Today we continue our regular series here at The Thin Veil called “Learning from the Saints”. Our guide is saint-expert Bert Ghezzi, a dear friend of mine and the author of numerous books including Voices of the Saints, Saints at Heart, and Adventures In Daily Prayer. His newest book is Discover Christ: Developing a Personal Relationship …
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Today marks the feast the vigil feast of St. Thomas More and St. John Fisher, and also launches two weeks of intense prayer and action for religious liberty. This ‘Fortnight for Freedom‘ is a response to the egregious and unprecedented threats we’ve seen to this first, most fundamental liberty. What is your parish …
Today Matthew Warner (Flocknote), Josh Simmons (eCatholic), and I are delivering a day-long master camp at the 2012 Catholic Media Conference. Our camp is titled, “The Digital Church: A One-Day Guide to New Media.” The whole Conference is off to a great start. Follow all the action live through the #CMC12 hashtag. Also, check out this …
True Freedom: On Protecting Human Dignity and Religious Freedom Cardinal Timothy Dolan It’s easy to take religious freedom for granted. It’s enshrined in our Constitution and praised by the Church, and most of us have grown up without questioning it. However when this liberty is threatened, when it’s not respected as a fundamental right, we’re …
Mark Shea likes to describe blogger Leah Libresco as “my favorite atheist,” and I’m with him. Leah is a fresh respite from the angry, fundamentalist, rhetoric-laced New Atheists like Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the late Christopher Hitchens. In contrast to them, Leah is calm and charitable. She’s intimidatingly bright and extremely well-read. And she’s not …
