Kathryn Lopez
Fr. Dwight Longenecker has a beautiful post on Dawn Eden’s My Peace I Give You, as well as her very name. You can get a taste of her book in my long interview with her for National Review Online here and extended interview with her here. Read more
Fr. Dwight Longenecker has a beautiful post on Dawn Eden’s My Peace I Give You, as well as her very name. You can get a taste of her book in my long interview with her for National Review Online here and extended interview with her here. Read more
Pretty clear who he is not voting for, via John Allen. Read more
Fr. Marie-Dominique Philippe, O.P.: The cross is unbearable if viewed from the outside. The cross is wisdom if viewed in the light of faith, that is, from the inside, as God himself views it. The quote comes courtesy of Magnificat, as essential meditations so often do. Read more
From the pope’s Angelus message yesterday in Lebanon: “May men understand that they are all brothers!” A prayer for everyday, everywhere. Read more
How we vote — if we vote — is part of who we are and what we do with our time here. Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia writes: The only king Christians have is Jesus Christ. The obligation to seek and serve the truth belongs to each of us personally. The duty to love and help our neighbor belongs to each of us personally. We can’t ignore or delegate away these personal duties to anyone else or any government... Read more
B16 talked life, family, and natural law in Lebanon Saturday: The wealth of any country is found primarily in its inhabitants. The country’s future depends on them, individually and collectively, as does its capacity to work for peace. A commitment to peace is possible only in a unified society. Unity, on the other hand, is not the same as uniformity. Social cohesion requires unstinting respect for the dignity of each person and the responsible participation of all in contributing the... Read more
After I listened to Cardinal Dolan’s prayer at the Democratic Convention in Charlotte last week, I couldn’t help but think of Mother Teresa. Surely you remember that little lady’s bold National Prayer Breakfast speech. Peggy Noonan tells the story of the woman sitting next to her who wrote a laundry list instead of listened. I guess that’s what you’ve got to do if you’re not going to confront the cultural evils in our midst. I wrote about it a bit... Read more
“Tell Christ the King I shall be with him soon,” young José Sánchez del Río, reportedly told a fellow martyr of the Cristero War in Mexico, before he was murdered. His holy story is among those told in the movie, For Greater Glory, released on DVD today. The movie is about the Cristero War and has been held up as an important story about religious liberty and the lengths some have had to go to defend their God-given right to... Read more
Honestly? The smell in the New York office of National Review. It was unmistakable smell of barbecue. A smell isn’t an image, but no image has never quite captured what happened there that morning like that smell did. That reliable AOL Instant Messenger that kept communications going when phone lines were overloaded. Learning Barbara Olson had died. The Missing signs. NR’s offices are just a few blocks from one of the gathering places for people looking for information about someone... Read more
From Pope Benedict this Sunday in Rome: At the heart of today’s Gospel (Mk 7, 31-37) there is a small but, very important word. A word that – in its deepest meaning- sums up the whole message and the whole work of Christ. The Evangelist Mark writes it in the same language that Jesus pronounced it in, so that it is even more alive to us. This word is “Ephphatha,” which means, “be opened.” Let us look at the context... Read more
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