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by bcadmin | Aug 12, 2022 | Eureka moment, Inspiration, News, Twenty Something | 0 |
During his down time at work, a Minnesota surgeon often browses the New Yorker in the hospital library. One day he spotted its famed cartoon caption contest — a caption-less cartoon that calls on readers to submit captions and then vote on their favorites, to be published in the following issue of the magazine.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 30, 2020 | Catholicism 101, Featured, Inspiration, News | 0 |
A man fell victim to robbers as he went down from Jerusalem to Jericho. They stripped and beat him and went off leaving him half-dead. A priest happened to be going down that road, but when he saw him, he […]
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 25, 2020 | Featured, Inspiration, News, Spiritual Warfare | 0 |
Since its publication in 2017, many of my Catholic friends have criticized Rod Dreher’s Benedict Option: “It’s too pessimistic. Christians shouldn’t run for the hills. Besides, the culture isn’t in decline. We just elected a pro-life president.” These were some […]
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 23, 2020 | Featured, Inspiration, News, The Church | 0 |
“The Catholic Church is an institution I am bound to hold divine — but for unbelievers a proof of its divinity might be found in the fact that no merely human institution conducted with such knavish imbecility would have lasted […]
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 8, 2020 | Featured, Inspiration, News, Spiritual Warfare | 0 |
In the past year, I’ve made some surprising decisions. My wife and I decided to have our daughter born at home. More recently, I have been reorganizing my life around the carnivore diet, eating only animal products. Each of these […]
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 8, 2020 | Featured, Inspiration, News, Prayer, The Papacy | 0 |
I have developed an affection for a verse in Psalm 16: Propter verba labiorum tuorum ego custodivi vias duras, “On account of the words of Thy lips, I have kept the arduous paths” (Ps. 16:4). King David, to whom these […]
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“Thus, a good man, though a slave, is free; but a wicked man, though a king, is a slave. For he serves, not one man alone, but what is worse, as many masters as he has vices.” —Saint Augustine of […]
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 28, 2020 | Discernment, Featured, Inspiration, News, Prayer & Spirituality, Sophia Excerpts, St. Ignatius of Loyola | 0 |
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope. — Romans 15:13 St. Ignatius of Loyola was a bad man before his conversion. It is said of him that he probably had broken every commandment by […]
by bcadmin | Feb 17, 2020 | Featured, Inspiration, News, Prayer, The Last Things | 0 |
It all started with a text from my sister. I had just gotten off work and walked out to my car. There, waiting on my phone, was the news that my mom hadn’t shown up for work that morning, that […]
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Last week I spoke of my attachment to Prime, one of the “little hours” of the Divine Office, and why Catholics today should consider taking it up as the backbone of their morning prayer. Today I turn to the Roman Martyrology. […]
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