So You Think the Catholic Church Isn’t Doing Anything in the World…
Though this was never my impression, some I’ve encountered may have been thinking that there’s not much connecting going on between the Catholic Church and…
missionaries
There is a story, which is fairly well known, about when the missionaries came to Africa. They had the Bible and we, the natives, had the land. They said “Let us pray,” and we dutifully shut our eyes. When we opened them, why, they now had the land and we had the Bible. — Desmond Tutu
Today, give away something that you would miss.
Who is Our Lady of Guadalupe?
The feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe celebrates an appearance of the Virgin Mary at Tepayac, a hill northwest of Mexico City. For evidence we…
The Man and the Myth
How much of what we do on St. Patrick’s Day is actually associated with the man St. Patrick? Turns out very little, actually. Green beer?…
