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

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.

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."