The Reliquary of Saint Mary Magdalene is currently on tour in the Southeast. In other words, the container which holds the relic of a piece of Mary Magdalene’s tibia (leg bone) is on a journey through many parishes in our region until late November. Discovering this has intensified my thought process about Catholic body parts. [...]
October 28, 2009
In his book An American Conversion, friend of the Chicks Deal Hudson tells a story about visiting Carmelite nuns in a monastery. He used the phrase “smacked in the face by holiness” to describe his experience. The phrase really struck me as I, too, could relate. I was also smacked in the face by holiness. [...]
October 26, 2009
One thing you learn real quickly when you become Catholic is that there are many, many folks who are serious about engaging our culture in the debate over moral virtue. While this is not exclusive to Catholic Christians, the Church has been a consistent leader on defending human life and dignity, from the point of [...]
October 23, 2009
Finishing up the series Epic….. Renaissance popes, Martin Luther, the origin of the word Protestant, Protestant revolt, seeds of anti-semitism, more heresy, Council of Trent, Catholic reformation, mystics, missionaries, St. Ignatius and the Spiritual Exercises, Society of Jesus, St. Francis de Sales and early apologetics, the first catechism, evangelization and the New World, establishment [...]
October 19, 2009
I’m not much of a drinker. Never have been. It’s not that I am opposed to drinking- I just really never have liked the taste of alcohol or the way it makes me feel the next day. Eating, however, is an entirely different matter. I grew up loving to eat, and I was hungry a [...]
October 14, 2009
Sometime when you’re at home getting dinner ready- snapping the beans, peeling the potatoes, or pulling out the Whole Foods dinner combo, see if your local cable channel carries EWTN, the Eternal Word Television Network. It is Catholic programming 24/7, and you can learn so much about the history of the Church, Church teaching, prayer, [...]
October 13, 2009
On my journey into the church I became acquainted with many new friends (the saints). Some of these saints are officially declared by the Church and some are “unofficial” but have led exemplary lives and have incredible experience and wisdom to offer pilgrims in our daily Christian walk. As we approach All Saints Day, I [...]
October 6, 2009
FOC (Friend of the Chicks) Deal Hudson of InsideCatholic.com has published a wonderful article on a new initiative from an OB/GYN doctor who is taking seriously the call to promote a “culture of life”- a call that Catholics and evangelicals are tackling head on. If you are wondering what you can do to participate, read [...]
October 5, 2009
I keep forgetting that as a Catholic Christian, I now am a member of a parish, which is part of a diocese, which is part of a larger territory, which is part of a continent, which is part of the universal (catholic) Church. So, when it was announced that Luis Rafael Zarama would be ordained [...]
October 1, 2009
Continuing with the series Epic…… Inquisitors and inquisitions, the unity of the faith, popes and anti-popes, 3 men simultaneously claiming to be pope, St. Catherine of Siena, Avignon, Wycliffe and seeds of protest, the final fall of Constantinople, St. Joan of Arc, conversos, the Spanish Inquisition, tension between Dominicans and Franciscans, the original bonfire of [...]
November 3, 2009
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