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on The Silmarillion.I love Eye of the Tiber so much.
Many of my readers know of the Lenaburg family:They have borne stunning and heroic witness to the dignity of human life in their care for their daughter Courtney. You can read their story over at their blog. Anyway, when it rains, it pours and they have had a plumbing catastrophe that is going to cost…
We live in evil times. I hardly need elaborate the multitude of crises that fill the globe. Sadly, many are being swept away by this flood of evil and are succumbing to an overwhelming anxiety and discouragement. But no matter how tempting it is, we must not shrink back. We must pray and fast with a living faith and a firm confidence—and there…
…on, among other things, the daft Church/State financial arrangments in Germany and how that provides vital background to the stuff the German bishops are doing and saying.I also like this quintessentially Welbornian clarity of thought about the media’s hyperfocus on Cdl. Kasper:(Well, first you should be wondering why the head of a national church that is…
The Cardinal Newman Society writes:The Cardinal Newman Society announced the 2015 edition of our Newman Guide to Choosing a Catholic College this today. We spent hundreds of hours reviewing and updating the information in this resource for Catholic families. This year’s edition was launched alongside “Recruit Me”—a new initiative to ensure students get recruited by…
So this past summer, a gung-ho filmmaker named Don Johnson (no, not the Miami Vice guy) bopped around the country doing interviews with a whole bunch of converts (including Yr. Obdt. Svt in my back yard):Now he is asking for help for funding the next phase of the project. He only needs $27,000, which is…
“Mark, have you been following the news coming out of the Synod? I’m sick with worry! Some of the ideas they are talking about aren’t at all what I learned from reliable Catholic sources!”Yes. That’s true. And that’s *normal*. A conciliar event in the life of the Church is when, in the memorable description of…
God rest his wonderful soul.
…in making Americans tribal and stupid. It also deeply poisons the unity of the Catholic Church in America.
The Global Challenges the Pope FacesSherry Weddell remarks:A timely reminder from Andrea Tornielli that the west is not the world. The west isn’t even the majority of the Christian world anymore:“More than half (106 bishops) of the almost two hundred individuals participating in the Extraordinary Synod on the Family which opened today in the Vatican…