Here is the article about our new church in Greenville, South Carolina in London's Catholic Herald Why build a Romanesque church in the 21st century in America’s Bible Belt? The answer is simple: “Because it looks like a Catholic church.” The Southern US is mission territory for Catholics, and our people wanted their new church to [...]
Read Old Books One of the most troubling things about American Catholics is their tendency to go off the deep end. Conservative Catholics who are upset about the condition of the church and think Pope Francis is evil incarnate seem to be proliferating. David Mills writes about the increasing tendency here. “Here’s a suggestion [...]
King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn You've heard about Kim Davis the ordinary government clerk who stood up for what she believed in the face of powerful opposition. Maybe you have not heard about Elizabeth Barton. She was a nun in sixteenth century England who stood up to Henry VIII when he planned to [...]
Today's post over at The Suburban Hermit explains how the three Benedictine vows are interwoven and interdependent like a three stranded rope. The Benedictine monk or nun takes vows of Stability, Obedience and Conversion of Life. There is much that can be learned from the three vows not only for the life of the professed religious, but for [...]
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Have you seen my new blog The Suburban Hermit? It fosters monastic spirituality and is meant to inspire with all that is beautiful good and true. There are no ads. There are very few broken posts with "Continue Reading". There are lots of beautiful pictures and inspiring thoughts. Here is what you will find on The [...]
Dr Taylor Marshall Taylor Marshall's work is highlighted here in my latest article for Aleteia. My friend and fellow former Anglican priest is doing fantastic work for the church Ten years ago Taylor Marshall resigned from his ministry as an Episcopalian priest. He was a young married man with no idea what God wanted [...]
Over at The Suburban Hermit is a post on the vow of obedience. In the present world the suggestion of obedience is met with incomprehension. That one should submit one’s entire will to another individual is not only a social error, but an anti-social horror. Obedience is a blasphemy in a world of individual freedom, and [...]
My latest blog post for National Catholic Register wonders if there is a connection between architecture, prayer and priests. I know a young priest who was brought up as a Baptist. He went into a beautiful old Catholic Church during the liturgy. This was a classic neo-Gothic church with stained glass windows and a beautiful liturgy. [...]
Papyrus in the Rylands Library, Manchester UK One of the things that maddens and amuses me about Protestants is something called "primitivism". I've written about it here. "Primitivism" is the ambition to return the church to the simplest form as it was in the "early church". The little fundamentalist church in which I grew [...]