“There is a disordered delight in despising or dismissing my interlocutor.”
I came across that tweet today and found it laugh-out-loud funny. I also thought it to be, in my own twisted way, something I could use as introduction to …
Category: Catholic Thought
“The real battle in which we are continually engaged”
I walked away tonight from the final night of a Scripture study (Priest, Prophet and King by then Father and now Bishop Robert Barron) and was enthralled by two …
What our monsters tell us
Simcha Fisher has put up a timely and relevant post, something I certainly think worth pondering given the back and forth that breaks out in social media and blogging …
“To not see one’s weakness is perhaps the greatest weakness of all.”
When I first saw her piece, I shared it on Facebook with a one word introduction. Profundity. And I meant it. Still do. She of course is Elizabeth Scalia …
Struck by the similarities
Not long ago, I received a phone call from my financial advisor. He calls regularly to check in and go over any changes to my portfolio and so I …
If you have a soul, this will nourish it…
While the haters continue to hate on this Pope, inside (sadly) and outside the Church, he continues to impact people whose lives so need impacting: It’s been nine days …
What was once called just plain good sense…
Ageless wisdom, because it’s sourced in Catholic teaching, from the Venerable and Most Reverend Fulton J. Sheen: A few generations ago it was the fashion to get behind Capitalism, …
Kirsten Powers awakens to the beauty and depth and riches of the Catholic faith
Just under two years ago, Msgr. Charles Pope wrote in part of Kirsten Powers’ conversion to evangelical Christianity: The other day I read a beautiful conversion story, a witness story …
“Anger only becomes a sin when…”
I tend to beat myself up over my occasional bouts of ticked-offness, thinking that as a Christian, as a Catholic, I’m called to higher things. I’ve often wished a …
The argument for a good conscience
“The readiness to believe evil about others is in a large part ammunition for a thousand scandals in our own hearts. But by finding black spots in others, they …