We’ve talked a few times about the very real healing that can come through annulments but over at OSV Mary DeTurris Poust and Dennis Poust have together written a particularly good piece on the myths (and there are a lot of myths out there) and realities of this process, which is very much a mischaracterized and misunderstood part of the ministry of the church. The Pousts write from the perspective of a couple who has gone through this process together,... Read more
I love this. I have needed St. Therese (and St. Catherine of Siena – another strong woman) all day today, and I loved hearing our Holy Father expound on the Little Way which is actually the way of powerful warriors who have become masters in the art of spiritual warfare because they have trusted with their whole hearts and thus been given the greatest of weapons: love, love, love. “My vocation shall be love,” said Therese! Read more
For reasons I will never understand, when it comes to this ongoing issue with Father John Corapi, my encouraging a “wait and see” attitude has translated (for some) as meaning “Mean Lizzie hates Fr. Corapi and cannot wait to see him destroyed, bwwwaaaahahahaha!” Which, as I have said before, is crap. But people believe what they want, and that’s human nature, I guess. So, a couple of hours ago, I get one of those “you hate Fr. Corapi” emails out... Read more
A few weeks ago, marveling at the sad, guilty dog, I wrote about the Brooklyn Diocese’s video scholarship contest: In an effort to help promote New York’s All Day Confessions event, happening Monday April 18th, The Diocese of Brooklyn in conjunction with both the Archdiocese of New York and Diocese of Rockville Centre are launching a grassroots digital campaign called i-Confess. Using both social and digital media, the goal of this campaign is to generate interest in the act of... Read more
As I anticipate coming into my tenth year as a Benedictine Oblate, I rejoice that the effect of Benedictine spirituality in my life has helped me to become less savage than I was, although I am still quite feral in some ways. But, as I explain in my latest column at First Things, there is a part of the Holy Rule of St. Benedict that still has me stymied: Benedictine Hospitality, and St. Benedict’s dictum that we must receive everyone... Read more
Well, the spinal tap on my cousin Joseph came back normal. If you recall last week we thought he might die within hours, and then there was hope. The doctors are now saying that yes, they think it’s a case of over-radiation, after all, and yes, maybe some of it did touch his brain stem, and that’s what’s causing all the trouble, except, by golly, maybe it’s this virus and until they know for sure, they can’t really do much... Read more
Instapundit’s Glenn Reynolds has written a thoughtful piece about inventories and happenstance, for the Washington Examiner: Japan’s earthquake was in some ways a triumph of preparedness: Thanks to strict building codes, not a single building in Tokyo collapsed. But the earthquake, and the tsunami it produced, have had impacts that go well beyond the immediate. In particular, the damage is exposing the extent to which modern supply-chain management has produced a system that is so lean it lacks the reserve... Read more
Leticia Velasquez has written a beautiful witness to life and love on the main page: It was the first day of spring in 2005. I was at the florist in the seaside village where I grew up, assembling a basket of flowering spring plants for my sister, who had just given birth. Immersing my hands in budding greenery, inhaling the earthy scents—it helped to chase away, for a few moments, the looming death which occupied my mind. Later that evening,... Read more
Photo credit: Patrick Novecosky If it’s Friday, there must be something new to read about Father John Corapi! That does seem to be the truth of it, doesn’t it? In a way, it’s a shame. On these Fridays in Lent we should be turned away from the headlines and the news, looking at Christ and his passion. But then again, EWTN has come under a lot of fire recently, so this response is news. This is not the first time... Read more
When my Elder son was very small, and was trying to figure out facial expressions, he would ask me, or my husband, or the lady at the grocery store, “Are you ‘appy?” He was missing his h’s for a little while. Sometimes my husband and I will still tease each other with that. He’ll see me looking pensive and ask “are you ‘appy?” It’s a sweet question, and it always makes me smile, for the warm memories of my son... Read more
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