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Your Money or Your Life — On Camels and Needles

Here’s an excerpt from today’s gospel, and there is something there I had never noticed before: The Lord said to him, “Oh you Pharisees! Although you cleanse the outside of the cup and the dish, inside you are filled with plunder and evil. You fools! Did not the maker of the outside also make the [...]

Caitlin O’Rourke on the Infant of Prague

Guest blogger Caitlin O’Rourke is a member of St Bridget’s, Church, High Dudgeon, New Jersey. Caitlin is ten years old. See when Grandma died she had this very old Infant of Prague which she said I could have because she knew I liked it and nobody else wanted it and so after the funeral when [...]

Boox Boox and more Boox!

Has anybody else noticed that the world of publishing is going through a technological revolution as major as the invention of the printing press? It’s called ‘print on demand’. In the old days a publisher paid big money to pay editors and proof readers and typesetters and book designers. Then they paid big money to [...]

Abortion and Politics – The Plain Facts

When an election is around the corner people should take a deep breath and stop, look and listen and remember one important fact: that an election is around the corner. That is to say, errr, these people are politicians. They want to be in power. The way they get into power is to get enough [...]

Daily Homily for Year of Faith

Over at Catholic Online some of my fellow priests and I are contributing homilies on the day’s gospel. I’ve got Tuesdays every week, so here’s the first one on today’s gospel.

Faith Works! – 5

Here is the fifth edition of my free weekly newsletter FaithWorks! If you like it please share. If you would like to subscribe use the mini form in the right sidebar.

Daily Homilies for Year of Faith

Along with half a dozen other priests, for the Year of Faith I’ll be contributing a Daily Homily once a week on Catholic Online. My friend Fr. Bart Reynolds opens today with a homily on St Teresa of Avila here. If you want to follow the Daily Homily for the Year of Faith just go [...]

It’s A Girl in a Biretta!

I discovered this unusual image in El Salvador in the chapel where Archbishop Oscar Romero was murdered. It is, of course, Teresa of Avila–who wears the biretta as a sign of her erudition as a doctor of the church. Now that Therese of Lisieux is also a Doctor of the Church it would be interesting [...]

Teresa of Avila and the Infant of Prague

Did you know that the original Infant of Prague was owned by St Teresa of Avila? Here’s the story: In 1628 the small, 19″ wooden, wax coated statue was given by the Spanish princess Polyxena Lobkowicz to the Discalced Carmelites. The princess who was Spanish, had received the statue as a wedding gift in 1603 [...]

Lessons from C.S.Lewis

Jump over here for my latest article for Integrated Catholic Life. It’s about lessons in communicating the Catholic faith from C.S.Lewis.