Mark your calendars! Mon Sep 27, 2007 9 - 11 pm (PST) in Karina’s Chat Room
Meet Maureen McQuerry the author of a YA fantasy, Wolfproof (Idylls Press, 2006) the first in the Wolfproof Trilogy), Relentless Light, a collection of poems that won the New Eden Chapbook Award, Student [...]

Tags: interviews, Karina Fabian, Maureen McQUerry, Wolfproof

The always deeply insightful papal retreat master, Fr. Cantalamessa, has written the best piece I’ve read on Mother Teresa’s “Dark Night of the Soul” as revealed in her newly published letters.
Here’s an excerpt, relevant to the world of Catholic letters:
The world of today knows a new category of people: the atheists in good faith, those [...]

Tags: atheism, Mother Teresa, spiritual darkness

As readers of this blog may know, Clan Murphy is united in its appreciation of tennis in general and Roger Federer in particular. Moreover, as the last two weeks of the US Open have worn on, those of us in the Clan who have read Donna Byrne’s The Secret and have enjoyed discussing its merits [...]

Tags: Federer, tennis, The Secret

The New York Times has an excellent editorial about the recently published letters of Mother Teresa. (There’s a nice mention of Bl. Flannery, too.) Here’s an excerpt:
To the extent people ever tried to project themselves into the mind of Mother Teresa, they might have pictured a Gothic vault washed in dazzling beams of saintly conviction. [...]

Tags: books, Mother Teresa, spiritual darkness