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Old Monk on Fearing God

Novice: Should I fear God or Love God? Old Monk: You should fear His love.

The Growing Rage

Read here about how England is fast becoming a police state, and the violence faced by peaceful pro life demonstrators.

From the Combox

Here’s a comment from someone who doesn’t sign his name: Father, you should keep your political opinions to yourself. I’m sick to death of all the right wing political garbage coming from the church lately. Your blog is becoming more and more offensive everyday. If you don’t like President Obama, don’t vote for him. In [...]

St Benedict for Beginners

Do you like Old Monk? I am a Benedictine oblate and have benefited much in my spiritual growth through the wisdom of St Benedict. If you’d like to learn more, then why not  follow my series of short meditations on the Rule of St Benedict over at Integrated Catholic Life? This part seven of a long [...]

Behold the Lamb

At daily Mass there is more time to stop and pray; fewer concerns about external details and more opportunity to be silent. This morning in this Easter season there seemed to be something new to listen to. I strained to hear. There were words being spoken that were beyond words and the sense of mystery [...]

No More Camouflage Catholics

You’ve heard of Cafeteria Catholics and Coca Cola Catholics and Conservative Catholics and Cultural Catholics and Kennedy Catholics and not there’s Camouflage Catholics. Go here.

Go Trey Gowdy

Our congressman from South Carolina has Sebelius on the ropes. Go Trey Gowdy!

The Absurdity of Evil

An exorcist told me one of the most disturbing and maddening things about exorcism is that one can rarely diagnose the problem completely. “You see,” he said, “the devil is a liar and the father of lies. Once you have identified the demon you don’t know if you really have or not. The demon lurks [...]

My Medjugorje Story

So Mark (the Dark Lord Shea-uman) Shea is getting himself worked up into a delightful lather over there at his most illustrious and famous and much loved blog over his skepticism about Medjugorje. He shares that skepticism with a whole team of male, American Catholic bloggers who haven’t visited Medjugorje (and usually can’t spell it) A [...]

Chust for Nice

The interior of San Marco in Venice. Go here for a story of how my visit to San Marco helped bring me into the Catholic Church.