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Old Monk on Criticism

How do you expect to grow up in Christ if you hate and fear Criticism?

Why Are We So Negative?

Here’s a secret. When I am thinking of what I should blog about I sometimes have in the back of my mind the Google Analytics page for my blog. This page lets me know whether my blog hits are up or down. I like to keep the blog hits as high as possible, and like [Read More...]

New OLR Church

  During my recent visit to England I had a chance to stop by one of my favorite Anglican churches: St Barnabas in the Jericho district of Oxford. I took lots of photos for our architect. There are many similarities in architecture and design. Today we had a sizable and very generous donation to our [Read More...]

Boat Altar?

If you caught the corny boat-altar on which Pope Francis celebrated Mass–here’s one for you which goes one better. It is called the Galilean pulpit and it is in the church of St Leonard’s on Sea in East Sussex in England. This unusual piece of church furniture was commissioned by the Anglican vicar from a [Read More...]

The Problem of the Palace and the Stable

Catholics with taste for finer things have questioned the use of wild tie-dye looking vestments at Pope Francis’ Mass at Lampedusa. They also don’t like the corny boat-altar. It left me cringing too, but I guess we have to put up with this sort of thing and remember the context and who, what, where and [Read More...]

From the Heart

Dear readers. I realize that I have been blogging now for nearly five years. I began the blog because it seemed an opportunity to publish my thoughts which would otherwise not find a readership. I had no idea that the blog would eventually reach such a wide number of people throughout the world. During these [Read More...]

Newman and Littlemore

I have been in England for the past week. It was a week of mixed emotions. I traveled with my older brother to visit our sister who is very ill with cancer. While there we also visited Oxford and I was able to share with my brother some of my favorite nooks and crannies of [Read More...]

Caitlin Goes to Camp

From the Archives: Caitlin O’Rourke goes to camp.

Why I’m Scared

I haven’t been blogging for a while, and I wonder why. One of the reasons is simple: I have had some personal and family issues to deal with. They have occupied my mind and my time. I’ve also been working hard to finish Slubgrip Instructs – the sequel to The Gargoyle Code . But today I realize that there [...]

Mercy or Tolerance?

In reading the Divine Office this morning I am struck again at how often the psalms mention mercy. The mercy of God showers through not just the psalms but the Scriptures. We so often think of mercy in a legalistic way–that it simply means God will let us off the hook. In fact, Bl. Pope [...]