Another glorious evening although the heat is making itself...

Obnoxious; I'm assured that a tornado won't take the roof off this house but, granting the truth of that, it is also true that the lack of insulation and the shingling (if that's a word) together act like a glass lens to concentrate the setting Sun's heat. When it's seriously hot, the upper 90s and 100s, it doesn't cool down here until 2200 or later.

The Catholic Herald published a brief essay by the great Father John Hunwicke today; so far as I can tell a first for them. His argument is that the best satirists are former Anglicans who've accepted the Roman obedience. St John Newman, Mons Ronald Knox, Evelyn Waugh....

... What have those formed in Anglicanism to contribute to a Catholic appropriation of satire? Simply, that we placed great emphasis on things like episcopacy, and yet were given in return so much evidence how very earthen were the vessels in which these high wonders were lodged. It was precisely this interplay in via between faith and realism that Dom Gregory Dix expressed when he reminded his Anglican hearers that the heraldic symbol of a bishop was a crook, and, of an archbishop, a double cross....

Perhaps he was persuaded to write outside the learned fortifications of his blog since this provided him the opportunity to praise the late Dr Geoffrey Kirk, requiescat in pace, also a priest of the Ordinariate (who himself blogged at Ignatius His Conclave). I read Fr Hunwicke every day that he posts (I noticed Juvenal in his Catholic Herald piece; I wonder what I missed?) but unfortunately never attained the felicity enjoyed by the habitual visitors to Dr Kirk's site.



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