Archive - Blithe Spirit Weekly

St. Ignatius High teaching in the '50s, colorful, historical, in which the writer calls on ancestors. Seeing no evil in some matters . . .

. . . which were to come to bite the Society and the whole church

Oct 5 •

Being a Jesuit in the '50s -- teaching at St. Ignatius on the West Side of Chicago . . .

. . . Fresh out of seven formation years as novice and student

Oct 4 •

Irony of dockworkers strike

A union boss should not be running the economy

Published on Don Surber • Oct 3

Israel Must Destroy Iran's Nuclear Program with or without US

They've done it before

Published on AMERICAN REFUGEES: THE ROGER SIMON/SHERYL LONGIN SUBSTACK • Oct 3

J.D. Vance makes a hash out of Gomer Pyle, err Tim Walz

Wow, Republican vice presidential candidate J.D.

Published on The Barbershop: Dennis Byrne, Proprietor • Oct 2

September 2024

Oak Park the beautiful in 2005 -- squirrels and sleepers, panhandlers, encounter in Osco lot . . .

as in Short History of Oak Park (IL) . . .

Sep 24 •

Priest a no-show, worshiper makes best of it, meditating away

Relishing the peace and quiet

Sep 21 •

Fantasy politics: Aborting abortion in 2025 as predicted in the 2005 best-seller "Short History of Oak Park . . . "

. . . or best-in-cellar? Whatever . . . (anybody can play)

Sep 16 •

Conversation, dated 2007, here relayed to preserve it from disappearance into void where old conversations go . . .

. . . simple reporting of what's seen and heard, commentary, a movie and a book recommended . . .

Sep 13 •

When the prayer to Michael the Archangel got a priest in trouble.

Called confusing by his pastor after talking to the cardinal.

Sep 12 •

Hope sprang yesterday in late October 15 years ago -- an oldie but goodie from the files of Blithe Spirit the blog . . .

Resurrected for the edification of Blithe Spirit Weekly readers . . .

Sep 9 •

Guilty as charged... Breathes there an Oak Parker with soul so dead, who never to himself has said, “I love diversity”?

A short history of Oak Park, continued . . .

Sep 6 •

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