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November 2012

November 10, 2012

“The Man Who Would Be King of the Popes”

Found this classic SCTV satire on YouTube and had to share it. If you have...

November 08, 2012

New podcast!

Over at the Christopher Closeup blog, Tony Rossi has posted the podcast of the interview...

November 06, 2012

The canary in the coal mine

"[If] you watch any TV at all, spend any time on the Internet, or just...

November 05, 2012

Catholic man with homosexual inclination tells why “gay identity” philosophy is un-Christian

"The whole [Catholic] teaching about sexuality is rooted in the complementarity of the two sexes....

November 02, 2012

On All Souls Day, we remember that our loved ones are still with us …

... in the Eucharistic Christ. I wrote in My Peace I Give You: Catholic funeral...

November 01, 2012

Purchased at a price

On this All Saints Day, in honor of the late Barbara Curtis, I am republishing...

October 2012

October 30, 2012

Quote of the day

"The current God Debate does not seek to make its opponent laugh, but to make...

October 30, 2012

UPDATED: Please pray for Mommy Life blogger Barbara Curtis

UPDATE, 9:45 p.m.: Elizabeth Foss reports that Barbara has passed away. Barbara was a true...

October 29, 2012

Remembering the Source of our shelter

After my post the other day about Leonard Cohen, my friend William Doino, Jr., pointed...

October 27, 2012

He’s her fan: Leonard Cohen and St. Kateri

A Leonard Cohen fan blog revealed this week that the legendary singer-songwriter's home has images...

October 26, 2012

UPDATED: Prayer request

Please pray for my friend Deirdre McQuade, who fell seriously ill today at work and...

October 26, 2012

Barron, why so barren? Questions on a priest’s sterile definition of marital love

I just read Father Robert Barron's column "Saying No to Nietzche" and have a few...

October 24, 2012

“I no longer felt alone”: Angela Sealana reviews My Peace I Give You

Catholic new-media expert Angela Sealana, who blogs at Inspired Angela, confesses today that she used...

October 23, 2012

New John Paul II feast day prayer: it’s better in Latin

If you attended Mass yesterday for the newly instituted feast day for Blessed...

October 16, 2012

“I was afraid of her purity”: Discovering Mary’s purifying love

Today is traditionally the Feast of the Purity of the Blessed Virgin Mary...

October 14, 2012

Defining deviancy down: Andy Warhol refashioned as an “intentionally celibate” Catholic

My Patheos colleague Marc Barnes asserts on his Bad Catholic blog that Andy Warhol...

October 11, 2012

The candidate who defies his own conscience

Today, as the Church began its Year of Faith. a historic moment occurred when two...

October 10, 2012

A saint for the New Evangelization

Donald Cardinal Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington, D.C., in delivered a report yesterday at the Synod...

October 09, 2012

“The Journey Home” and other journeys

Just a note for readers interested in my faith journey or in my apostolate spreading the...

October 09, 2012

John Henry Newman: The Cross of Christ wounds us so as to heal

On this day that the Church honors Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman,...

October 07, 2012

Father Ed on the via negativa

One of my favorite quotations from one of my favorite apostles of spiritual healing: "There...

October 05, 2012

UPDATED: Sacred Heart speaks to atheist’s heart

It's a familiar tale in atheist circles: a child of fundamentalist Christian parents rebels against...

October 03, 2012

What is the one piece of turf I must conquer for Jesus?

It's my own soul. So says Father Daniel A. Lord, S.J. (1888-1955), in a passage...

October 02, 2012

Angels in the hospital room

On this day when the Church honors the Guardian Angels, I remember the first time...

October 01, 2012

Dorothy Day on St. Thérèse: “To her God was a consuming flame”

Today the Church celebrates St. Thérèse of Lisieux, the Carmelite nun fondly known as the...

September 2012

September 28, 2012

Entering into the “memories of God”

I wrote yesterday about how "I have come to believe that people who have suffered...

September 27, 2012

St. Vincent de Paul: Sufferings and trials “make us like Christ our Lord”

Today the Church celebrates St. Vincent de Paul (c. 1580-1660), one of the Church's greatest...

September 27, 2012

Enter Eden

Welcome! My name is Dawn Eden, and, after more than ten years blogging on and...