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…
Category: Catholicism
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…
Today’s One-Liner (#286)
To live by love is to go through life, sowing peace and joy in hearts. –Francis Broome, The Little Way for Every Day: Thoughts from Thérèse of Lisieux
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 (#285)
Complain as little as possible about the wrongs you suffer. –Saint Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life, trans. John K. Ryan
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…
Readiness Is All
Every time I re-read a book of Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, or Aquinas, I shake my head and wonder why I had not seen that before. The answer is most likely that I was not ready…
Today’s One-Liner (#282)
Every human being is free and is confronted with decisions on a daily and hourly basis. –Edith Stein,The Science of the Cross, 162
Outright Joy
For the “romance” of Clare and Francis has always exuded a warmth and a brightness that cannot be accounted for by the actual events. I believe the source of that fire is partly our own…
Today’s One-Liner (#281)
Within the Christian tradition more than a suspicion exists that the more intelligent we are, the more we consider ourselves to be “intellectuals,” the more difficult it is to save our souls. –James V. Schall,…