Fr. George Rutler emailed me on his latest book Coincidentally: Unserious Reflections on Trivial Connections
From the DaVinci Code and Roswell to E Pluribus Unum and the pyramid on the back of every dollar bill, we all are fascinated by secrets, codes, and coincidences. George Rutler – EWTN speaker, Crisis magazine columnist, and reigning Catholic wit – offers his reflections on the coincidental links that connect the most far-flung parts of our worlds. Topics cover the gamut of human life, from Louis Farrakhan and Edgar Allen Poe to Benjamin Franklin and the propensity of Scottish physicians to dominate the Nobel Prizes for Medicine. Each 4-page reflection is accompanied by line art to give this volume the perfect feel of antiquarian delight – perfect for the language lover and curmudgeon in all of us.
I will definitely be ordering and reviewing this book. I do love Fr. Rutler’s writing and his wit. One of my favorite biographies of a saint was his book The Cure D’Ars Today: St John Vianney
Reading Fr. Rutler’s column’s in Crisis I am always amazed by the number of people he has know and have often thought that you could whittle down the six degrees of separation with Kevin Bacon to 2 or three degrees of separation with Fr. Rutler.
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The funniest part about this post is that a short while ago my sister visited me with a tape showing a strange set of coincidences concerning her in a way that only I would understand. Then we were joking about the 6 degrees of separation, Kevin
Bacon, etc. My last observation to her before she drove off was that in RI, because we’re small, there are only 2 or 3 degrees of separation.
And here, through the first blog post i’ve read today, is a coincidence that only my sister can really understand! Yeah, I sent her the laugh already. Thanks for some timely family comedy, Jeff.
Well, there are only two degrees of separation between Father Rutler and me, but it looks like you have me beat! Congratulations.
Jeff,
Wait a second, I thought you were the “reigning Catholic wit”?
Is this a collection of some of his Crisis columns or are these reflections all-new?