The sickness where one falls down

My very humble attempt to invite people to consider the Holy Father’s insights on the Christ Child in the UK Catholic Herald.
More from today’s General Audience on the same theme.

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The Babies Are Coming

Two weeks ago, we met some new friends in person for (mostly) the first time. One of them was a baby. We’ve spoken of them occasionally since then, but not constantly, and not really of the baby. Then out of the blue today, Michael made up a chant and started singing it in the car:
Winifred [...]

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The Catholicism Project

A new trailer from Fr. Robert Barron’s ongoing video project, set to be completed next fall.

Here’s the webpage for the project.
Fr. Barron was in Birmingham this week, appearing Wednesday night on Fr. Mitch Pacwa’s EWTN Live.  I met up with Fr. Barron and associates Nancy and Ashley (from Maximus) yesterday afternoon [...]

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Blessed be God

Is anyone else noticing a slight, tiny resurgence in post-Mass prayers?
Not the full-on Last Gospel/Leonine Prayers toolkit, necessarily, but…something?
When I go to daily Mass, it’s at the Cathedral, because it’s at noontime – the most convenient time for me.  The Divine Praises are always recited after Mass, and sometimes, depending on the priest, the St. [...]

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Can you give Alphonse a hand?

Volume 1!
Volume 2!
Kickstart volume 3!

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“Christ was Just Another D.P.”

This past Sunday, I gave a presentation on Flannery O’Connor to an adult education group in my parish.
(This article, which I wrote a decade ago (!) is my framework when I do something like this.)
(A few weeks ago, I began this intermittant series on Catholic writers that I’m doing by presenting on Walker Percy – [...]

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Vaya al Indianapolis!

An exhibition to see:
El Greco’s vision of the veil of Veronica hangs near a golden crown with 447 emeralds. Just a few steps away, a recumbent sculpture of the crucified Jesus Christ rests before its return to a Spanish hermitage in time for Holy Week.
“Sacred Spain: Art and Belief in the Spanish World” at the [...]

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