If this strategy of resourcement is a call for the American Church to become more deeply Catholic than it has perhaps even been, it should be clear that it is a call to become a very different kind of Catholic than prevailed in the pre-Vatican II Church.

We were walking at a smart pace, and a sip from my pocket-flask soon set my old friend's tongue going.

The juxtaposition of the bright yellows on the dark background made the painting appear three dimensional.

Emblematically, we have been shown martyrdom in an obscene mode, a religious 'dying' which Shakespeare hints, figuratively, is a kind of masturbatory self-rape."