by: Sinclair Lewis Babbit was written in the 1920s by Sinclair Lewis who was a socialist. Normally, a...
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The Children’s Mass
There were a lot of babies and children at Mass. Their sounds filled the air. There was crying,...
Book Review: Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley This was another book on Joseph Pearce’s "100 Works of Literature Every Catholic Should...
Book Review: Confessions (F.J. Sheed translation)
by Saint Augustine of Hippo I’ve tried a couple of translations of this book over the years and I’m not sure if I’m just in a place where my mind was finally ready for this book or if it was Sheed’s translation, but I really clicked with this book. I’ve...
Book Review: Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls
by Dr. John Bergsma I got this for Christmas. It was as great as I hoped it would be.Doctor Bergsma is an Old Testament and Dead Sea Scrolls specialist and a teacher at Franciscan University. You can tell how fascinating and exciting he finds all this and his...
Book Review: Fearing the Stigmata
by Matt Weber It does seem that really young people and really old people have a good handle on their faith/life whereas those of us in the middle are still working on how to Catholic in our post-Christian culture.This book was about one man’s story of searching for...
From The Drama of Atheist Humanism
"Christians have not been promised that hey will always be in the majority."
A Lesson in Forgiveness and Humility and Letting Go of a 35 Year Long Grudge
It’s been 35 years and I have finally forgiven my 5th grade teacher. She held a writing competition near the end of the...
Book Review: Amos Fortune: Free Man
by Elizabeth Yates This book was excellent! One of my favorite things about the curriculum we use is the heavy use of books like this one that do a great job of bringing the historical context to life.So with this book, we were taken from a village in Africa where...
Saint Michael’s Lent is an Oasis of Atonement in the Liturgically Ordinary Desert
I've had an article published in Crisis Magazine. Please click the link and enjoy! https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/what-is-st-michaels-lent?fbclid=IwAR2rPIuDrL3augtSF20E2HVN0Czb_Qi2JPEN7dlVRpsxUb5DvRLckOxdEdI
Book Review:The Whipping Boy
by Sid Fleischman When buying books for the next school year, there was a Sid Fleischman book on the list that I purchased which must have been what made Ebay suggest “The Whipping Boy” to me. I forgot all about this book! It was one of my favorites as a kid.Happily,...
Saint Ignatius of Loyola
"The strategy of our adversary..."