Things real and wonderful
Recently I came across quote from C. S. Lewis that said:
"In a sense a child does not long for fairy land as a boy...
Being Fully Human: Humility
The greatest thing you can learn is just to love and be loved in return. - Moulin Rouge
It’s Thursday night—a holiday. You and your...
Life is a battlefield
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. - Martin Luther King Jr.
In his recent homily, Pope Francis...
What we are called to do
The Catholic blogosphere hit Bottum recently, and hit it very hard indeed—the Bottum in question being Jody, a Catholic journalist and former editor of...
A Manly King, and a Kingly Man
An article this morning in CWR quotes a recent speech by none other than Cardinal Sarah, recounting to young scouting pilgrims, on pilgrimage to...
Love, and do what you will
I've been reading the Myers-Briggs personality profiles, assessing my personality, hoping that somewhere in the pages and pages of internet sources I will find the...
Who tells you what to do?
My friend blogged the other day about how her boys, when allowed to have whatever they want for breakfast on their birthday, choose cereal....
A Little Lenten Reflection
As the universal Church begins the anticipatory and penitent season of Lent, it is important to take a moment to understand the season’s meaning...
How Do We Know Christ Really Lived?
Every now and then we hear in various and sundry places one of the greatest blasphemies of them all: that Jesus never really lived...
Elizabeth Anscombe on Hating God
Elizabeth Anscombe (1919-2001) was a British analytic philosopher who early in life met and was deeply influenced by the great Austrian logician and linguist...
