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Standing on My Head
“A scene is often most clearly seen when it is seen upside down.” G.K.Chesterton
On Making a Good Confession
When I was a high school chaplain I used to explain to the kids that a sin was not just something that made you feel bad. Often I'd get folks in the confessional who [...]
A Pictorial Life of St Therese
Book Review by guest blogger Lisa Comerford As grace brings life to the soul, so pictures bring life to the story. Fr. Didier-Marie Golay’s Living on Love is a portfolio of the work of [...]
Why Conversions are Discouraged
Today's news is that the former Anglican Bishop of Rochester, Dr Michael Nazir Ali, has been received into full communion with the Catholic Church and the rumor is that he was discouraged from taking [...]
Is Impatience a Sin?
In the confessional I often hear folks confessing impatience. I must confess that I sometimes become impatient with impatience because I don't really think it is a sin. For something to be a sin [...]
Abuse? What Abuse?
The Catholic Church in France is reeling with a report that over the last sixty or seventy years tens of thousands have been abused by priests, nuns and religious. The response, of course, is [...]
Working with Your Guardian Angel
The Scriptures promise that God sends to each one of us a guardian angel. What is the guardian angels' role and what is our proper relationship to our angel? First we should reject false [...]
