Agnes Repplier at IWP Books: waisberg.micro.blog/2023/10/0…

evil in the sight of the Lᴏʀᴅ 1 Samuel 15:19; 2 Samuel 12:9; 1 Kings 11:6, 14:22, 15:26, 34, 16:19, 25, 21:20, 22:52; 2 Kings 3:2, 8:18, 8:27, 13:2, 11, 14:24, 15:9, 18, 24, 28, 17:2, 17, 21:2, 15, 16, 20, 23:32, 37, 24:9, 19.

W. H. Auden died fifty years ago today. —@ayjay

Catholics who are dismayed at the state of the Church should read the Old Testament.

HELP WANTED: Sales & Marketing Manager at Arion Press via @waisberg

This afternoon a state trooper rang our doorbell for a reason I did not know. In his hand was my wallet that I had unknowingly dropped in the Empire State Plaza concourse while buying fruits and vegetables at the weekly farmers' market. God bless all involved in the return of the wallet.

What would you do if you saw God? Do that, at least once or twice a day.

[On character] the clodhopper has rights of opinion. —John Jay Chapman

Any idea must be quite monumental at the beginning of its career, in order that posterity shall afford it more than an asterisk. —John Jay Chapman

Horace Howard Furnace by John Jay Chapman and by Agnes Repplier via @waisberg

Erasmus of Rotterdam, the greatest and most brilliant star of his century, is today, we cannot deny the fact, hardly more than a name. —Stefan Zweig

Memories and Condolences for Christopher Ringwald

Every year I come back to read these comments, and sometimes I feel overwhelmed by the way my dad was admired, loved and respected. I feel the deepest pain knowing I never got to know him more– that my siblings and I never got to feel the joy of being an adult with him. Sometimes I have to remind myself that he is half of me, even if the distance between who I am now and who I was when he was still with us grows larger each year. But I feel lucky that he touched so many people, and continues to remain in countless memories. Learning more about him through family and friends is both an antidote to my grief and a catalyst of it. I miss him so deeply that sometimes my whole body aches. —Jeanne

(And anyhow, as the Americans would say, what is a cause?) —Aldous Huxley via @waisberg

(And anyhow, as the Americans would say, what is a cause?)

I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down. 2 Kings 21:13

The time may come when many will think that the gates of hell have prevailed against Christ’s church.

Hezekiah removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan. 2 Kings 18:4

The Court … returns … authority to the people and their elected representatives. —Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization

Since Congress and the President are presumed to be elected by the people, Dobbs doesn’t prevent the Federal government, as well as the States, from regulating abortion.