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Here is small video of sculptor Andrew Wilson Smith who is currently working at Clear Creek monastery. I enjoyed seeing him work and the hints we got of the process by which he actually works. I also enjoyed the views…

Readers may remember my writing about a small group of us making the commitment to sing Vespers and Compline at the Veterans hospital in Manchester, NH. We have been singing there fortnightly now since September last year. One of the…

In these three readings I see that there is something in common: it is movement. In the first reading, movement is the journey [itself]; in the second reading, movement is in the up-building of the Church. In the third, in…

On the third day of Christmas we celebrate the feast day of St John The Evangelist, Saint John the Divine, one third of the Triumvirate along with Peter and James, one of the Boanerges (sons of thunder), traditionally represented in…

Q&A – Incipient Autumn Edition

by Daria Sockey September 5, 2012

Welcome, new…

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The New Media Signs of the Times

by Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Ph.D. September 1, 2012

Jesus once quipped that the spiritual leaders of his day were very good at forecasting the weather, but very bad at reading the signs of the times (Mat 16:3).
As we approach the 50th anniversary of Vatican II, let’s remember…

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Down in Jungle Land

by Harold Fickett March 22, 2012

Dan McInerny’s insightful post on Bruce Springsteen inspired the following reflections on my part.
One of the underlying phenomena of the 60s was the presumption, on the part of the WWII generation, that the rites of passage they had experienced…

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Is Jesus Meeting Your Expectations?

by Marge Fenelon December 19, 2011

This morning began as any normally abnormal one around the Fenelon Clan abode – with me taking my handful of horse-pill vitamins, one agonizing swallow at a time. They say you can’t buy health in a bottle. Maybe so. But…

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NFL QB Preaches with Actions

by Yeshua Catholic International Leadership Institute December 16, 2011

As the NFL season moves quickly toward its climax, two quarterbacks find themselves in especially bright spotlights for different reasons.
Tim Tebow, who began the year on the Denver Broncos’ bench, has drawn intense media attention from his college championship…

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A. N. Wilson Returns to the Faith

by Charles Colson May 6, 2009

Two decades ago, A. N. Wilson wrote a critically acclaimed biography of C.S. Lewis. This and some other of his writings led some Christians to hope that Wilson might become what Alan Jacobs once called “that figure for whom so…

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