Catholic Stuff
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From his weekly audience today: To hear God’s word requires the cultivation of outward and inward silence, so that His voice can resound within our hearts and shape our lives… Silence has the capacity to open a space in our inner being, a space in which God can dwell… In our prayers we often find…
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Faith is not a thing of the mind; it is not an intellectual certainty or a felt conviction in the heart. It is a sustained decision to take God with utter seriousness as the God of my life…. Often it may seem as if we only act "as if," so unaffected are our hearts, perhaps…
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I started to link to this in a comment on the previous Chesterton post, but it merits a post of its own: an excellent treatment of the subject by Stratford Caldecott. He quotes Chesterton in a 1932 interview: …the Hitlerite atrocities…[are] quite obviously the expedient of a man who, not knowing quite what to do to…
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Hitchens vs. Chesterton The last essay by the late Christopher Hitchens appears in the March issue of The Atlantic, and I finally got around to reading it this morning. Craig Burrell has written about it here, and I'm pretty much of the same mind, though he is a little more generous to the piece than I…
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That was the situation in my parish church for this evening's Ash Wednesday Mass. There had been one at 8:30, presumably less well attended. This was very close to Christmas and Easter levels. I was a few minutes late, and when I was about a block from the church I realized I was in a…
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Patrick Deneen, whose name you know if you read Front Porch Republic, is leaving Georgetown for Notre Dame. His reasons will interest anyone interested in Catholic higher education.
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You may have noticed the Google Doodle today, a rocky-looking thing which turns out to be a reference to Blessed Nicholas Steno, a Danish priest (actually named Steensen) who did some pioneering work in geology. I was not aware of him before today, so I appreciate Google having brought him to my attention. And I'm…
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Nobody has to do anything they don’t want to anymore. —my wife, at the breakfast table this morning
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I haven't had time to write anything this week, being very busy with work and other things. So I was looking through my bookmarks for things I'd kept with the idea of maybe posting them here, or maybe not. This is one I came across back in November. You may be familiar with Jennifer Fulwiler's…
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For the past several days I've been seeing a story on Google News, which I look at several times a day, with a headline about "The Nun Who Kissed Elvis." I didn't pay any attention, figuring that it was just some silly episode, probably from the '60s, in which a foolish nun developed a crush…
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