tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post435490825090230736..comments2024-03-28T14:19:53.973+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: Ultra-Catholics and moustachioed Jesuit 'generals'Fr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-47082977598351787122018-06-14T23:23:00.783+01:002018-06-14T23:23:00.783+01:00Said a cleric of old Abersoch
When offered a churc...Said a cleric of old Abersoch<br />When offered a church by a loch,<br />"I'd prefer Llanfairpwllgwyngyll-<br />gogerychwrndrobwll-<br />llantisiliogogogoch."<br /><br />Orthography not guaranteed, I'm afraid. Maybe Fr Forrest?Alanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16365402242052425654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-59024559034195394882018-06-13T14:04:10.866+01:002018-06-13T14:04:10.866+01:00Some of Eric Mascall's later books have very f...Some of Eric Mascall's later books have very fine calligraphic covers, drawn by the late Michael Harvey. For example, (those that I am aware of) <i>Theology and the Gospel of Christ</i>, and <i>Whatever happened to the Human Mind?</i><br /><br />Harvey's cover design for a work by H U v. Balthasar was adapted to a display typeface called simply Balthasar.<br /><br /><a href="http://william arthurshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16447813388196156894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-39720531533416867722018-06-12T18:24:02.865+01:002018-06-12T18:24:02.865+01:00On a whim, I searched the library catalogue in Que...On a whim, I searched the library catalogue in Queen's Belfast for E. L. Mascall's works; there were a few in the general collection and almost a surfeit in the special collections. It turns out that the sometime Reader in Scholastic Philosophy bought virtually everything that Mascall ever published and left it all to the University in his will. After Queen's he ended up as Bishop of Éamonnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11560394580179348894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-13673460748161850532018-06-12T14:28:47.800+01:002018-06-12T14:28:47.800+01:00With respect to “submitted” I notice that a new st...With respect to “submitted” I notice that a new study of Vatican I is out, as reviewed by the very interesting Adam DeVille: <br />https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2018/06/10/the-long-shadows-of-the-first-vatican-council/Woodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08910654300435533408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-12669628810853074732014-01-12T21:45:11.690+00:002014-01-12T21:45:11.690+00:00I like the bit about the "Penny Cathechism&qu...I like the bit about the "Penny Cathechism".<br /><br />Increasingly, I think that is the answer to all our problems.<br /><br /><br />ps, and I have a certain sympathy with him regarding the last line!Jacobihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04743062941733814176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-40897383517191210752014-01-12T21:07:00.926+00:002014-01-12T21:07:00.926+00:00One is reminded of the young curate of Salisbury
W...One is reminded of the young curate of Salisbury<br />Whose manners were quite halisbury-scalisbury:<br />He ran around Hampshire<br />Without any pampshire<br />Till his vicar compelled him to walisbury.Sue Simshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05976537787708670241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-59751899596489068792014-01-12T15:51:57.074+00:002014-01-12T15:51:57.074+00:00There was an old priest of Dun Laoghaire,
Who stoo...There was an old priest of Dun Laoghaire,<br />Who stood on his head for the Kaoghaire.<br />When people asked why,<br />He explained it all by<br />The latest liturgical thaoghaireFr John Hunwickehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-27336383312006470192014-01-12T14:39:39.211+00:002014-01-12T14:39:39.211+00:00I read somewhere that Mascall once penned a limeri...I read somewhere that Mascall once penned a limerick that began "An acolyte there was of Dun Leary..." Is there any truth to this? I'd be delighted if my home town had been so honoured...Éamonnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11560394580179348894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-61969993589559275082014-01-12T14:07:57.970+00:002014-01-12T14:07:57.970+00:00I once had a copy of Mascall's 'Pi in the ...I once had a copy of Mascall's 'Pi in the High', in which this appeared. Another went, I think:<br />The common<br />or domestic cat<br />Is sometimes thin<br />and sometimes fat<br />And though the fat ones are quite nice<br />The thin ones are the best for miceAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com