes...

In a post some weeks back , I reproduced the first five columns on the philosophy of G.K. Chesterton that I wrote for The Open Door magazin...

For some reason, other Catholic sites (or sites of any kind) rarely link to this one. So I was pleased, and surprised, to see a link in my s...