Michael O. Garvey

An indolent and docile member of the Catholic Church, occasionally commenting on matters of belief, taste and culture.

[Michael O. Garvey @MichaelOGarvey]

For those of you who cannot attend my funeral Mass, 3:30 pm tomorrow, Friday February 18, please feel free to watch it via the link pasted here. Coraggio, good people. https://t.co/PFuXFbj7Ii

[Michael O. Garvey @MichaelOGarvey]

Jim Forest died. God love Him. Thank You for him, too.

[Michael O. Garvey @MichaelOGarvey]

@ebruenig Or that you’re in New Orleans.

[Michael O. Garvey @MichaelOGarvey]

Comcast signal vanishes. A telephone number is recommended for help. Number is busy always.

[Michael O. Garvey @MichaelOGarvey]

@ebruenig No, isn’t it that we believe that our Boss stomped Death’s ass and invited us into something fiercer and finer than this thin thing we call “life?”

[Michael O. Garvey @MichaelOGarvey]

Watched “Snakes on a Plane” in 2006 and thought it the most irredeemably stupid movie I’d ever seen. Now I’m transfixed.

[Michael O. Garvey @MichaelOGarvey]

@timothypomalley Let’s not get ahead of our skis. I want to linger on the discovery of an alien asking for baptism. And shouldn’t the first question be why the alien wants to be baptized? Don’t they ritually ask Cistercian postulants “quid petis?”

[Michael O. Garvey @MichaelOGarvey]

Reminds me of (whoever said it) that “papal diplomacy” began two millennia ago when the first Pope denied three times that he didn’t know who Jesus was.

[Michael O. Garvey @MichaelOGarvey]

Gary Paulsen, Author of Young-Adult Adventures, Dies at 82 https://t.co/NpHArSFADj

God rest him, if he’ll rest.

[Michael O. Garvey @MichaelOGarvey]

Want to tie a permanent knot? Take a rosary (the average kind with weak thin chain linking tiny beads) and put it in your pocket for fifteen minutes. I firmly believe that the people who manufacture these things hate the Rosary and don’t want us to use it.

[Michael O. Garvey @MichaelOGarvey]

I’m not sure what “excise” means here, but surely he can’t believe that to express a concern about Afghans is even roughly equivalent to ignoring Louisianans. Can he?

[Raymond Arroyo @RaymondArroyo]

All day I’ve heard people excised about evacuating the “at risk” Afghans. Can we focus for a moment on the thousands of “at risk” Americans displaced and homeless throughout Louisiana (in Houma, Laplace, New Orleans) after #HuricaneIda?

[Michael O. Garvey @MichaelOGarvey]

Forgive me. I’m luxuriating In my grandchildren, the most recent of whom is an anchor baby!

[Michael O. Garvey @MichaelOGarvey]

I learned a bit more than I liked about poor Jason Berry’s pain in this piece, but I think it is crucially important document for all who love and fear for our Church to read. And that we should all pray for him, as he, too, is a victim of the ecclesial sins he bravely exposed.

[NCR @NCRonline]

"I would go on these talk shows … and say my piece. Nobody ever asked me: What does this do to you as a Catholic? I was in a freefall, spiritually, wondering what to believe." Watch this documentary on @JasonBerryNews' reporting on sexual abuse scandal: https://t.co/MmM9MvExTV

[Michael O. Garvey @MichaelOGarvey]

Passenger taped to seat after attacking flight attendants on flight to M... https://t.co/tCVyC8pU3m via @YouTube This guy deserves a medal.

[Michael O. Garvey @MichaelOGarvey]

@__czesia To Kill a Mockingbird. Do I have a cool goddaughter or what?

[Michael O. Garvey @MichaelOGarvey]

Bill Monroe & The Blue Grass Boys - Uncle Pen (1965). https://t.co/wJmgpvfrEC via @YouTube

If this turns out to be, like, oppressive, I just can’t.

[Michael O. Garvey @MichaelOGarvey]

I try so hard to resist such agreeable dogma.

[Edward Sorin, C.S.C. @FatherSorin]

Once again, England is punished for failing to recognize the supremacy of Rome. Regnans in Excelsis.

[Edward Sorin, C.S.C. @FatherSorin]

Once again, England is punished for failing to recognize the supremacy of Rome. Regnans in Excelsis.