From The Parish™, where I will soon return. Yesterday there was a procession with a relic of the Cross through the streets of the neighborhood, down the Via dei Pettinari, onto the Via Giulia, back up to the Piazza Farnese, and back to church.
This is the balm which our sore wounded society needs.
As an old bishop outside the meeting of the Italian Bishops once erupted on hearing we had had a procession in the Vatican Gardens the day before: ““Meno chiacchiere … più processioni! … Less chattering … more processions!”
Do I hear an “AMEN!”?
There is so much chatter today, and must of it is as toxic as the Hell that spawned it.
I hope you will make time in your lives to make visits to the Blessed Sacrament during the week.
Say the Rosary.
GO TO CONFESSION!
Am I wrong?
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Meanwhile, renegade octogenarian nuns leave the nursing home where they were unhappy and returned to their convent! HERE
Meanwhile, there is a story in the Irish Times – not where I would have expected – that young men (in Ireland) are turning to the Church. HERE
Meanwhile…. Anish defeated the unlikable (but admittedly strong) Niemann. The chess spoke for itself. HERE
The final handshake! ?
?? Anish Giri is the winner of the FIDE Grand Swiss 2025! Congratulations!#FIDEGrandSwiss pic.twitter.com/WpWHPROdGg— International Chess Federation (@FIDE_chess) September 15, 2025
“St Augustine had no time whatsoever for homosexual behaviour, common though it was in the world in which he lived. He condemns the sin of Sodom time and again as an abomination, so he would obviously be astonished and disgusted to see an Augustinian apparently condoning, if not… pic.twitter.com/ybj72gWElo
— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) September 15, 2025
White to move and win. Tricky.
NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.
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Oh I shouldn’t worry, the Irish Times went from “young men returned to Church” to “the likes of Andrew Tate” within the same sentence. Normal service resumed by the Irish Times by the end of the article, then.
For the chess position, is this is the position the made the rounds from the game between Fabiano and Alireza a while back? The move is Rxa7. If black captures (RxRa7), then white plays c7. There is basically nothing white can do at that point to prevent c8=Q. If black does not capture, then RxRa8 wins that rook and the pins (and wins) the knight.
Interestingly, in the second photo the tufts hanging from the decoration of the Cross are serendipitously on top of the two veiled ladies’ heads, as if they were hats!
And, of course, marvelous procession indeed. Less chattering. Menos lío. Più processioni!
You are not wrong. Too much noise.