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The Death of the Imagination in Narnia

Here is my latest article for Imaginative Conservative website. It is on the subject of the destruction of imagination through the realism of fantasy movies. I was thrilled with how the sorcerers of modern technological had summoned up naiads and dryads, centaurs and minotaurs, dwarves, unicorns and every other marvelous and magical beast from Narnia. [Read More...]

The Ugliness of Mortal Sin

Sometimes a little phrase jumps off the page or into your ear from a passing conversation. The Holy Spirit takes that phrase and it becomes a launching pad for a meditation on the mystery of this world. The phrase I read in passing was “the ugliness of mortal sin”. I thought immediately of that scene [Read More...]

FaithWorks! 35

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The Divine Mercy on I-85

Did I say I was getting excited about the new church we are building at Our Lady of the Rosary Parish in Greenville, South Carolina? I’m getting really excited. Here’s why: When I first came to the parish my predecessor Fr Dac Tran said if I built the church we should build a shrine to the Divine [Read More...]

Fisking Cardinal Kaspar in America

America magazine has an interesting interview with Cardinal Kaspar here. I read it trying very hard to be open minded, but geesh, what kind of flaky stuff is this cardinal spouting? Here are some excerpts and my observations in red. Q. Some cardinals and bishops seem to be afraid of this possibility and reject it [Read More...]

Should We Forgive Bishop Conry?

Over the weekend Bishop Kieran Conry, the Bishop of Arundel and Brighton resigned in disgrace after admitting not one, but two affairs with women. One of the women was married with two children. Bishop Conry was part of what Damien Thompson calls “the magic circle.” This is the “inside circle” of mainstream, moderate or liberal [Read More...]

Hope in the Midst of Horror

Victor Frankl was an Austrian Jewish psychiatrist who survived Auschwitz where his wife, mother and brother all died. After the war he wrote what is now a classic, Man’s Search for Meaning which was based on his experiences. Out of the great horror of  the death camps he wrote: Our generation is realistic, for we have [Read More...]

The Rosary: Heaven Here and Now

I have never written about this before because it is so personal, but I would like to share what happened the first time I prayed the rosary. I was a young Anglican priest and I was just heading off to make a retreat at the Benedictine monastery of Our Lady of Quarr on the Isle [Read More...]

It Fitz

Jennifer Fitz blogs about our new church here.

Peter the Model Disciple

  Today at Arlington Diocese’s “Risk Jesus” Conference I’ll be telling my conversion story, and then pioneering an idea which may turn into a new book: Peter as the Model Disciple. I’ll only have time for four points, but there is more to it. The Question: Who Do You Say That I AM? That’s the [Read More...]