The Habit of Being – The Letters of Flannery O’Connor, Selected and Edited by Sally Fitzgerald. Flannery O’Connor was a fascinating, complex woman. She wrote some of the best fiction ever produced by an American, and couldn’t spell worth a…
Category: Faith
Random ramblings: politics and faith. “Political science” is a troublesome term. Can politics be reduced to a science? Scientific knowledge, as we have been reminded of lately in the healthcare field especially, has its limits. Science does not and cannot…
BOOK REVIEW The Word on Fire Vatican II Collection: Constitutions Forward by Bishop Robert Barron, with commentary by postconciliar popes. I must say this is one of the most depressing books I have ever read. First a few words about…
Today I was listening to a recent Bishop Barron Word on Fire podcast. He was talking about St. Thomas Aquinas, one of his favorite topics. He was explaining Thomas’s argument that God created everything out of love; that creation was…
In Pensées, Blaise Pascal gives us this timeless insight: “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” We do not like to be alone with our thoughts. We do not like to reflect…