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One Day Holy 26 Aug 2013 | 10:12 pm
“In the end, life offers only one tragedy: not to have been a saint.” – Leon Bloy I have long been fascinated by the thought of the importance of the here and now and our being more engaged in it. Th...
Discernment and the Hard, Long, Right Road Beneath Your Feet 23 Aug 2013 | 06:55 pm
Christian discernment takes patience and prayer and is not something easily reducible to a few simple axioms or methods. However, through the use of our reason, we can at least approach discernment ha...
Lying and Other Obstacles to Truth 22 Aug 2013 | 07:18 pm
I very much appreciated Leah Libresco’s succinct treatment of the topic of lying that was featured on Strange Notions today as the third in a series of articles about the topic. Her title was “Interfe...
Saint Gilbert Keith Chesterton? 7 Aug 2013 | 07:06 pm
The big news from this year’s Chesterton Conference (which I lament not having been able to attend) is that the cause for sainthood may soon be opened for our good man G.K. Chesterton.org has the pre...
HuffPope 31 May 2013 | 06:36 pm
Huffington Post repeats and compounds their errors in reporting. The Pope said Atheists/Catholics/Everyone-ever “ARE redeemed” (not “will be redeemed” which people then read as “will be saved”). There...
A Rant About Arguing (oy!….) 7 May 2013 | 07:32 pm
There are a lot of ways that we are called to endure injustice. Some of them we are more comfortable with than others. One of them is how we conduct ourselves in discussion/debate with those we disagr...
Thoughts on Technology 7 May 2013 | 05:02 pm
I’ll be chatting with Jon Leonetti on the morning show on Iowa Catholic Radio today about technology – specifically: how to keep from being mastered by technology. It will be a very quick little chat ...
State of Family and Marriage Research 2 May 2013 | 05:11 pm
Terri Carrol, a sociology professor at Bowling Green and the co-director of the National Center for Family and Marriage Research (NCFMR), has a lot of interesting information to share in the article “...
Don Smith – Direct Evangelization at Gateway Moments 8 Feb 2013 | 08:51 pm
A big part of the New Evangelization is the restatement of the obvious. Catholic convert Don Smith gives fantastic advice for identifying and seizing important evangelistic moments.
Screwtape: Master of Misdirection 21 Jan 2013 | 05:48 pm
This passage comes from chapter VI of C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters, the correspondence between a senior demon, Uncle Screwtape, and his pupil, Wormwood. This is a favorite passage of mine because...
