The Faith
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Possibly most people who read this blog also read these other two, but just in case: Craig Burrell describes his initial investigation of Heidegger. As part of Janet Cupo's 52 Saints series, Grumpy writes about St. Bonaventure. I have to face the fact that though I'm pretty interested in theology and philosophy, I'm never going to become…
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…I don't want to submit myself with great confidence to God's holy will, which is Love and Mercy itself. I want him to fix the problem I'm asking him to fix.
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Many years ago I read a statement by Padre Pio that said something along the lines of "It would be easier for the world to exist without the sun and the moon than without the Holy Eucharist." I thought that was hyperbole in the service of a point. But in the past year or two…
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I saw a movie by that name last night. It's a series of interviews with a number of Catholic converts describing the process by which they arrived at the faith. You'll probably recognize some of the names–Mark Shea, for instance. (I was pleased to see that his segment was quite engaging, as I had given up reading…
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It's been said that Guardini is a big influence on Pope Francis, and that was certainly apparent to me when I read Laudato Si soon after End of the Modern World. If the latter identifies any one greatest practical danger facing man in this new world, it's that his power has grown vastly greater than his wisdom.…
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Janet is kicking off the 52 Saints series at her blog. See this post and sign up!
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My friend Robert W sent me a link to this piece by Rod Dreher which in turn refers to this piece by Matt Walsh which is pretty well summarized in its title: "Maybe Christianity In America Is Dying Because It’s Boring Everyone To Death": And this is the problem with Christianity in this country. Not just…
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Janet Cupo has been doing an interesting series based on a (the?) Holy Spirit Novena, commenting on each prayer and illustrating it with works of art. This link will take you to a page containing all of them, in reverse order.
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If our communication with the divine is stopped we begin to have strange dreams…. –Fr. Alfred Delp, S.J. There's more to the sentence but I like it that way. …and set up false gods–success, people, new orders, and so on.
Light On Dark Water 