“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. “  — Thomas Merton, who died on this date in 1968.   It was also on this date that he entered…

I got the impression that Patrick Kennedy wanted to put his clash with Bishop Tobin behind him and move on, but some commentators just won’t let it rest. The latest to add his two cents is Timothy Egan from the New York Times: In a terse exchange of letters, the bishop said it was “inappropriate”…

That would be the story of Christ and his church.  And it’s the story we’re trying to tell at New Evangelization Television (NET).   Yesterday, on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, we marked our one-year anniversary of “putting out into the deep”.  And this little video helps tell the tale.  (Warning: Your Humble Blogger…

That’s the opinion of the controversial Sr. Donna Quinn — who, you’ll recall, worked for some time as a volunteer escort at an abortion clinic.   From the Chicago Tribune: Despite a public reprimand from her religious order last month, Chicago’s pro-choice Roman Catholic nun, Sister Donna Quinn, is not backing down from her support of…

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