Posts Tagged ‘G. K. Chesterton’
“The signature of man”
What in the world was Luke thinking?
I refer to the writer of the third Gospel. In yesterday’s Gospel from the 24th chapter of Luke, one sentence leapt out at me:
“As he blessed them he parted from them and was taken up to heaven.”
Huh?
‘He was taken up to heaven?’
‘He parted from them?’
Good grief, Luke, this is big stuff! Doesn’t an event of this magnitude deserve a little punchier prose than you were able to muster? How ’bout something like this:
Read MoreA message to the PC police
Amen, Mr. Chesterton
Ordinary families produce extraordinary communities
The Valedictorian of Christianity
“He was one of the two or three giants; one of the two or three greatest men who ever lived; and I should never be surprised if he turned out, quite apart from sanctity, to be the greatest of all.”
Read MoreWhy I believe in Santa Clause
One year, my sister and I concocted a scheme to catch Santa when he brought gifts to our house. We tied a string to his glass of milk (next to the plate of cookies we left for him) and strung it all the way to the upstairs where we slept and put a bell on the end. When Santa took a gulp of milk, the bell would ring and we would run down the stairs and confront our friend…
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Ask Charlie Hebdo
Welcome home
The Pope comes to America.
What a perfect time to reflect on the power and majesty of God’s Church, the Catholic Church. Christ Jesus built His Church upon His Rock, that Rock being Peter, the first pope. Pope Francis is the 266th Roman pope in a line that can be traced directly back to Peter.
I read a letter in the Wall Street Journal this morning with that same old tired diatribe that pro lifers don’t care about the kid after he or she is born.
Of course, it is a total falsehood…
Read MoreOur hearts are restless
By Karen Quiner All of us have an empty spot in us that can only be filled by God. We spend our lives trying to fill it with money, things, food, booze, drugs, sex, power. As soon as we get the things that we think will fill the hole in our hearts, we are left…
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