Category: Catholicism

Today’s One-Liner (#292)

The four cardinal natural virtues are fertilizer for the spiritual soil in which the three theological virtues are to grow.  –Peter Kreeft, Practical Theology: Spiritual Direction from Saint Thomas Aquinas, 113

First Things First

Let us look at our own shortcomings and leave other people’s alone; for those who live carefully ordered lives are apt to be shocked at everything and we might well learn very important lessons from…

What Makes for Peace

Do not think yourself better than others lest, perhaps, you be accounted worse before God Who knows what is in man. Do not take pride in your good deeds, for God’s judgments differ from those…

Today’s One-Liner (#288)

A spiritual man quickly recollects himself because he has never wasted his attention upon externals. –Thomas à  Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, translated by Aloysius Croft and Harold Bolton

Catholic Jack

As Kerouac aged, he reclaimed the Catholic identity he had inherited from his devout parents, although to the reader, the influence was often muffled under the Benzedrine and booze-fueled bacchanalia of his youth, especially when…

Calcutta Is Everywhere

You will find Calcutta all over the world if you have eyes to see. The streets of Calcutta lead to every man’s door. I know you may want to make trip to Calcutta, but it…

Right Focus

You will never be devout of heart unless you are thus silent about the affairs of others and pay particular attention to yourself. If you attend wholly to God and yourself, you will be little…

Today’s One-Liner (#284)

With this book, he came out of the intellectually unfashionable Christian closet. –Cynthia L. Haven on René Girard’s book, Things Hidden since the Foundation of the World, in her Evolution of Desire: A Life of…