“Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned”

Lenten psalms are powerful prayers. Tom Quiner, composer of THE FIRE AND THE MERCY, The Pentecost Musical, has set over 100 psalms to music, including all of the psalms included in the Catholic lectionary for this Lenten cycle. This blog will post his commentaries on each of these psalms throughout Lent.

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“A Closet Capitalist Confesses”

By Tom Quiner Michael Novak died this week. He was a noted Catholic intellectual who evolved from a liberal to a conservative, even though he was a lifelong Democrat, with an especially marked conversion to the merits of capitalism. Regarding socialism, he wrote that it is: “the residue of Judeo-Christian faith, without religion. It is…

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