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Zossima's Love

Keeping with our off-beat fare this week, we thought we'd present one of favorite passages from Dostoyevsky's writing. It's found in the “Thoughts and Teachings of the Elder Zossima” of The Brothers Karamazov. Fr. Zossima, the revered elder of Alyosha Karamazov, is dying. He

Why Should Bloggers Blog?

> According to Maximus the Great, there are three different purposes for which gifted men write without fault or constraint: the first, as memoranda for themselves; the second, for the benefit of others; the third, for obedience. With this last purpose many writings have been composed for those who humbly

Something for Sunday Morning

> Drive from the soul the vain thoughts about wealth, the excitement and distress related to it, the worries that are the thorns of existence and that suffocate the seed of life. Clement of Alexandra.

Going to Europe?

If so, you may want to check this: > To experience Old Europe, there's no better way than by eating, sleeping, walking, studying, and praying in the houses of monks and nuns. Europe's Monastery and Convent Guesthouses: A Pilgrim's Travel Guide by Kevin J.

Abelard and Heloise

The Claremont Institute has published a nice piece about the greatest love affair of the Middle Ages. Link [http://www.claremont.org/writings/crb/summer2005/bramwell.html]. Excerpt: > Abelard and Heloise inhabited a world that, like our own, was changing rapidly. They saw themselves and their times as modern.

Ukraine Vampire

A vampire affiliated with the occult? Say it ain't so: > Diana Butenko, 29, lured homeless youngsters to her apartment saying she would feed them. > But she plied them with booze, got them to sniff glue then tied them to beds. Butenko – now under arrest – slashed their

Not an Oxymoron?

In case you missed this new phrase: > Catholic evangelicals: This counterintuitive term identifies Roman Catholics who embrace much of the public-witness style of evangelical Protestants. “They have the fire and zeal usually associated with evangelicals,” said William Portier, a religious studies professor at the University of Dayton and the

Praying for a Good Game

Christianity Today has a decent essay about the theology of golf. We say "decent" because it's not great. CT runs good essays, but there's always something missing. Oh well, if you like golf and religion, you'll get a kick out of this

Tibetan Buddhist Counterpart to St. Therese

> The Dalai Lama has admitted mosquitoes drive him crazy because his Buddhist faith rules he cannot kill them. > Even when the insects bite him, he is supposed to stay calm and just shoo them away instead. > Buddhists are not allowed to kill, but the Tibetan spiritual leader

As More Christians Turn Their Back on Public Education . . .

. . . Catholics are turning their back on their 150-year-old education tradition: > This week, the Presbyterian Church in America voted to receive a personal resolution encouraging Christian parents to remove their children from the public schools and see to it that they receive a thoroughly Christian education. Link [http://www.religionjournal.