Posted inIn All Things

The Peaceable Kingdom

I have determined to spend the last week of Advent and the first week of Christmas meditating and reflecting on Edward Hicks rsquo The Peaceable Kingdom Hicks a Pennsylvania Quaker 1780-1849 was an autodidact as a painter although later in life he trained apprentices including the importan

Posted inIn All Things

Who Is Obsessed With Sex?

The Holy Father rsquo s Ecology of Man speech has garnered a great deal of attention because one sentence in a very long speech made reference to the ways in which human sexuality falls short of the Gospel ideals What rsquo s often expressed and understood with the term lsquo gender rsquo is

Posted inThe Good Word

Mark – conclusion of blogs

Mark s Gospel has been called The Gospel that tells of Jesus who announced the Kingdom of God Certainly the Gospel does tell that story It emphasizes at least for awhile the wondrous deeds of Jesus These are miracles that seem only possible if God does them indeed the conscious hist

Posted inIn All Things

Photos: Dulles funeral

Greg Shemitz a photojournalist just sent us this link to his photos available online on his website of Cardinal Dulles funeral nbsp Mr Shemitz was on assignment for Catholic News Service nbsp Among them are this one of Jesuit priests processing past the casket of Cardinal Dulles nbsp

Posted inIn All Things

More on the Warren Selection

Rick Warren crashed George and Ali Stephanopoulos rsquo s Christmas party last night Not in the flesh of course but as a topic of conversation Washington rsquo s glitterati could not help themselves With the nation in the throes of a full-fledged economic crisis and with American troops still f

Posted inCatholic Book Club

December Selection

An extraordinary publishing event 180 hand-colored photographs of the Holy Land taken by the Matson Photo Agency at the turn of the last century Ms Speelman rsquo s grandfather had commissioned the coloring of 1200 photographs on glass plates mdash a project so exacting we are told ldquo that

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