“He humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death—even death on a cross.
Therefore God also highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”
(Philippians 2:8-11)
A teacher at the school where my husband works said he shared my newsletter on writing by hand with his students to help them understand why they have to learn penmanship and turn in handwritten papers. I love that my writing might help them see the value and beauty in doing something difficult and countercultural.
Very good news! Not only is Abrego Garcia alive, Salvadoran authorities, reversing their initial refusal, allowed him to meet with Senator Van Hollen, who called Abrego Garcia’s wife to “pass along his message of love.” The police-state machine blinking in the harsh light of global scrutiny?
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According to some folks on social media, educated people don't believe in 'fairy tales'
The data says: Someone with a masters degree is just as likely to believe there is life after death as someone who didn't finish high school.
ReLiGiOn iS tHe oPiAtE oF tHe mAsSeS, amirite?
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“I have killed a holy man.”
Latest from my series on the Sorrowful Mysteries & The Saints.
Today’s piece ponders questions of scale, species and posthumanism in B.B.’s Carnegie -winning novel The Little Grey Men (1942)
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One of the most dashing heroes of World War II, and one of the finest English stylists of the last century to boot, was Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915–2011). Well before his association with the military, he decided in 1933, as an eighteen-year-old dropout, to walk across Europe, starting in Holland and ending in Constantinople. The books he…
You can’t solve mental/emotional illness without:
— Exerting your intellect and free will (Prudence)
— Turning outward towards other people (Justice)
— Voluntarily facing your fears (Courage)
— Restraining and redirecting your desires (Temperance)
Therapy can help.
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Reading the Odyssey again for the first time since high school (twenty years ago)!!
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Just finished this wonderful book. A great little read in the wake of the Second Vatican Council and an insightful exposé from a Father of Vatican II.
Happy Holy Thursday to all my brother deacons!
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And Pilate had Jesus scourged.
I'm currently writing a defense of the revelations of Christ to St. Faustina and the Divine Mercy devotion in response to the attacks from (some) radical traditionalists. Buckle up.
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Holy Thursday: when the Creator of the universe knelt with a basin and towel.
The God who shaped galaxies washed road dust from fishermen's feet.
"Do as I have done," He said—not about the miracles or the teaching, but about this:
The humbling. The serving. The loving made visible through touch.
True power isn't found in rising above others, but in kneeling before them, ready to serve.
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Maundy Thursday in the Book of Pericopes (c. 1140) and in the Ingeburg Psalter (c. 1210)
I spent most of my adult life wondering how Hitler happened, ie, how Germans allowed him to happen. Now I know- people don't react bc they aren't sure how far it will go or how bad it will get until they do know, then it's too late.
I’ve been thinking about this so much. When I first learned about the Holocaust in grade school, I couldn’t comprehend how people had let it happen. It seemed unfathomable—like a moral failure so vast it could never repeat. But while working on the campaign in 2024, I realized exactly how it happens.
It’s not some dramatic, singular moment where a society collectively decides to embrace evil. It’s a slow unraveling, a series of rationalizations, a society becoming desensitized one step at a time…
I so wish this was an answer to our problems. This is not a Trump problem. This is a power problem. The nation isn’t sliding red because of some great ideological awakening—it’s shifting because authoritarianism, once rooted, spreads like wildfire in a dry forest. It doesn’t need mass approval. It only requires inertia, exhaustion, the steady erosion of dissent. If this was a Trump problem, I would almost say it wasn’t a problem. Let’s assume Trump steps down in 2029 (As of today I say there is a 45% chance he does substack.com/home/post/…) All of the same problems, exposures, and failures of the guardrails still remain. I think actually Trump in many ways is the best-case scenario because he is so obviously intellectually incapable. Almost any future person to take the throne will be more competent, capable, and therefore much, much more dangerous.
