Bernini’s Ecstasy of St. Teresa, in Santa Maria della Vittoria Church, Rome You’re going to like this one. And it has a St. Philip Neri connection, again, too! Also, check out a more modern saint with whom you may be unfamiliar, Alberto Hurtado.
God is not sophisticated enough
May 28, 2010 By
There is a quote from Archbishop Oscar Romero that both traditional and progressive Catholics love to latch onto, because each feels Romero was speaking for them: A church that doesn’t provoke any crisis, a gospel that doesn’t unsettle, a Word of God that doesn’t get under anyone’s skin, what kind of gospel is that? Preachers [...]
Life of Faith, Power of Prayer
May 14, 2010 By
The life of faith, in truth, is -like Jumpin’ Jack Flash, a g-g-gas; it is a mind-blower. We humans tend to try to put everything, including God, and love and life, into manageable compartments, and we hide in them. We hide inside our frameworks, our structures, our plans, our narratives, our willful and our unintentional [...]
John Allen; definitive on Benedict, Scandals
April 16, 2010 By
The great John Allen, perhaps the best English-language reporter on the Vatican beat, does yeoman’s work in three different articles, to which I am linking today. Allen takes knowledgeable, sometimes devastating but always fair looks at Pope Benedict XVI and the crisis that has engulfed him over the past few weeks and has come to [...]
The Myth of Held-back Catholic Women
April 9, 2010 By
New Monastery Going Up Through the Efforts of Five Women Politics is opportunistic; in the wake of the last three weeks unending coverage of the decades-old scandals in the Catholic church, Lisa Miller of Newsweek has decided that this is the time to push for the feminist interests. The chasm between the church’s stated principles [...]
Pelosi Doesn't Know from St. Joseph
March 19, 2010 By
I’m sorry. Almost nothing that has come from this woman’s mouth has infuriated me like this. This woman is a profound grotesque who gets virtually everything wrong here, from what feastday it is, to the kinds of Catholic religious sisters supporting her monster’s bastard of a bill. Note, because it is important in the face [...]
The Ball & the Cross & the Bread
February 14, 2010 By
[In Chesterton's novel The Ball and the Cross, old Turnbull, the atheist] starts falling in love with a young Catholic woman named Madeleine. . . she finally talks to him not only about his duel, but about the sacraments: He advanced upon Madeleine with flaming eyes, and almost took her by the two shoulders. “I [...]
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