WAYS TO HELP Amy Welborn’s family after the death of her husband: buying his books (royalties from his How-To Book of the Mass go to their children’s college fund), and contributing via PayPal. Amy has been a constant source of inspiration to me. I hardly know what to say, so I will just point you to these other links.

Michael Dubruiel’s final column includes this:

…Working with a very frail Father Benedict at the time, I was reminded of an interview that he had given some years earlier at EWTN with Doug Keck on Booknotes. During that interview, when Father Benedict’s book Arise From Darkness was first published, Doug asked Father Benedict to elaborate on something that Father had called the “big lie” in his book. The “big lie,” Father Benedict said, (and I’m paraphrasing him at this point), is to think that if we say all the right prayers and live correctly, then nothing bad will ever happen to us.

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