The Nothing Desire “The poor monk is lord of world.” St. John Climacus Bruno was a rising star of eleventh-century European culture. A master of the cathedral school (the precursor to the university) of Rheims, he taught grammar, poetry, philosophy and theology. He became head of Rheims by age thirty. The most
The Reality of Fr. Damien A few years ago, the future of the Catholic Church AOC said a statue of Fr. Damien of Molokai at the Capitol building is an example of “patriarchy and white supremacist culture.” She quickly realized that she picked a bad example and backpedaled faster than Deion Sanders in his prime,
18 Things You Can Learn from A Monk of the Eastern Church Mystical. Passionate. Spiritual. Cranky. Monastic. Urban. Greek Orthodox. Catholic. French. English. Anonymous. . . . . . Lev (Leo) Gillet. All of those words describe an unusual man who would become known to readers as “A Monk of the Eastern Church.” He was born in France in 1893. Shortly before World War I, he became
Federal Government Admits Catholicism is True Well, not really, but indirectly, through PBS' Flannery O'Connor documentary I greatly enjoyed PBS documentary, American Masters: Flannery O'Connor, on PBS. I thought the producers respected her intense Catholicism. I'm sure they could've found critics to say sacrilegious things like, “Her