Blessed Henri de Lubac?
George Weigel at First Things
Catholicism
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
Why the Dodgers Chose Anti-Catholicism
Raymond de Souza at First Things
"Catholic is About as Sane as You Get"
Jordan Peterson, interviewing James Lindsay. Go to 39:08: Peterson:
One of the things I learned from you is that Catholic was about as sane as you get. So you destroy that, if you think the Catholics are insane, you wait until you see what that's protecting you
When Drunkenness is a Mortal Sin Redux
Aquinas appears to make it pretty hard to get so drunk that inebriation, by
itself, is mortal
A reader sent this link to me. Is getting drunk a sin?
[https://www.catholiccompany.com/getfed/is-getting-drunk-a-sin/]
The site’s conclusion: Yup, getting drunk is a serious sin.
But the site doesn’