The Crisis of Faith

A Short Story By Fr. Frederick Edlefsen
January 9, 2023

Seth McMinn had over a dozen bumper stickers on the transom of his 2003 Honda, Element, which he street parked in front of an adobe house in Arroyo Seco, New Mexico. He rented a room there from Naomi, a flannel...Read more

This Thing that has Happened: Thoughts on Christmas

by Fr. Frederick Edlefsen
December 15, 2022

When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, ‘Let’s go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about.’” (Luke 2:15) ...Read more

Advent is About Mary

by Fr. Frederick Edlefsen
November 28, 2022

“Jesus is conceived by the Holy Spirit in the Virgin Mary’s womb because he is the New Adam, who inaugurates the new creation: ‘The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is...Read more

Gratitude and Redemption Thanksgiving Reflections

by Fr. Frederick Edlefsen
November 8, 2022

When Giovanni da Verrazzano explored North America’s eastern seaboard in 1524, on behalf of King Francis I of France, he sailed from what is now North Carolina through New York Bay and Narragansett Bay up...Read more

The Romance of Hunch and Lexi - Part 2 - “Lexi’s Painting”

by Fr. Frederick Edlefsen
October 18, 2022
The Starfish Hotel. T-Rex Goofy Golf was on its left. Shark Head Souvenirs was on its right, featuring gigantic shark jaws swallowing the entrance. Back in the ‘70s, it all was along Highway 90 in Gulfport, Mississippi. One block west...Read more
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