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Let’s contemplate contemplation

Imagining a Better World: Art and Wartime

AI tries to ruin the "Sunday Drive"

“It’s Sunday! You should be in church!”

US Army Chaplain Msgr. Edward Vattmann

Dorothy Day

"Edge of Belief"

Lost Souls Cemetery

Vulgarity in Literature

Lamy of Santa Fe

The Steepest Public Street

A sad anniversary

Essay in Crisis Magazine

"gossip with footnotes"

“John Adams Goes to Catholic Mass”

1942 College Writing Prompts

"The American bishop who flew too close to the sun"

Al Attles (1936-2024)

Between Vanderbilt and Verdi

Chaplain at Bethesda 1963

The Oxford Comma Debate

Little-known Thomas Merton Story

Tomorrow on Sacred Heart Radio

It's Hip to be Square

Merton on Faulkner

For God and Our Country

Peter Maurin

Thinking on paper

Dante, flattery, and flatterers

"... seduced by the power of the obscure footnote."

Battlefield Chaplain: Korea circa 1952

“Recommended Merton Readings”

Sarah Bernhardt: master of the “come-back”

The Saint of Auschwitz

The pope on literature

Donuts and dry raiders

“Be Thou My Vision”

Frank Zappa's Crinkled Shoes

Losing a great American art form

“Pastor Thrown Through Window”

A recent Broderick review

An earthly expression of Heaven

Help Preserve the Past

Independence Day: Charles Carroll on Liberty

Virgil Writing his Epitaph

AM - artificial memory

Heroic self-sacrifice of six nuns

Kerouac, on the field …

Four Heroic Chaplains

Beauty. What is it?

Meet Edward Vattmann

More Dion, please

Meet Kerouac’s “Miss Dinneen”

A Window into Another Time

Lost at Sea

From Lab Coat to Clerics

Memorial Day 1958

A Novel Day

“Smallest Church in USA"

Sister M. Fides

Who Invented Baseball?

Moving a College Library

John Conoley, soldier, playwright, priest, victim of the Klan

Jack Kerouac's Creedal Moment

The "Cemetery Episode"

The Wanderer

First Parachuting Marine Chaplain

Father Whelan’s Bread

The Angel of AA

A Comet, A "Rebel," & Millerism

Timeless Teaching

Nathaniel Hawthorne's Daughter

Cathedral of the Air

Meet Fr. James Lloyd, 103

Stolen “Pope’s Stone”

Sister Evie is 109!

“Follow that Bishop!”

Bessie Springfield

More Bishop Broderick

Movies With Epiphanies

Sr. M. Paulinus, IHM

Heroic Nun(s)

Jack Kerouac

“I can’t stand this no longer!”

To Close a Monastery

How I met Tony Bennett

Heroic Fireman Vaults Communion Rail

Meet Dr. Norman Francis

The "Khaki-Christs"

Where is Dorothy Day

The Great Halifax Explosion

Andrew Carnegie

“The Amazing Father Lindesmith”

Ash Wednesday

The Other Sherman’s March

Amanda Davis

Who is she?

Frater M. Charles, OCSO

Maryland Jesuits

Harrison Butker

Meet Dr. Arthur Falls

Jack Kerouac

A Titanic Loss

Fort Mose

The Intellectual Age

We need trades professionals

What Merton Left Behind

John Ireland & The Civil War

"O America, guard well thyself!"

The kerfuffle over "ker-chuck"

The Province of Wisdom

Why read detective fiction?

The Place of the Catholic College

William Howard Taft

1937 Orange Bowl