Top Posts To Read Why You Should Read The Catholic Bard FEBRUARY 10, 2021 Catholic Bard Easy Access Portal December 26, 2020 Catholic Bard Easy Access Portal Part 2 MAY 12, 2021 Catholic Bard Easy Access Part 3 MAY 12, 2022 400th Post on 2 Years of The Catholic Bard MAY 10, 2022 Free Spiritual Director MARCH 05, 2022 Let Us Pray MARCH 25, 2022 What I Believe as A Catholic SEPTEMBER 30, 2022 Broad Chorus Of Catholic Thinkers WRN #... Read more
The Catholic Bard is the one blog I love to read. I recommend everyone read it. –Pope Francis (Leader of the Catholic Church) 2 years ago the Patheos Catholic grand poobah Rebecca Bratten Weiss decided to take me in and graft me into the Patheos Catholic family. This has so far this has been my first and only real professional writing gig. Kristin and I published our first post on Mother’s Day May 10, 2020. Now on this May 10,... Read more
Were @ 399 posts two days before my 2nd year anniversary writing for the Catholic Bard. So here are some sleekly made music videos from some of my favorite modern day musical artists that have been produced so far in 2022. They have to write down the lyrics and play out the video before you can either watch or listen to it. So music and their accompanying videos counts for Writing Right Now. These are fun catchy songs you might... Read more
The Beginning of the Post How does one begin a book? (Or in my case a Blog Post) A letter, a word, soon a sentence, then another, and suddenly a paragraph is begotten—a two-sentence paragraph. Dickens, Melville, Odenkirk—all have faced the same query, and only one has failed. Melville. “Call me Ishmael.” Talk about giving up .-Bob Odenkirk, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama (2022) 2 More Posts to Go to Post 400. I suppose I need to mention what the latest happenings... Read more
The year keeps going and the books keep getting written and published. My goal in this post is simply to alert you to what is out there for you to read. So here are some newly published non-fiction books that caught my eye. They might be worth reading in entirety. In this list you will see books about non-humans and history, What it was like to be and takes to be an astronaut, The art of writing and storytelling, The... Read more
The year keeps going and the books keep getting written and published. My goal in this post is simply to alert you to what is out there for you to read. So here are some newly published Speculative Fiction that caught my eye. They might be worth reading in entirety. In this list you will see Anthologies of the Lost and Heroic, Evil Mothers and Wing Walkers Habitats for Dinos and Kaiju Monster Hunters and Flying Space Nuns Observing Time... Read more
The year keeps going and the books keep getting written and published. My goal in this post is simply to alert you to what is out there for you to read. So here are some newly published or soon to be published books that caught my eye. These Twelve : The Gospel Through the Apostles’ Eyes (2022) Catholic Answers Press by Rod Bennett These Twelve is certainly nothing so ambitious as a life of Christ; so please don’t be surprised... Read more
I have been racking my brain for a few days trying to come up with a new post. In 6 posts I will hit 400 writings of The Catholic Bard. Post 400 I plan on publishing on The Catholic Bard’s 2nd year anniversary. I also stayed up till after 3:30 AM when I should be sleeping as I have to get up to go to work at 9:30 AM. I did however make it to 8:30 AM Mass. Even though... Read more
In this issue of WRN, I decided to look at what some of my favorite Catholic speakers and writers were putting out in terms of online content. I also looked to some other people I have on my list of Catholic authors in which I have talked about in some other articles and some I have not. I have also included some material from Catholic sites I generally disagree with that also have some good content that is worth looking... Read more
Continuing where we left off in Writing Right Now # 5: Rays of Truth Part 1 here are the other 7 belief sections of Patheos. From Jewish Patheos Blogs Experiencing the Passover On the eve of Exodus we prepared ourselves by painting. Turning to the materials we had in abundance all around us, we wasted nothing of what we had. We harvested hyssop growing scraggly out of the arid soil, poking its way through the cracks in the walls. Familiar... Read more
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