My Aunt Betty Penn had a gift for teaching geography lessons and Biblical principles in ways that were never preachy or boring. She lived for more than 50 years in Seaside Park, New Jersey, in […]
We’ve been through toils and snares and are going through them still. Anyone who reads The Catholic Miscellany needs no accounting for why I say this. As addled a pursuit as it may be, I […]
For some of us, it’s hard to imagine why the Catholic Extension Society still considers us mission territory. If our experience of Catholicism in South Carolina focuses on Charleston, Columbia, the Greenville-Simpsonville area or Beaufort County, […]
On a day between Independence Day and Bastille Day this summer, the Beaufort Gazette and Island Packet ran a crossword puzzle that incorporated a daunting reminder. As the squares filled in, the puzzle’s theme emerged: […]
Leah, the unloved wife of the Biblical Jacob, and Ruth, the Moabite widow who followed her mother-in-law to Bethlehem, never had a clue that they would change history. Both numbered among their descendants David, Solomon, […]
Twin young men, juniors at the University of Wisconsin, recently gained attention as American Ninja Warriors. One made it up the zany, curved wall and hit the button. That accomplishment gained considerable notice because of their […]
It seems that the Holy Spirit is the most neglected member of the Blessed Trinity. So it should not surprise us that the third of the big three liturgical events of the year — Christmas, […]
It’s an old, old Christian maxim: “Lex orandi, lex credendi.” Literally, this saying means “the law of praying is the law of believing.” The gist of it, as rendered in the 5th century A.D. by […]
Frenzy seems to be characteristic of the American way of life. On one level, we rush to clock in at work on time, make it to church before the entrance procession has started, pick up groceries […]
A recent radio broadcast directed at single young adults recommended that listeners would do well to list 100 things for which they were grateful. I was driving at the time the challenge was issued, and, […]
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