As the year winds down, I’m finishing the podcasts of the Catechism in a Year from Ascension Press. It’s been a struggle to get through, but worth it. The sources that the Catechism drew from are wide and wonderful, and offer new reading material. Parts of the Catechism are like poetry, and parts are a [...]
Merry Christmas!
On the second day of Christmas, celebrate Saint Stephen's day, or the story of Good King Wenceslaus, or anything else that is Christmas. Five years ago my son celebrated his first Christmas as a seminarian. Saint Charles Borromeo, the seminary in Philadelphia where half of the Arlington seminarians go, had a number of lovely traditions [...]
Artificial Intelligence
Amid all the talk about AI and whether it will take over the world, and become sentient, and kill all of us, or whatever, I end up thinking about three different things. How much of what we see around us is something like ‘artificial intelligence’ already? For example, there’s a lot of computing thought in [...]
Catholic fiction?
If you want to write well, you have to read a lot. That’s been the advice to aspiring writers, for well over fifty years. Especially, they say, read in the area where you want to write. “What you want to write” is a complicated concept. I just finished writing a book that I thought was [...]
Update! (forgot a title…)
I have several different thought lines running at the moment. Here’s an update to keep me clear. In regards to the mysterious figure in the 9th Station at my church, Our Lady of Hope, in Potomac Falls, Virginia, I got in touch with the Shrine of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton in Emmitsburg. A researcher there [...]
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