A Farewell Ballad to the Alleluia

by A Monk of Norcia

A poem for Septuagesima.
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29 Jan 2021 0

Grace Under Pressure

by George Weigel

The story of Abbot Thomas Frerking, OSB, deserves to be better known. Continue Reading »

30 May 2018 0

Mary on the Prairie

by Timothy George

The city of Bismarck was founded in 1872 in what was then the Dakota Territory, at a bend in the Missouri River where Lewis and Clark had stopped on their famous expedition to the West. Bismarck was chosen as the city’s name after the German chancellor Otto von Bismarck in hopes of luring German settlers and German investments to a part of the world far removed from the Rhineland. And the settlers came, Germans and others, attracted in part by a gold rush in the Black Hills not far away. Continue Reading »

6 Oct 2014 0

The Fast and Slow Growth

by Elizabeth Scalia

Having made my first promises in 2002 (after three years of dallying), next year I will celebrate ten years as a fully professed Benedictine Oblate. I’m sure my Holy Father Benedict is rolling his eyes, and thinking, “Oh, bully, kid, let me get my shoes and I’ll do a jig for you. Have you gotten that Rule down, yet?” Errr, well, no, Father. Not yet. Especially not that part about receiving all guests as Christ… . Continue Reading »

5 Apr 2011 0