Tag: Catholic

Heading for the Hills – The Catholic Thing

Recently, I read an author’s claim that “as Christians we can’t simply ignore politics.  We’re supposed to be leaven in the world.  So we can’t just retreat to the hills as St. Benedict did.” Actually, people nowadays do “retreat to the hills”…

Kids These Days – The Catholic Thing

I’m old enough now to be the sort of person who will occasionally observe, in all apparent earnestness, that being around young people makes me feel young at heart. This is a concession to the realities of middle age which I am loath to make,…