A Frenchman who Showed the Face of God
EMR
He was born in 1836 in Nantes, one of the four pillar-cities of the ancient Duchy of Brittany, to a rich cloth merchant and his wife. Brittany is, to this day, ...
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Milwaukee’s Sublime Library
EMR
When you're ten years old, you skitter along, dodging bulky objects, confused by it all. One afternoon, I left the confines of my mother’s overweight Oldsmobile...
Washington Park in Milwaukee
EMR
Smack in the middle of Milwaukee, there is a 124-acre oasis designed by the architect who built Central Park in New York. There is a huge Art Deco bandshell ...
Going Deeper: Low Mass Attendance
O.A.C.
What is the Way? What is the Truth? What is the Life?
What does it look like, smell like, sound like? These are the questions to which the heart seeks a defi...
Adoration
O.A.C.
Our deepest hungers are not for food and drink, not for amusements and recreations, not for property and wardrobes, not for notoriety and gossip. We hunger for ...
Paradise on Lincoln
EMR
It's November and a very long winter is on the way. It's two weeks after payday and the account is dry. The car needs work. Mourning and weeping is all well and...
The Rosary’s Power
Bishop Hying
The rosary serves us as a profound Scriptural meditation on the lives of Christ and Mary. When we pray it, we are asking the Blessed Virgin to open up the treas...
Spotting a Clericalist
Peter
A specter is haunting the Church. The specter of clericalism.
What is clericalism? The unchecked behavior of rogue clerics, drunk on their own po...
Weak Sauce On Weakland
Peter
Many people, in many places and many times, have written about the fall of Archbishop Rembert Weakland. It's old news. At this point, regarding the man himself,...
Saint Michael the Archangel
EMR
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Fall of the Rebel Angels (1562)
He fascinates us. But why?
What is less fashionable than a strong man? Than a soldier? Than...