Category: Catholicism

Today’s One-Liner (#158)

You may be exhausted with work, even kill yourself, but unless your work is interwoven with love, it is useless. –Mother Teresa, Everything Starts from Prayer, Selected and Arranged by Anthony Stern

Keeping It Simple

Shortly after publishing his novel Helena, in which he retold the story of the emperor Constantine’s mother and her quest for the true cross, Evelyn Waugh received a congratulatory note from a friend, the poet…

Today’s One-Liner (#156)

Someone who knows Aristotle, Plato, Cicero, Augustine, or Aquinas will never be too far from the truth, never out-of-date. –James V. Schall, S.J., A Student’s Guide to Liberal Learning 

Today’s One-Liner (#155)

When our relationships become strained we can ask ourselves what Jesus would have done—or, when that seems too lofty, what Saint Teresa or Saint Francis wold have done.  —Eknath Easwaran, Original Goodness, 166

Today’s One-Liner (#154)

 Wherever the corpse is, that is where the vultures will gather. –Matthew 24: 28, New Jerusalem translation For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together. –Matthew 24:28, King James translation

Today’s One-Liner (#153)

I would like to suffer and die in a knightly manner, even to the shedding of the last drop of my blood, to hasten the day of gaining the whole world for the Immaculate Mother…

Don’t Take Everybody to Be Your Friend

We see the same salmon-cream-lilac obtuseness when Lefties try to talk religion. They live and move and have their being in a secular elite culture that has nothing but disdain for Christianity and Christians; at…

Today’s One-Liner (#152)

The institutional Church is the most economical and efficient means by which the Christian reality can be made accessible, at least minimally, to masses of people.  –James Hitchcock, The Decline and Fall of Radical Catholicism,…