Why I Am Catholic
No! It’s an ancient Japanese art form of painting in water and transferring the results to paper. Really. Check this out! (more…) Read more
No! It’s an ancient Japanese art form of painting in water and transferring the results to paper. Really. Check this out! (more…) Read more
Often times cataclysmic events leave us at a loss. We have feelings and thoughts but struggle to put them into words. Some have been blessed with the gift of the poetic art. These painters of images with words serve to bring the ineffable into focus in our minds. (more…) Read more
You just thrown their dead bodies away. And then when you are discovered, and your feet are held to the fire, you complain that it would take a “monumental effort” to do our war dead justice. Yes, our dead troops who out of one side of our mouths we act as though they are holy and sacred, while with our actions we shun, ignore, and toss them into a landfill in Virginia. The Washington Post has the sad, unbelievable, story.... Read more
The little post I shared yesterday about the Sacraments was, in my opinion, just so much straw. I’m no Thomas Aquinas, not by a long shot, but its difficult to put into words the difference that the Sacraments make in the lives of the Faithful versus not having them. (more…) Read more
Today is the Feast day commemorating Saint Ambrose, Bishop of Milan and one of the first four Doctors of the Church. The painting above depicts St. Ambrose with Emperor Theodosius of Rome. The reason they got together? The Emperor had ordered the massacre of 7,000 people in Thessalonica, and Ambrose demanded that he do public penance. (more…) Read more
I’ve been real busy these last few days with a bit of a family emergency. Let me just say that it has involved family members, a hospital, co-workers, friends, strangers, priests and God. In other words, it has been just another usual day for me here on planet Earth. (more…) Read more
Someone left a comment on a previous post that Hilaire Belloc was not only a horrible singer (that’s what I had said) but that, Nor could he do politics in an honourable way! (more…) Read more
Yes, yesterday was Sunday but you know what else it was? It was the Feast of St. Barbara. As a former member of November Battery, 5th Battalion, 14th Marines, let me tell you something: This is a feast day celebrated throughout the entire US Armed Forces in the Artillery Community. Knowing that, doesn’t this prayer intention make more sense? (more…) Read more
Or maybe he wrote them as songs in the first place? Have a listen and sing along. Lyrics of those that were published are available here: Tarantella, Ha’nacker Mill, The Islands (Cruise of the Nona), The Winged Horse. (more…) Read more
In need of a Marc Barnes fix? I’ve got just the ticket for you. You see what I said in the title. Marc’s busy at the moment. He’s off aceing his finals, and writing all kinds of epic papers, finishing up his first semester at Franciscan University in Steubenville. (more…) Read more
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