“Most dads accept that part of the job
is a willingness to be the unfashionable one.”
~ William McGurn
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The Becket Moment: Fatherhood Pure & Simple
18 JunOf Creeds, Conversion, and Cribbing at Mass
11 Jun
“I’m not asked on a Sunday morning,
‘As of 9:20, what do you believe?’”
~ Jaroslav Pelikan
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A French Saint for Memorial Day
30 May
“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.”
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
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My Finest Hour in New York
24 May
“Let me see new ones every day! let me hold new ones by the hand every day! Give me such shows! give me the streets of Manhattan!”
~ Walt Whitman
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Of Witches, Walburga, and Welcoming Spring
23 May
“We must not be ashamed of the mythical radiance resting on our theology.”
~ C.S. Lewis
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The Bishop Next Door
11 May
“Candidates for the episcopate…should be worthy priests, respected and loved by the faithful, models of life in the faith.”
~ Pope Benedict XVI
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Of ‘Zen,’ Gumption, and Conversion
9 May
“A person filled with gumption doesn’t sit around dissipating and stewing about things. He’s at the front of the train of his own awareness, watching to see what’s up the track and meeting it when it comes.”
~ Robert Pirsig
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