Tag: Church

Poetry in Church – The Catholic Thing

Augustine admits in Confessions that when he was young, he did not like the Scriptures; he found the language ugly and uninspiring. He preferred Cicero and Virgil. Worse yet, some things in the Scriptures caused him to think Christianity was…

The Church Is Not For Burning

When Notre Dame de Paris almost burned down in 2019, owing to a fire started (accidentally?) by workmen, the world was stunned by the near loss of one of the West’s iconic monuments – and a religious landmark at that. But churches around the…

What Church Is Really About

Ran into an interesting article just this morning, “Americans rank clergy at record low in honesty and ethics ratings: Gallup.”  The poll cited does not delve much into the reasons, but it does note that the same is true for most institutions…