{"id":78793,"date":"2026-04-22T06:53:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T11:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicbard\/?p=78793"},"modified":"2026-04-22T06:53:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T11:53:20","slug":"meet-catholic-writer-thinker-and-romantic-douglas-obanion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicbard\/2026\/04\/meet-catholic-writer-thinker-and-romantic-douglas-obanion\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Catholic Writer, Thinker and Romantic Douglas O’Banion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

One of the greatest aspects of writing is the ability to think. Without thinking one cannot ponder, reflect, and contemplate ideas, memories, jokes or other things that combine to make words written on a page for others to read so they can then think about what you wrote. Thinking can also be one of the hardest things to do when writing because it requires focus, recall and concentration. When you\u2019re tired often as I am, it becomes a challenge. Our next writer reminds us of the joys and romance of thinking as a writer. Take a journey of the mind and heart as you<\/p>\n

Meet Catholic Writer, Thinker and Romantic Douglas O\u2019Banion<\/p>\n

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C.B. 1. \u201cTell me something interesting about yourself.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Author Douglas \u2013<\/strong> When I was around four years old, I was the ring bearer in a wedding held on my step-dad\u2019s side. That experience seemed to have hightened my respect for enduring love and family values. Therefore, starting from the age of around four, I have been a romantic.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, during my childhood I was an impatient<\/u> romantic. I was five years old the first time I asked a girl to marry me. The next time I asked a girl to marry me I was ten years old. Both of those girls were Scottish-Americans. So, I thought that maybe God was trying to tell me something more than just \u2018Scottish wives are hard to catch\u2019.<\/p>\n

One can never be sure about what God is trying to say specifically. Nonetheless, I was comfortable making the decision to, while living here in the U.S., serve the smallest minority on the British Archipelago; that minority who support The Church (a religious monarchy) as well as support the United Kingdom (a constitutional monarchy).<\/p>\n

With much of life spent serving Britain at large and the small minority of Catholics who supported the U.K.\u2019s constitutional monarchy, some people might label me a \u2018Jacobite\u2019. But I can\u2019t be a Jacobite due to the fact that I accept the world as it is. I am not an activist.<\/p>\n

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C.B. 2 \u201cWhat makes a good Catholic writer?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Author Douglas<\/strong> \u2013 An unspoken respect for your readers\u2019 personal integrity.<\/p>\n

C.B. 3 \u201cWhat do you like about being a Catholic\/Christian writer?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Author Douglas<\/strong> \u2013 What I sometimes, but not always, like is that writing reveals \u2018you\u2019 to you and it matures you. On that point, I often think of G.K. Chesterton who was a successful British author who didn\u2019t convert to Catholisism until later in his career. I suspect that during so many hours of writing Chesterton cleared away the brush from his mind to eventually reveal that he had always been Catholic. All author\u2019s learn something when they write. Chesterton learned that he was Catholic. What I learned was that I like that sort of thing.<\/p>\n

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C.B. 4 \u201cWhat is the main focus of your particular writing or what do you like to write about?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Author Douglas<\/strong> \u2013 The main focus of my recent books is various applications of adoption. Adoptions of close family members, adoptions of new homelands, adotions of new information, and other adoptions. \u00a0The subject of adoption encompasses or touches vital topics including; loyalty, honour, rebirth, law, mercy, trust, the sense of belonging, personal integrity, ethics, and the growth of The Church\u2019s membership.<\/p>\n

C.B. 5 \u201cHow does your Catholic Faith influence your writing?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Author Douglas<\/strong> \u2013 One of the many ways that my Catholic Faith (particularly the part of attending Mass and paying attention) influences my writing is that it makes it natural for me to not belabour any point that I am making in writing. I think of it this way \u2013 My Catholic mindset, makes my writer\u2019s default set to \u2018quality over quantity\u2019.<\/p>\n

C.B. 6 \u201cWhat\u2019s your favorite article\/post\/book\/story you have ever written?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Author Douglas \u2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Gift<\/u><\/p>\n

Dear reader, the world is full of imperfect people who imperfectly write, imperfectly love, imperfectly speak, and imperfectly draw conclusions.<\/p>\n

Considering that God knows all (He is omniscient), I\u2019m not surprised that He gives mankind a gift for us to use to smooth out the rough, imperfect edges of ourselves, the rough, imperfect edges of each other, and the rough, imperfect edges of our societies.<\/p>\n

People have always had various ideas about how they want to go about addressing mankind\u2019s imperfections. Therefore, the Gift has often been ignored in lieu of people\u2019s own imaginative ideas about how to deal with human imperfections.<\/p>\n

As for me, however, when I\u2019m faced with imperfections or limitations, I often simply reach for the Gift. It\u2019s a gift that when rejected can start wars, and when accepted can bring peace. It\u2019s a gift that when rejected can leave wounds opened, and when accepted, heals. It is, in my opinion, a divine gift that bridges the gaps between our imperfections and the higher hopes that God has for us. It\u2019s a divine gift that also bridges the gaps between our personal aspirations and true reality. This gift quiets arguments, stills waves, and rights the imperfectly innocent. It\u2019s a gift that a person can know they have accepted perhaps only when they show the Gift to other people.<\/p>\n

The Gift is Mercy.<\/p>\n

I know of that gift as well as I do only because of God\u2019s earlier gift: Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n

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C.B. 7 \u201cWhat\u2019s your favorite topic\/subject to write about?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Author Douglas<\/strong> \u2013 True Romance; that which is between a man and woman destined to be one another\u2019s husband and wife. That\u2019s my favourite genre to write, but I likely won\u2019t publish any of it because I only publish my writtings or books that I want to hand down to my children.<\/p>\n

C.B. 8 \u201cWhat\u2019s your favorite scripture verse?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Author Douglas<\/strong> \u2013 Matthew 5:37 Let your \u2018Yes\u2019 mean \u2018yes\u2019 and your \u2018No\u2019. Anything more is from the evil one.<\/p>\n

C.B. 9 \u201cWhat are you currently working on?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Author Douglas<\/strong> \u2013 I am currently working on a nonprofit book.<\/p>\n

C.B. 10 \u201cName a favorite Saint or Catholic or other person who inspires you in your life.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Author Douglas<\/strong> \u2013 My Catholic ancestor who was the first of us to convert from paganism. Such a Catholic ancestor existed for most Westerners alive today.<\/p>\n

C.B. 11 \u201c\u201dWho is your favourite living author?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Author Douglas<\/strong> \u2013 Pope Leo XIV<\/p>\n

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C.B. 12 \u201cIf you could have lunch with any deceased writter who would it be, what would you eat, and what would you talk about?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Author Douglas<\/strong> \u2013 It would be C.S. Lewis. We\u2019d eat a roasted chicken served with fruit and a loaf of crusty french bread. At the earliest convenient time during lunch, and after he told me \u2018no\u2019 to any questions regarding Heaven and the afterlife, I would ask him to tell me about his time spent at The Eagle and Child Pub when he and the other members of The Inklings met there in the 1930\u2019s and 1940\u2019s.<\/p>\n

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C.B. 13 \u201cName a favorite movie\/tv show or music you find worth sharing with others.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Author Douglas<\/strong> \u2013 Miracles from Heaven (movie 2016)<\/p>\n

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C.B. 14 \u201cCan you see one of your books being made into a movie or tv series?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Author Douglas\u00a0<\/strong> \u2013 Yes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

C.B. 15 \u201cName your favorite historical event.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Author Douglas<\/strong> \u2013 The signing of The Edict of Milan in 313 A.D..<\/p>\n

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Bust of Emperor Constantine I, Roman, 4th century<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This interview was published on April 22, 2026<\/p>\n

The day these events took place<\/p>\n

1876<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 The first\u00a0National League<\/a>\u00a0baseball game is played at the\u00a0Jefferson Street Grounds<\/a>\u00a0in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

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1889<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 At noon, thousands rush to claim land in the\u00a0Land Rush of 1889<\/a>. Within hours the cities of\u00a0Oklahoma City<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Guthrie<\/a>\u00a0are formed with populations of at least 10,000.<\/p>\n

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Painting depicting the land rush\u2019s beginning on April 22nd, 1889<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

1906<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 The\u00a01906 Intercalated Games<\/a>\u00a0open in\u00a0Athens<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Vaulting at the 1906 Games<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

1930<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the\u00a0London Naval Treaty<\/a>\u00a0regulating\u00a0submarine<\/a>\u00a0warfare and limiting\u00a0shipbuilding<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Members of the United States delegation en route to the conference, January 1930<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

1969<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 British yachtsman Sir\u00a0Robin Knox-Johnston<\/a>\u00a0wins the\u00a0Sunday Times<\/i>\u00a0Golden Globe Race<\/a>\u00a0and completes the first solo non-stop circumnavigation of the world.<\/p>\n

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Robin Knox-Johnston finishing his circumnavigation of the world in Suhaili as the winner of the Golden Globe Race<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

1970<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 The first\u00a0Earth Day<\/a> is celebrated.<\/p>\n

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The unofficial Earth Flag created by John McConnell includes The Blue Marble photograph taken by the crew of Apollo 17.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

C.B. 16 \u201cWhat else do you want people to know about anything?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Author Douglas\u00a0<\/strong> \u2013 I\u2019d like them to know the value of a classical education by them getting one.<\/p>\n

Also, I Have published twin books<\/p>\n

National Fidelity<\/a><\/p>\n

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and National Expectations.<\/a><\/p>\n

I was told that after arriving in Ireland during the first century AD, the Irish gave my ancestor and his brother a covert Gaelic-sounding name that was a reference to my ancestor Queen Boudicca. That covert name was Ui Bhanain.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t speak or read the Irish language. But by way of dictionaries, I know that Ui translates into English as the words \u2018from\u2019, \u2018son of\u2019, or \u2018grandson of\u2019. I also know that the Irish word bhan is associated with the words \u2018bean\u2019, \u2018woman\u2019, and \u2018lady\u2019. Therefore, I can only guess that the ain suffix stems from the Irish number one a haon (pronounced \u2018ah hain\u2019). With those things accounted for I estimate that in Irish Gaelic my British ancestor\u2019s covert name Ui Bhanain meant \u2018From the First Lady\u2019.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The former I published in 2023 and from an entirely British-Catholic perspective. The later I published last year (2025) and presented it from the perspective of an American giving Britain a British book.<\/p>\n

By me making the books British and American twins, I was easily able to get down to the fundamentals concerning the importance of Christianity in the Western world. In the books I use a fictitious storyline to create a court case that was settled in Saint Patrick\u2019s time 432AD , and in the last chapter I settle the court case again in the year 2025AD.<\/p>\n

I worded the court case in such a way that I didn\u2019t need to prove that Christianity was absolutely true. I merely had to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that British Society benefits from Christianity. The book unfolds like a court case that starts in chapter one with a lot of information and then proceeds chapter by chapter getting more and more contextual. I included the sorts of writing the Western intellect has been built from; poems, parables, essays, and court documents.<\/p>\n

I use the twin books not just to strengthen our international friendship and N.A.T.O. alliance, but also to comfortably contrast the two nations (The UK and The U.S.) I contrast the two by having the British version end with a monarch\u2019s signature, and the American version left blank where a monarch would be. Our two nations have had that difference for 250 now, and we still have common intellectual roots, that are not political common roots, but rather Catholic.<\/p>\n

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Paul the Apostle depicted in Saint Paul Writing His Epistles, a c.\u20091619 portrait by Valentin de Boulogne<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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