Today’s One-Liner (#151)
My heroes showed me a source for strength far greater than myself.
Author: Mark J. Chmiel
Lessons from a Catholic Activist
Learn to Pivot Love the Ones You’re Given Embrace Mercy Learn to Grieve Find Your Heart Celebrate Life Unconditionally Beware of False Compassion Begin Anew –Lila Rose, Fighting for Life: Becoming a Force for Change…
Today’s One-Liner (#150)
By the first quarter of the twenty-first century, what is driving many Western converts into the Church is not resistance to Catholic teaching, but desired fidelity to it. –Mary Eberstadt, 1968 IS SO OVER
Life in the United States of Amnesia
So we plod along, more or less in the dark, more or less humiliated by the dreary quality of our prayer, our worship by turns inane and trivial, our sense of the holy vitiated, distracted,…
A Mission
After the Holocaust, no further doubt was possible. Isaac said so explicitly: the work he wanted to fashion would also be a surviving testimony to a murdered people, a vanished culture, and a dying language. …
Today’s One-Liner (#149)
What does a Chinese typewriter look like? –Wisława Szymborska, Nonrequired Reading: Prose Pieces, 44
Today’s One-Liner (#148)
In Poor Folk we have the first timid and hesitant expression of the great theme of theodicy, the questioning of the wisdom of the world created by God—thus a questioning of God himself—that will ultimately…
Look Within
I find [René Girard’s] ideas have enormous explanatory power not only for the world we see around us – but the world we find within us. People may question his reading of archaic societies or…
Today’s One-Liner (#147)
Patience attains the goal. –Saint Teresa of Ávila, quoted in Eknath Easwaran, God Makes the Rivers to Flow: Passages for Meditation, 1982
Good News
The meaning of order is there, but it is precisely its presence that determines the vestigial character of the treatment of it. The reason lies in the fact that the violence of the cultural order…