Views of a new Catholic in an old world on the joy and inexhaustible meaning found in the Faith
I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that witnessing to atheists, at least in the manner that seems to be popular in the Catholic blog-o-sphere nowadays, is in a sad state of affairs.
Posts thumbing our noses at atheists, posts basically saying that atheists are idiots, and posts attempting to stick their noses in what some believe to be atheist formed pools of pee-pee (I reckon), is pretty much de rigueur. [Read more...]
Today, let us take a few minutes of our time to thank God for the blessing of sending His son into the world. Let us also pray for protection from the storms of life, both natural and man-made. It seems that the most devastating storms are those of the man-made variety. They rob us spiritually more than materially, and the spiritual is to the material as 19 is to 1. [Read more...]
Earlier today, I shared the latest from the USCCB’s stance on religious liberty. Bishop William Lori’s Ad-hoc Committee on Religious Freedom’s statement was long, and involved. From what I read, it seemed well thought out, above board, and non-partisan. It even dipped into the history of religious freedom in our country, though more historical background of this type needs to be shared with the faithful and all citizens. [Read more...]
He starts his latest post over on the National Catholic Register like a marathoner who has just hit “the wall.”
I’m tired. Are you?
We believers, Catholics, Protestant, Jewish and the rest, we are beleaguered. I don’t know about you, I am tired. [Read more...]
Recently, I finished reading John C.H. Wu’s Beyond East and West. It is a great story and one which sadly is out of print. It led me to reading the book written by John’s friend Lou Tseng-Tsiang, briefly Prime Minister and former Foreign Minister of China. Here he is as a Benedictine monk and priest named Dom Pierre-Célestin. Is it just me, or does he look like the very model of serenity? [Read more...]
I have to admit to you, dear reader, that I am ignorant about much regarding the way “things” are. The world is a very complex place, and this is mostly through our own, dare I say it, grievous faults. And I also need to let you know that the semi-annual fracus in the Holy Places, like the one I shared with you yesterday, both sadden me and excite my interest in learning how they came about. [Read more...]
Let me preface this post with an acknowledgement of the fact that philosopher George Santayana died as an atheist. But as an atheist, Santayana put pen to paper on some Catholic ideas that lack only one thing, really. And that one thing is the simple faith of a child in order to believe them. [Read more...]
The only religion I know of that freely embraces the mystery of not only God, but of life itself, is the Catholic Church. You may argue otherwise, and march forth with examples from Judaism, Islam, and Eastern Orthodoxy, etc. but the fact of the matter is, in my admittedly brief and noncomprehensive experience, only the Catholic Church embraces the mysteriousness of existence in all of its majesty and glory. [Read more...]
I think that is what Our Lord would say anyway, much to the consternation of “bright,”militant atheists everywhere. Of course, that is after He spit coffee out on His keyboard laughing. Go read Dawkins attempt to make sense of his brilliant idea over at The Blaze. Truly a more hilarious title (I added a few words) for an article has never been written, [Read more...]
The teaser trailer for 26 Martyrs, the animated short that will serve as a companion piece to the docu-drama All That Remains, is now complete and was released today on that films’ Facebook page. It looks like a “must see” film to me. At the time of posting this, there have only been 28 page views according to YouTube. Have a look and help that number grow, [Read more...]
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