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The Pope met today with alumni of the North American College in Rome. The college, called NAC by its students, has graduated hundreds in the past 150 years of its existence.  There is a reunion going on there now in … Continue reading →

Merry Christmas to each and every one of you!  I truly hope that the newborn child of Bethlehem may find a warm place in your hearts and lives to reside and grow to full maturity.  May God bless you abundantly. … Continue reading →

“What does evangelization mean if not to carry to all peoples, after first to the cities of Judah, the good news of the coming of Christ on earth?” –Eusebius of Caesarea, writing of John the Baptist and by extension to … Continue reading →

I sometimes wonder what it would be like at Christmas if: For every dollar spent on a Christmas present, a dollar would be spent on the poor. For every hour spent shopping, there would be an hour spent with the … Continue reading →

A Happy Thanksgiving to each of you on this day for family and friends. Let us be especially grateful for the many men and women of faith who have gone before us and given of themselves for our benefit. I … Continue reading →

I read an interesting article today in the Archdiocesan newspaper of New Orleans, the Clarion Herald. Dan Spencer, the founder and director of St. Joseph Center spoke on October 17 at St. Rita’s parish in New Orleans. He called pornography … Continue reading →

My apologies for the blog recently.  I have been having a lot of server and data corruption problems, so I haven’t been able to post, and some of my posts have been lost.  Luckily, I have a great computer fixer upper … Continue reading →

In the Old Testament we read, “No one can see God and live.’ (Exodus 33, 20)  It has always made me a little frightened to think about that.  God would kill me if I saw him.  That is how I … Continue reading →

One cannot be a true environmentalist and at the same time be pro-abortion, pro-euthanasia or  pro-death.  Said positively, real environmentalists are ardently pro-life, and vehemently anti-abortion, anti-death. This makes intuitive sense to me and helps me understand myself.  I have … Continue reading →

I am trying to grasp some of Benedict’s ideas in Caritas in Veritate. I am referring to paragraph 38 of the encyclical where he talks about the “fraternity of reciprocity” leading to “economic democracy.”  He identifies three logics: economic (contractual) logic, … Continue reading →

“While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.” — St. Francis of Assissi

“The name of Jesus is a standard in battle, that is to say, in the fight against evil.” — St. Bernardine of Sienna OFM

I have found a couple of websites you may want to browse.  The first is a blog that is realtively well known called Whispers in the Loggia (http://whispersintheloggia.blogspot.com)  The second is a site of a photographer who seems to do … Continue reading →