"On the whole, I do not find Christians, outside the catacombs, sufficiently sensible of the conditions. . . . It is madness to wear ladies' straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life preservers and signal flares; they should lash us to our pews." -- Annie Dillard
Wednesday, May 4, 2016
Steenson Eased Out Of Houston?
On the heels of recent speculation that Msgr Steenson has lost his endowed visiting professorship at St Thomas University Houston, a visitor now reports that his visit to give the Archbishop Ireland Memorial Lecture at the St Paul Seminary was also an opportunity for Msgr Steenson to firm up arrangements for his forthcoming appointment as Priest Scholar in Residence there for the 2016-17 academic year.