The Dude Abides
Now wouldn't THAT be something? I don't know enough yet to speculate (though I'm chuffed the woman mentioned most often is the Irish theologian Linda Hogan). Read more
Now wouldn't THAT be something? I don't know enough yet to speculate (though I'm chuffed the woman mentioned most often is the Irish theologian Linda Hogan). Read more
book pileEvery day a new book arrives in the mail from one publisher or another, or by my own choice from various booksellers (independent whenever possible). Lately it's been a bumper crop. Here's what I'm reading these days... Read more
Pope Francis greets each newlywed couple personally, once the General Audience ends. Read more
Rob Bell and Oprah. BOOM. Read more
"I’m almost always stricken by an experience of God. Broken into a million pieces and put back together." ~ Nadia Bolz-Weber Read more
To focus solely on those externals is missing the point. Bolz-Weber has a bold and unmistakable voice, preaching the Gospel of Grace in a way the world needs to hear. And we might not listen if her appearance, vocabulary, and backstory were more neat, pious or easy. Read more
“The saints are friends of God,” Papa Frank said. But they “are not superheroes, nor were they born perfect. They are like us, each one of us.” Read more
" We all are fragile, we all have limits. Do not be afraid. We all have them. " ~ Papa Frank today at the general audience in St. Peter's Square, Vatican City Read more
No, I never expected to return to writing for newspapers. But not unlike Don Corleone, the Register's editor made me an offer I simply couldn't refuse. My first day on the job was the day before Pope Benedict XVI retired and a week or so later, I found myself standing in St. Peter's Square staring at the same smoke stack on top of the Sistine Chapel that I had spent many hours surveilling for signs of white smoke eight years earlier when they fella who had just ridden off into the sunset (by helicopter and not figuratively this time) had been elected Pontifex Rex. Read more
On Monday, Papa Frank welcomed Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese Nobel Peace Prize-winning heroine, to the Vatican where, among other things, he told her they were “fundamentally on the same wavelength” regarding nonviolence, democracy and “peaceful coexistence in today’s world,” according to the UK’s Catholic Herald. I love this. She’s a Buddhist. He’s a Catholic (obviously). Same wavelength. Why? The Catholic Herald says: The Holy Father told me that emotions such as hatred and fear diminish life and the... Read more
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