Much as I appreciate my freedom to exercise Catholic citizenship, I’ll be relieved to get past this election, bitter and noisy and chaotic as it is. I don’t think I’m the only one who feels that way. Whoever handles social media for my local Diocese brightened my Facebook feed the other day with a simpleContinue reading “Election Day and an appointment at the Cathedral”
Author Archives: Ellen Kolb
Writer, activist, Granite State walker.
Maritain on faith and the democratic ideal
“Faith in the dignity of the human personality, in brotherly love, in justice, and in the worth of the human soul, outweighing the whole material universe – faith, in a word, in the conception of man and his destiny which the gospel has deposited at the very center of human history – this faith isContinue reading “Maritain on faith and the democratic ideal”
Open Book: an anthology of remembrances
The first Wednesday of each month brings #OpenBook, a blog linkup co-hosted by My Scribbler’s Heart and CatholicMom.com with a roundup of what participating bloggers have been reading lately. Best reading of the past month for me: A Torch Kept Lit: Great Lives of the Twentieth Century, a collection of eulogies written by William F. Buckley, edited byContinue reading “Open Book: an anthology of remembrances”
Ellen Kolb 