President Joe Biden recently attended the funeral of a childhood friend of his at his old parish of St. Paul’s in the Green Ridge section of Scranton. He came quietly, delivered a eulogy in the small neighborhood […]
The Halloween season seems to creep in earlier every year, heralded this September by a long-anticipated film from the once-visionary director, Tim Burton: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. To call this movie “long-anticipated” also refers to the fact that it’s […]
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris engaged in a presidential debate last Tuesday, and the result was as any American with one eye open might have predicted. Trump was mostly dour and angry, reactive and aggressive. […]
I rarely acquiesce to feed the Mouse maw—though I would say that my approach has more of cultural curiosity in it than an incense-pinch to the Magic Kingdom. All this to say (or to confess), […]
A centerpiece of the much-derided opening ceremonies at the Paris Olympics has rippled the pond of an all-too-common Catholic complacence. Catholics are sadly used to being led like lambs to the slaughter on the altar […]
If you haven’t read King Solomon’s Mines—written by Henry Rider Haggard in 1885—you can make this a summer to remember by reading it for the first time. There is nothing quite like King Solomon’s Mines, and […]
This past Saturday, October 28, at New Hampshire’s historic Bedford Village Inn, two significant public figures were honored by Thomas More College of the Liberal Arts: Raymond Flynn, who was mayor of Boston from 1984 […]
With June comes the Rainbow. You can’t miss it. In fact, you may not miss it. Despite how anyone feels about it, despite your religious views, despite your conservative affiliations, despite the tradition of sexual […]
The Ascension of Jesus Christ, related in the Gospels of Mark and Luke and referred to throughout the New Testament, can be taken as something of an awkward anecdote in the Catholic canon. “And when […]
As the first Christian pilgrimage, the Epiphany sounds the call to renew the pilgrim heart in all Catholics. And for many, that will mean preparing for the epiphanies—the apocalypses, the revelations—that can come suddenly to […]
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