"God has not called me to be successful; He has called me to be faithful," Bl. Teresa of Calcutta. What do the following have in common: Liberal Catholic support for contraception, abortion, divorce and perversion Conservative Catholic support for Torture and Lying Liberal Catholic support for socialism and Liberation Theology Conservative Catholic support for folk heroes [...]
Here is a link to an interview with me conducted by St. Irenaeus Ministries in which I wax poetic about The Theater of the Word Incorporated and Catholic Culture.
One of the most startling things about the Christian Faith is that it is always greater than we are. We can't get it under our belts because we can't get Him under our belts. One of the problems I keep running into in others is a problem I keep running into in myself. When God becomes [...]
Here I am reading from a letter written in 1908 by George Bernard Shaw to G. K. Chesterton - and from another letter from Shaw to Chesterton's wife, Frances. Shaw is quite funny here. It's worth watching. My friend Mark Shea follows up with a few observations about Drama and the Faith. This is taken from [...]
I mostly write about religious subjects on this blog, so it's only fitting I should write about baseball. There's the old joke that baseball was first mentioned in the Bible - Genesis 1:1 - "In the big inning". But there really is a theology to our national passtime. It is the most transcendent of games. We [...]
Regular reader Ink has an interesting post on her blog "With Eager Feet" about something I said concerning Bad Monks and Actors. Ink writes ... *** Some time ago, I had the chance to meet Kevin, owner of Theatre of the Word, Inc. I now consider him a friend (and hope he considers me the same, [...]
Those of you in the Chicagoland area might be interested in this ... 10/30/2011 Institute on Religious Life Comedy Fundraiser Luncheon Please join us for the Institute on Religious Life’s Benefit Luncheon to be held Sunday, October 30, from 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m., at the Country Squire, 19133 W. Route 120 in Grayslake. The event [...]
"Don't take this so personally," my wife Karen always tells me. And of course she's right. In the past, when employees would become Vampires or Aliens it used to really bug me. How could they do this to me when I trusted them and gave them opportunities to help us and do good work? I would [...]
What does Safe Sex have in common with Bad Catholic Art? What does Squeamishness have to do with Bad Catholic Worship? Why is truth stranger than fiction? That last one at least we know. "Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction," G. K. Chesterton points out, "for we have made fiction to suit [...]
At the Rochester Chesterton Conference, left to right: Kevin O'Brien, Dale Ahlquist, Joseph Pearce, Tom Martin. One way to transform the culture is to get men drinking and smoking again. "Transforming the Culture" was the theme of this year's Chesterton Conference in Rochester, New York, which 150 eager Chestertonians attended this past weekend. It was an [...]
