It figures...

I give a less than stellar review of a book by my absolute favorite author and historian-only because I promised one (otherwise I would have kept silent) and don't you know it, out of 500 or so odd posts I written at BethuneCatholic, it is that very post which the NC(Register) features in their Daily Blog Watch. I wish I could take it back-not because it is not true, but because ...

Let's put it this way: Warren Carroll's books are often akin to spiritual reading for me. I get more inspiration out of his accounts of the sacrifices and faithfulness of our Catholic forebears than I do out of reading let's say The Imitation of Chirst, or The Cloud of Unknowing, etc.