Ordained a week ago as a Catholic priest, the Pontificator has now posted his reflections. Though I'm sure there's more to come in due course, this is meaty enough. Unsurprisingly, he sums up his feelings with a quote from Newman: "...even what a person has before he is a Catholic, being grafted on a new stock, becomes new, and he is like a Jew become Christian."
Fortnightly Book, August 23
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When J.-K. Huysmans set out to write the result of Durtal's conversion to
Catholicism and stay in the Trappist monastery at La Trappe in *En Route*,
the...
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