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A glorious Easter morning to you! The tomb is empty! Our Lord and Savior is...

I'll be the first to admit that I'm late to the party of those who...

That strange phone number that called my cell phone that I didn't see until lunch...

It seems like the first thing they do is remove their Catholic identity from their...

  Today is the Feast of Sts. Perpetua and Felicitas. I drummed up a few...

Just an F.Y.I. Good news, though. The Church is on the right side of history....

I caught Stephen Colbert interviewing Pulitzer prize winning author Garry Wills when the following clip...

Way up on the northern side of the borough of Manhattan, in the town of...

Back in the Fall, I shared thoughts of the Dalai Lama on the efficacy of...

Courage is an enduring virtue, one that Christians of all strips have to tap into in...

It being the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, and Inaguration Day too, I'm taking the...

I don't know if you listen to NPR but they've been doing a little series...

—Solemnity, Mary, Mother of God For most of us, today is a Holy Day of...

Folks are leaving town for the holidays, and I am now on holiday as well....

The title of this post says it all. Why bother becoming a Christian unless you...

  Remember my affection for the Harvard Classics, the Five Foot Shelf of Books? Admittedly,...

Today is the first Ember Day of autumn, the week after the Feast of the...

This is part VII of my conversion story, tagged as 2BFrank in the Tag Cloud....

—Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary I'm always the last one to...

It's just another reason to throw a few bucks towards helping bringing the story of...

I've said it before, and I'll say it again, many of the stories we find...

So today is the official launch of the e-book I mentioned that I was contributing...

It's the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi. You might have noticed this, as...

On Thursdays I serve as lector at the parish near my office. I've been the...

I'm included in the part of the song that goes "and the rest..." for the...

Johann Sebastian Bach loved coffee, before coffee houses were cool. He and his musician friends...

Once I met up with Thomas Merton, it didn't take long for him to introduce...

As the presidential election starts looming large on the horizon, it's time to dust off...

I've been thinking about the attacks to our embassies all across the Islamic world. Like...

A poem by Kenhelm Digby Best, priest of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri, London,...