Jun 26, 2012

The soul cannot know peace unless she prays for her enemies. The soul that has learned from God’s grace to pray, feels love and compassion for every created thing...

Jun 25, 2012

Jun 22, 2012

Ron Rosenbaum writes: It was a risk. Dedicating a book to someone I’d had had a five-minute phone conversation with three decades ago. Someone who, last I’d heard, had become a long-haul trucker and whom I’d given up trying to track down. James Schlesinger, secretary of defense, was so concerned about Nixon’s behavior that he sent word...

Jun 21, 2012

Paradox Bookstore in Wheeling, WV: Doing it right.

Jun 20, 2012

I should be so lucky!

Jun 16, 2012

Lillian Daniel reflects on the popular notion of being “spiritual but not religious.” Being privately spiritual but not religious just doesn’t interest me. There is nothing challenging about having deep thoughts all by oneself. What is interesting is doing this work in community, where other people might call you on stuff, or heaven forbid, disagree...

Jun 7, 2012

Can’t argue with that.

Jun 5, 2012

by Fr. Lawrence Farley Our present secular culture has fixed a great gap between people of my generation (i.e. those from the Jurassic period) and modern young people. And this gap is most easily observed when looking at our divergent understandings of fornication. Indeed, I remember once giving instruction to a young (chaste) catechumen, and casually mentioning...