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Articles by Jim Graves

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Jim Graves is a Catholic writer living in Newport Beach, California.
Interview

California’s Norbertine Canonesses celebrate 20 years in the mountains

November 3, 2017 Jim Graves 3

The Bethlehem Priory of St. Joseph in Tehachapi offers a life of prayer and holy austerity, for the cloistered sisters who live there and for […]

Interview

The contemplative nuns who live “at the heart” of the Church

October 20, 2017 Jim Graves 3

The Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration are living a secluded monastic life in the middle of the Arizona desert. […]

Features

A Conversation with a Traditional Catholic

September 26, 2017 Jim Graves 15

“After our first Traditional Latin Mass,” says Matthew Arnold, author of Confessions of a Traditional Catholic, “I asked Betty, a cradle Catholic, her opinion.  She […]

Interview

A “tough guy” priest, in the gulag and beyond

September 17, 2017 Jim Graves 7

Father Walter Ciszek is known for his courage while imprisoned in the Soviet Union. But his spiritual writings show him to be “a saint of […]

Interview

Sharing the love of Christ in the East Bay Area

August 9, 2017 Jim Graves 5

Bishop of Oakland Michael Barber, SJ, 63, was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, where his father, an insurance agent, was on temporary assignment. He is the oldest of three sons, another of whom would go on […]

The Dispatch

A close friend remembers Servant of God Cora Evans

July 27, 2017 Jim Graves 16

Darryl Hickman, 86, was a successful child actor in the 1930s and 40s, working alongside many prominent actors in the Golden Age of Hollywood. He went on to become a successful television executive, producer, writer, and […]

Interview

Former Anglican bishop finds a home in the Catholic Church

July 23, 2017 Jim Graves 17

Monsignor Keith Newton, 65, is the ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, headquartered in London, England. The ordinariate was established in 2011 by Pope Benedict XVI; its purpose is to reunite Anglicans with Rome while preserving […]

Interview

Bishop Paprocki responds to controversy, criticisms over decree on same-sex “marriage”

June 28, 2017 Jim Graves 91

On June 12, Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois issued a decree regarding same-sex “marriage” (SSM) and “related pastoral issues”.  In it, he reaffirmed traditional Catholic teaching that marriage can only be “a covenant between one man […]

Books

Why the label “gay” impoverishes and harms our view of the human person

June 13, 2017 Jim Graves 9

Daniel Mattson is a writer, speaker, and professional musician whose new book Why I Don’t Call Myself Gay: How I Reclaimed My Sexual Reality and Found Peace (Ignatius Press), is described as a “frank memoir” […]

Interview

The 400-year-old Marian apparition that is particularly relevant today

June 7, 2017 Jim Graves 19

Southern California apologist Matthew Arnold, author and founder of the Catholic apologetics organization Pro Multis Media, has placed his apostolate under the patronage of Our Lady of Good Success, a little-known apparition of Mary to […]

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