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My first post on the story of Mother Teresa’s decades-long struggle with spiritual darkness struck some as “dismissive,” and for that I apologize. That particular reaction was against the press coverage – not the Time article, but the subsequent filtering that I just knew would be picked up as a shocking new revelation and used by…

….because I’m just that kind of person. AKA, a bad one. (Click for bigger screenshot.) (Click here for the list. Changes hourly or something.)

Catholic Spotlight is a series of podcasts sponsored by the Catholic Company. They’re sponsoring a giveaway of 5 signed copies of my newest book Prove It: You. Go here to read more about it and enter. The book is about living the Christian life, so to say it’s about “morality” doesn’t quite get it. I…

I have a longer post in mind, which I am going to try to work on bit by bit – on the reactions of the US bishops to the Motu Proprio – but as you can figure out, that’s a big job. But for now, two interesting bits: Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Birmingham , gave…

There are many ways to evangelize and catechize, many elements of both. One of the problems, both past and present, in figuring out how to do both of these things is the temptation to push everyone through a narrow gate -but the wrong kind of narrow gate. The gate that presumes all people are the…

Here: Creighton University and author Anne Lamott have mutually agreed upon cancellation of her public lecture on September 19, 2007.   After careful review of Ms. Lamott’s most recent writings (which postdated her contract agreement), we have concluded that key points are in opposition to Catholic teaching which, in our judgment, makes her an inappropriate…

A quick evaluation of new things: 1) Gmail – good. The layout of the mailbox, in which your responses to emails are grouped with the original emails, makes a lot of sense. I’ve not explored it much beyond that, but it seems better than Yahoo by leaps and bounds. 2) WordPress. There are some things…

I mean, er, Your Holiness. And studying the top Christian sellers on Amazon always interests me in a compare and contrast kind of way.

St. Monica…ora pro nobis! St. Monica links from around: Fr. Z on her tomb in Rome Mike Aquilina has many links The Pope, at last year’s Angelus on 8/27: Monica, who was born into a Christian family at Tagaste, today Souk-Aharàs in Algeria, lived her mission as a wife and mother in an exemplary way,…

1.   If you knew the Marlins were playing the Reds, you’d be able to better guess where we were. 2    The best part of the Cincinnati Zoo is the Nocturnal House, without question, with the Insect House coming in a very close second. Although not all of us would have rated the latter as highly as I…
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