Your kids have said it. Your teenagers have almost definitely said it. Perhaps your spouse has even said it. Maybe you’ve even said it, once in a while, particularly if the liturgy seems plodding, or the priest seems distracted, or the music is…as bad as it can sometimes be: “Ugh, Read more…
It’s one of my favorite litanies. If you’d like, let’s pray it together with an old podcast of mine: Lord, have mercy Christ, have mercy Lord, have mercy Christ, hear us Christ, graciously hear us. God the Father of Heaven, have mercy on us God the Son, Redeemer of the Read more…
Image: Alex Williams-cc My friend Russell Shaw has been sharing his thoughts on Evelyn Waugh’s The Loved One, and I so like what he has to say I’m passing it along to you, too, because it seems to me that right now — as the social media to which most Read more…
The Supreme Court has handed down a 7-2 decision on the question of bakers and cakes and gay weddings, and Colorado’s clear hostility toward religion as protected by the 1st Amendment seems to have impacted that ruling: The justices, in a 7-2 decision, faulted the Colorado Civil Rights Commission’s handling Read more…
Image: Asolrac1-cc “The Vatican has released an instruction with new norms for contemplative orders of nuns. Nuns must use Facebook, Twitter and other social media with “sobriety and discretion” according to a new document released by the Vatican.” So reports the UK Tablet Three of the four female Doctors of Read more…
My latest piece over at Word on Fire concerns this weeks Met Gala, which opened the Metropolitan Museum’s latest exhibit, “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination” an exhibit I hope to visit next week and wrote more about. The gala, though, certainly got a lot of attention. It always Read more…
A young writer asks: I’m in need of a pep talk. I’ve fallen into the trap of comparing myself to other people and I need to shift my focus. How do you deal when you feel inadequate? You’re very smart to realize that you need to shift your focus. Comparing Read more…
So, there I was, watching as much as I could stand of the congressional questioning of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and mostly feeling completely unimpressed by these leaders of legislation and industry — am I jaded? Am I a smartass? I don’t know. I just know that none of them Read more…
Overheard at the Deli: Millennial #1: “I don’t get ragging on Breakfast Club like it’s all harassment and stuff. What does she want, movies w/no stories b/c they eliminate human nature?” Millennial #2: “Yes. Eliminating human nature is the whole point.” Millennial #1: (Emphatic agreement) “RIGHT?” Millennial #2: “So it’s all Read more…
He is Risen! Truly He is Risen! Indulge me, please, a little fiction — a brief imagining of what it might have been like for the guards who missed that moment when Christ defeated Death! – ES He was not afraid. Of course he was not. Only, he could not Read more…