If you’re ever in Albuquerque, New Mexico, put this restaurant on top of your “must visit” list. [Read more...]
Pope Francis With The Quote of the Week
May 27, 2014 By
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“Dear brothers, dear friends, from this holy place I make a heartfelt plea to all people and to all communities who look to Abraham: may we respect and love one another as brothers and sisters! May we learn to understand the sufferings of others! May no one abuse the name of God through violence! May we work together for justice and peace! Salaam!”
- Pope Francis, Visit to the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, May 26, 2014
For Your Flannery O’Connor Quote Of The Year
February 14, 2014 By Leave a Comment
To find out about faith, you have to go to the people who have it and you have to go to the most intelligent ones if you are going to stand up intellectually to agnostics and the general run of pagans that you are going to find in the majority of people around you.
- Flannery O’Connor, writing to college freshman, Alfred Corn
Read the entire letter at A Catholic Thinker.
Because You Never Know When Andrea Boccelli Will Show Up And Sing At Mass
December 26, 2013 By 4 Comments
“For Christmas, I want absolutely to have a mass, and for this occasion, if they ask me to sing, I sing, I’m happy about it.”
You know, to kick off the Octave of Christmas. That’s the case if you went to Mass at St. Patrick Catholic Church in Miami, yesterday.
Roll clip,
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Pretty neat, eh? Read all about it.
For Dana Gioia’s Thoughts On The Vocation Of The Catholic Writer
December 7, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Dana Gioia, formerly chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. now a professor at that other university in Los Angeles (USC)
Photograph from Wikipedia Commons
A lot of ink has been spilt these last few days since Evangelii Gaudium was published. Much of what has been said about it isn’t worth the pixels that have been wasted so far. The same old tired arguments from the usual suspects seeking to undermine any moral authority that Pope Francis is seeking to wield by his even bothering to publish it. [Read more...]
Get Your Pope Francis Awesome Sauce Right Here…
November 26, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Straight from the source. No filters. No handlers.
Evangelii Gaudium, Apostolic Exhortation of Pope Francis, 2013
Read it, and leap!
The Great Battle In Heaven, Like You’ve Never Seen It
November 9, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Great Battle in Heaven, by Daniel Mitsui.
And there was made a great battle in heaven, Michael and his Angels fought with the dragon, and the dragon fought and his Angels: and they prevailed not, neither was their place found any more in heaven. And that great dragon was cast forth, the old serpent, which is called the Devil and Satan, which seduceth the whole world: and he was cast into the earth, and his Angels were thrown down with him. —Revelation 12:7-9 [Read more...]
What the Basílica de la Sagrada Família Will Look Like When Finished…
September 30, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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And you thought it was incredible already? You’re right, but there is more. Much more. [Read more...]
I Could Listen to Seamus Heaney Reading “Beowulf” For Hours (Requiescat In Pace) UPDATES
August 30, 2013 By 3 Comments
I shared what follows last summer. I’m sharing it with you again because this morning I learned that Seamus Heany has crossed over from death into eternity. Here’s a snippet from the obituary posted by the BBC. [Read more...]
“There is a wide difference between Christians and the men of this world.”
August 25, 2013 By 2 Comments
You mean like this?
That’s the title of the fourth homily of Macarius. I thought of his homilies after meditating a bit on today’s Gospel reading. You know, the part that goes “strive to enter through the narrow gate…” [Read more...]
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