This Lent: Resolving without Resolving
(Essay)
Topic
Religion
A collection of 878 issues
Benedict in the City
My Kindle’s a cluttered attic, stuffed with a few books I pick at like a vulture when the mood strikes. Nothing I’d sink into, just odds and ends for those moments when the world’s noise gets too shrill.
One of them’s E. Michael Jones’ Benedict’s
We Either Flee Devils or Fight Them
Toward the end of The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield tells himself he will move out West and shut himself off from everyone and everything, possibly by posing as a deaf-mute.
If he pretends to be a deaf-mute, he reasons, people would have to write messages to him on
Six Potential Apparition Conclusions
From the conclusion of the Vatican's new norms for discerning apparitions
It’s Time We Recognize Noise as the Eighth Capital Sin
I’m thinking the list of seven capital sins — Pride, Envy, Avarice, Anger, Sloth, Gluttony, Lust — ought to be expanded to eight.
This may be audacious of me, and I’m not sure what type of campaign I’d need in order to obtain official recognition for an eighth sin,
A Sports Cliché that Can Improve Your Daily Life
"Take what the defense gives you."
Our local high school basketball coach was working with his talented but very young (8?) son. The father guarded his son. The son made the wrong move and turned the ball over.
His father said, "Take what the defense gives you.
The RCIA Haunting
Jayme Clune at National Catholic Register
The Fact Is, Saints Have Levitated
Daniel K. Williams at Mere Orthodoxy
Rodriguez and Maundy Thursday
From the conclusion
More Skeptics are at Least Scratching Their Heads about God These Days
Justin Brierley at Spectator World