Conversations with Walker Percy

“Settle for Nothing Less.” (Walker Percy)
Sunday, January 16, 2011 A.D. | Author Christopher Blosser
Q: What kind of Catholic are you?
A: Bad.
Q: No, I mean are you liberal or conservative?
A: I no longer know what those words mean.
Q: Are you a dogmatic Catholic or an open-minded Catholic?
A: I don’t know what that means, either. Do you mean I believe the dogma that the Catholic Church proposes for belief?
Q: Yes.
A: Yes.
Q: How is such a belief possible in this day and age?
A: What else is there?
Q: What do you mean, what else is there? There is humanism, atheism, agnosticism, Marxism, behavioralism, materialism, Buddhism, Muhammadanism, Sufism, astrology, occultism, theosophy.
A: That’s what I mean.
Q: To say nothing of Judaism or Protestantism.
A: Well, I would include them along with the Catholic Church in the whole peculiar Jewish-Christian thing.
Q: I don’t understand. Would you exclude, for example, scientific humanism as a rational and honorable alternative?
A: Yes.
Q: Why?
A: It’s not good enough.
Q: Why not?
A: This life is too much trouble, far too strange, to arrive at the end of it and then to be asked what you make of it and have to answer, “Scientific humanism.” That won’t do. A poor show. Life is a mystery, love is a delight. Therefore I take it as axiomatic that one should settle for nothing less than the infinite mystery and the infinite delight, i.e., God. In fact, I demand it. I refuse to settle for anything less.

Stolen from The American Catholic!

Pray for all of the Victims of the Arizona shooting...

...and their families. Some nut case did this horrendous crime.

In America, where I come from, we don't kill our leaders!

Happy Feast of the Epiphany

20+CMB+11

(Don't want to say anything about how the bishops in the US moved the feast...)

Belated Merry Christmas

A blessed though belated Christmas to everyone.

The twenty-fifth day of December,
in the five-thousand, one-hundred and ninety-ninth year of the creation of the world, from the time when God in the beginning created the heaven and the earth;
the two-thousand nine-hundred and fifty-seventh year after the flood;
the two-thousand and fifteenth year from the birth of Abraham;
the one- thousand five-hundred and tenth year from Moses and the going forth of the people of Israel from Egypt;
the one-thousand and thirty-second year from David being anointed King;
in the sixty-fifth week according to the prophecy of Daniel;
in the one-hundred and ninety-fourth Olympiad;
the seven-hundred and fifty-second year from the founding of Rome;
the forty-second year of the reign of Octavian Augustus;
in the sixth age of the world,
when the whole world was at peace,
Jesus Christ,
the eternal God and Son of the eternal Father,
desiring to sanctify the world by his most merciful coming,
was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
and nine months having passed since his conception,
was born in Bethlehem of Judah of the Virgin Mary,
AND WAS MADE MAN.
I hope all your wishes came or will come true. Got an unexpected surprise:

Kinda cool!

A "rich" person...

is someone who you THINK has or makes more money than you do! Which is way one can get away with cursing the rich even though one might have a lot more money than the rich they are cursing.

"But She's STILL our Mother..."

On leaving the Catholic Chruch:




(Hat tip to The American Catholic!)

This guy gets it!!

(Hat tip to The Catholic Caveman!)
Wish we did!!

Happy Hanukkah!

To one and all!!

Happy Veterans' Day

God bless all the veterans; my Dad, uncles, (four) sons, and friends! We enjoy all we have due to your sacrifices!

No pressure!

No Pressure

Hat tip to The American Catholic!

IMHO this is why the Brits deserve some of the K-rap they get AND why the American Revolution WAS the RIGHT thing to do!! (And I can understand how they could elect "The Master" as PM in Dr. Who!)

(BTW, how that East Anglia thing going for you!!)