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March 2015

March 19, 2015
The Calling of St. Matthew by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio When I was growing up,...
March 15, 2015
    I have to be honest. I was jarred when I first heard it....
March 11, 2015
    I was only nine when I saw it. And it is strange that...
March 06, 2015
  Forgive me. I am in a dark mood. There is darkness these days. And...
March 03, 2015
Let us imagine a Country with an inordinate hatred. A hatred of a People. Whenever...

February 2015

February 26, 2015
I. The Saint It was a warm August day in 1958 and the water was...
February 14, 2015
  It was a masterpiece and it was his secret. Until this moment. In the...
February 05, 2015
  It was quite a few years ago when it happened. But, boy, did it...

January 2015

January 28, 2015
Lieutenant Ivan Martynushkin peered at what lay in front of him. On a bitter January...
January 20, 2015
Author's Note: For Catholic Schools Week, I've been asked to speak to my parish congregation...
January 15, 2015
And rising very early, going out, he went into a desert place: and he prayed. Simon...

December 2014

December 31, 2014
The Confession by Guiseppe Molteni  I have a confession to make. Years ago, before I...
December 24, 2014
Nativity with Saints Francis & Lawrence by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio --------- Christ Child Did...
December 22, 2014
Suffer Little Children to Come Unto Me by Fritz von Uhde "A story is a...
December 16, 2014
The First Mourning by William-Adolphe Bouguereau Then the Lord asked Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?"...
December 07, 2014
  As the second Advent candle is lit and the days are advancing to Christmas,...

November 2014

November 30, 2014
"Christians used the word 'advent' to express their relationship with Jesus Christ: Jesus is the...
November 26, 2014
It's late - very late. It is the second night of protests in Ferguson, Missouri. It...
November 24, 2014
It was April, 1935. And Winston Churchill, a lowly Member of the British Parliament, was...
November 13, 2014
I'd never been to a retreat like this. This would be my first. I guess...
November 07, 2014
It was 1951 and she was much too young to be so sick. Much too...

October 2014

October 30, 2014
  "We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult,...
October 25, 2014
We crowded into a small room at my internal medicine clinic and looked at each...
October 23, 2014
"The Four Men is the greatest of books." - Fr. James Schall "Read anything of...
October 19, 2014
Recently, on my Instagram account (catholic thinker), I posted a quote by George Orwell that...
October 14, 2014
Editors’ Note: This article is part of the Patheos Public Square on Remembering the Dead:...
October 08, 2014
Recently, thanks to Elizabeth Scalia's piece on Winston Churchill, I got to thinking. Leadership really...

September 2014

September 29, 2014
"The trouble about the world today is that there's not enough religion in it. There's...
September 25, 2014
"It is better to light a candle to than to curse the darkness." - Anonymous...
September 18, 2014
It happened one night years ago at the local Lutheran church. I should have seen...
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