This morning I tumbled down a rabbit hole of divinely inspired social media. I always knew that I could connect with friends and acquaintances through Facebook and Twitter, but I hadn’t considered using those platforms to strengthen my connection to God. As it turns out the Internet offers . . . . Continue Reading »
in the Guardian : . . . My best friend and I had been friends for 20 years, and then, one day, nothing. She stopped returning my calls; she ignored my messages. She was living in another country so I had no way of reaching her, no way to confront her. Months passed and I realised that my best . . . . Continue Reading »
Someone called “Writing Prompter” suggests this way of writing an essay : Pick up anything in your house with text on it that isn’t a book or magazine, then “Freewrite for fifteen minutes, recording as many words and phrases from the objects as you can, and taking note of . . . . Continue Reading »
Ludovine de la Rochère speaks to French protesters against same-sex marriage : We are neither a political movement, nor a faith-based movement, nor a coalition of hateful homophobes. Our adversaries have tried everything to paint us in such a way. But they have failed, because one cannot deny . . . . Continue Reading »
The National Catholic Reporter is not happy . The American bishops have appointed someone of “conventional views on marriage and sexuality” as the new head of their secretariat of doctrine and canonical affairs. Conventional means, as you will have guessed, Catholic . Fr. Peter . . . . Continue Reading »
Maybe the problem in the last election was Romney, or maybe we can attribute the elections results to other things. . . . . Continue Reading »
Catholic priest, sociologist, and prolific author Fr. Andrew Greeley died last night at the age of eighty-five. He had been mentioned in our pages no small number of times , sometimes in critical terms. Here’s an excerpt from what Fr. Richard John Neuhaus said about his book The Catholic . . . . Continue Reading »
So I read in the thread the request that we postmodern conservatives develop an opinion on the view of Alan Jacobs on Wendell Berry on PLACE. I naturally thought he’d been endorsing Berry’s view, and I’d have to criticize Alan from a Christian point of view. And then we’d be . . . . Continue Reading »
Anna Karenina on Contraception Just Thomism Repenting the Failure of Parish Catechesis Barbara R. Nicolosi, Year of Faith The Essayification of Everything Christy Wampole, Opinionator Evolution and the Eye Test S. Adam Seagrave, Public Discourse A New Moral Treatment for the Mentally Ill James . . . . Continue Reading »
reports: Mothers are the primary breadwinners in four out of 10 U.S. households with minor children, a record number driven up by growing populations of single moms and married women who make more than their husbands, according to a report released Wednesday from the Pew Research Center. . . . . . . Continue Reading »
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