Because Thomas Merton Gave Lectures Like This On Love
Of the theological virtues Faith, Hope, and Love, St. Paul writes that the greatest of these is Love. Our Lord also said so when He was being questioned by the scholar of the law and gave us the Two...
View ArticleWhy I’m Not Doing Victory Laps About the News Out Of Newark
It’s pretty simple. Because everyone lost. That’s the really sad news. Parents lost, in that their trust in the Church to safeguard their children, whom they vouchsafed to the Her for catechical...
View ArticleSt. Francis, Poverty, and the Saving Madness of the Gospel…
Months and months ago, long before there was an inkling that Pope Benedict XVI would step aside, I came across this little book, titled simply I, Francis, in a used book store in my town. As I recall,...
View ArticleFor Dana Gioia’s Thoughts On The Vocation Of The Catholic Writer
A lot of ink has been spilt these last few days since Evangelii Gaudium was published. Much of what has been said about it isn’t worth the pixels that have been wasted so far. The same old tired...
View ArticleHaving Some Bubbly Later? Thank the Monks of the Abbey of St. Hilare
Joe Six-Pack knows who to thank. Now before you get yourself all up in a lather, breaking out sources from Bon Appetit Magazine to refute this assertion, etc., let me just skip you straight to the...
View ArticleBlogging And The Art Of Mustang Maintenance (Or, My “Saint Joseph’s Retreat”...
The first thing you need to know is that I just made up the idea of taking a blogging break and calling it a Saint Joseph’s Retreat. Why did I call it that? Because Jesus’s foster father wasn’t very...
View Article“Since The Divorce Rate Is So High, Let’s Opt For 10 Year Long (Term...
Seriously? I LOL’d. Nice try, Adriana Cohen, but you obviously have never been involved in a) contract negotiations, or b)received every businesses idea of a good time: the Request For Proposal. You...
View ArticleTo Break My Fast From Being Merciful
I came across some wise words of a Doctor of the Church I had never heard of the other day. The subject? The importance of being merciful. For the longest time, and long before I became a Catholic, I...
View ArticleMother Church Is Looking For A Few Good Men…
Support Vocation Boom to help in the Churches recruiting effort. Roll clip, Lucky folks who donate between now and 9/19 (and who have PC’s) will receive The Faith Database as a reward for contributing...
View ArticleThe New Mass Translation? The Marines In WWII Had That.
Well, it’s pretty close, from what I can tell. And it makes a handy little pocket guide for the changes coming upon us when the New Translation kicks in this first Sunday of Advent. I didn’t have to...
View ArticleBecause of Thomas Merton, OCSO (January 31, 1915 – December 10, 1968)
This is part VII of my conversion story, tagged as 2BFrank in the Tag Cloud. I run it every year on this day to commemorate the death of Thomas Merton, who was also known as Father Louis. Yes, I am...
View ArticleBecause Thomas Merton Gave Lectures Like This On Love
Of the theological virtues Faith, Hope, and Love, St. Paul writes that the greatest of these is Love. Our Lord also said so when He was being questioned by the scholar of the law and gave us the Two...
View ArticleRudy + Moonlight Graham = Reggie Ho, The Little Catholic Kicker Who Could
It’s a big football weekend coming up, what with the Conference Championships meeting up on the gridiron this Sunday. We’ll find out if it will be the Seahawks vs. the Patriots, or the Packers vs. the...
View ArticleFor All the Saints: The Carmelite Martyrs of Compiegne
Guest post by William “Mac” McCarthy Blogging makes surprising connections. Back in the day when I was a lapsed Episcopalian and he was the rare Catholic at our New England school, Mac lived down the...
View ArticleWisdom from Thomas Merton’s Letter to a Young Activist
Now that the presidential election is over, some of you may be feeling listless after the loss in the “biggest election of all time.” My advice? Don’t be. Depending on where you stand politically,...
View ArticleBecause the Vocation You Pray For May Be Your Own
A few days ago, I wrote a post where I said that as a father and husband, I can’t literally go “to the Desert.” I quipped “maybe in the future.” Sure you will, I thought to myself. And then I found...
View ArticleBecause My Boys Needed to Know About Hildegard of Bingen
I received a note the other day in my e-mail inbox informing me of a movie that would soon be released on DVD. I noted the title of the film and realized that it was still playing in one of the...
View ArticleTo Break My Fast From Being Merciful
I came across some wise words of a Doctor of the Church I had never heard of the other day. The subject? The importance of being merciful. For the longest time, and long before I became a Catholic, I...
View ArticleFor All the Saints: Francis of Assisi, Deacon
It’s the feast of St. Francis of Assisi today, in case you didn’t notice. True story: My grandfather was a Catholic and his name was Francis too, and he was named after the fellow you’ll be reading...
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