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April 2022

April 08, 2022

Meatless Fridays: A Conversation

A conversation about a common Catholic practice and the meaning behind it. Steve the Questioner:...

March 2022

March 21, 2022

Writing Right Now # 1: The Consecration and Transfiguration

There are so many and too many things to read and watch. The articles about...

March 13, 2022

Tweeting to the Choir: A Collection of Tweets

The diversity of thought within Catholic teaching, like variety within the strictures of sonnets, is...

November 2021

November 19, 2021

Dare We Have a Conversation About Hope?

Justin Thomas: I love when I find my thoughts are not original. It's actually comforting...

September 2021

September 10, 2021

BCCT Assigned to this Place and Time

Collecting Spiritual Quotes What follows is going to be relatively long, so those who do...

May 2021

May 30, 2021

God in his deepest mystery is not a solitude but a family,

Where One is Three Only as God can be Father, Son & Holy Ghost Is...

May 13, 2021

Ascension Day Lessons on Overcoming Writers Block

The day I'm writing this, my granddaughter has turned a 1/2 year old. As a...

November 2020

November 08, 2020

Papal Thought and the World Around It: Part 2

In the last article I talked about Papal Thought and the World around it. We...

November 07, 2020

Papal Thought and the World Around It: Part 1

1847 The Mexican–American War was being waged. Yerba Buena, California was renamed San Francisco. The...

October 2020

October 30, 2020

What Do Jesus and Dracula Have in Common?

Happy Halloween Fellow Readers “When it comes to fighting vampires and performing exorcisms, the Roman...

September 2020

September 22, 2020

Catholic Thought Since Vatican 2

The church is always changing and growing in the understanding of the deposit of faith...

September 17, 2020

Vatican 2 Information Resources

Today is the feast of St. Robert Bellarmine. He was a bishop who put into effect...

August 2020

August 27, 2020

12 Hot Catholic Issues (A Resource Guide)

I find it amazing that everyone has a different emotional makeup and disposition. Some people...

August 15, 2020

The Immaculate Connections

If you were an artist, would you allow someone to prepare your canvas with daubs?...

August 06, 2020

The Transfiguration of Writers Block

As I was laying down thinking about what pithy thing to say about the transfiguration...

August 03, 2020

Harry Potter and the Beatific Vision

Nine months before you were born your parents participated in an activity that throw your...

May 2020

May 18, 2020

FAITH IN MY BRAIN

Here is a poem a little different than what you are probably used to, if...

May 12, 2020

When Redemptive Suffering Meets Real Life: Offer It Up

OH SUCH LOVE! How can I please my Love? For he has consumed my heart...