Six Thanksgivings ago, I bookmarked a post by Jonah Goldberg at National Review Online. “This pope plays it right” is a meditation by a secular writer on his father, on Pope Benedict, Catholicism, and broadly-defined conservatism. Whether I agree or not with his interpretation of Church teaching, I respect his willingness to consider it. In doingContinue reading ““We need more rocks in the river”: a non-Catholic welcomes Pope Benedict”
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On St. Clement
The parish where I grew up was St. Clement’s. All I knew about the saint was that his name was mentioned in the Roman Canon, AKA the first Eucharistic Prayer – you know, the long one. Thus does a child process church history. I’ve since learned more about the people listed by name in thatContinue reading “On St. Clement”
“An ocean of mercy waiting for us”
The Year of Mercy is drawing to a close, leaving us the commission to keep it going in our respective ways. I just encountered the MercyStories series on the YouTube channel for the Knights of Columbus Supreme Council. I was drawn to “Poster Child of Divine Mercy: The Testimony of Fr. Donald Calloway, MIC” becauseContinue reading ““An ocean of mercy waiting for us””
Ellen Kolb 