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Standing on My Head
“A scene is often most clearly seen when it is seen upside down.” G.K.Chesterton
Mrs Mullally and the Meaning of Ministry
In the wake of the controversial enthronement of Sarah Mullally as the first female Archbishop of Canterbury, conservative Catholics on social media bubbled over with indignation. When Pope Leo sent a letter of congratulations [...]
Frodo Baggins and St Therese
‘In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.’ Tolkien admitted that he wrote these words absentmindedly on the back of an exam paper he was marking. Such spontaneous inspiration suggests the [...]
Sin is Behovely
Julian of Norwich was an anchoress in the fourteenth century in the city of Norwich in England. An anchoress is a female hermit. Julian's anchorage was a small room around 15'X 30' attached to [...]
Seven Deadly Sins: Pride
The last of the seven deadly sins is pride--or perhaps I should say the FIRST of the deadly sins is pride because pride is at the root of all the others. We often misdiagnose [...]
Warts–The Biggest Problem for Converts
Scott Hahn's wife Kimberly was once asked what three things were the biggest obstacles to her conversion to Catholicism and she reportedly replied, "Mary, Mary and Mary." Other converts have said, "Once I got [...]
The German Bishops and the Snake Handlers
Living as we do in the Bible Belt--forsooth yea verily in the buckle of the Bible Belt--we are accustomed to various unusual Christian novelties. By "Christian novelties" I mean versions of Christianity that are novel. [...]
