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  • Fr. Hugh Thwaites and the Rosary

    The English priest, Fr. Hugh Thwaites, died in 2012 at the age of ninety-five. The headline of his obituary summarizes what Fr. Thwaites had come to believe after seeing the Church in decline following the Second Vatican Council, it reads: “Priest who said the future of the Church rested on the family rosary dies aged 95”  I am going to…

  • The Green Beard of a Giant

    “You shall know the truth, and it will make you odd.”  Flannery O’Connor “All the optimism of the age had been false and disheartening for this reason, that it had always been trying to prove that we fit in to the world. The Christian optimism is based on the fact that we do not fit in to the world. I had…