Category History

The Oak Tree

There’s a great temptation to think that the goal of any and all true renewal in the Church should be to return to the exact life and practice of the early Church.   Even movements within the Catholic Church have…

Book Review: “An Introduction to the Prophets of Israel”

“An Introduction to the Prophets of Israel“, Richard Thomas Aquinas Murphy O.P., St. Paul Books & Media, Boston, 1996. 123 pages.         “In the Old Testament, the New lies concealed, in the New Testament, the Old lies…

A Visit to Yap

I was recently blessed with the opportunity to visit Yap, one of the four states of the Federated States of Micronesia.  In my search for “the true, the good, and the beautiful”, Yap is solidly in the “beautiful” category. Yap…