Local author Rebecca W. Martin has debuted her first novel, “Love in the Eternal City” (Chrism Press), a Catholic romance that not only tells the love story between a Swiss Guard and an American expat, but also serves as Martin’s own love letter to the city of Rome.
With Paralympic Games closing in Paris Sept. 8, more than a monthlong Olympic adventure is over. But the spirit of the Games will resonate in the French Catholic Church for much longer — thanks to the disabled who participated in church initiatives with great enthusiasm.
Being a Catholic in the world of media doesn’t mean that we need to change our faith, but just to go deeper. “We have to know that we need God in order to be a media apostle.”
Human language is not capable of exhausting the deep mysteries of God. This is because no human mind can comprehend those mysteries in their fullness. As St. John Henry Newman famously put the matter in his great work, “An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine,” there is “no one aspect deep enough to exhaust the contents of a real idea, no one term or proposition which will serve to define it; though of course one representation of it is more just and exact than another.”
Catholic writer Ellen Gable Hrkach’s latest book “Life From the Bottom Shelf” (Full Quiver Publishing) is a bit of a departure from her traditional writing canon. Detailing the lifelong struggles of someone, shall we say, “vertically challenged,” the book shares the ups and downs of being short-statured in a tall world.
“What do I do if science tells me one thing but religion tells me another thing? Which do I believe?”
There’s a false assumption at the center of that question, because neither science nor religion are about believing in “things.”
Very much on the beaten path of tourists and pilgrims to Rome, a frescoed ode to the rosary is visited by as few as a dozen people a day.
In the 2014 chapbook the “Catholic Imagination in Modern American Poetry,” distinguished poet and educator James Matthew Wilson celebrates that the “Catholic imagination” continues to inform and inspire American poetry.
