Friendship and Holiness
July 28, 2026
By Fr. Frederick Edlefsen
Though we must love everyone, few can be our “friends.” Friendship and charity (loving everyone) are related. Healthy friendships are charitable, chaste, non-possessive, and freeing. Here are examples of saints who...Read more
Improvisation
Summertime Reflections on Love Songs and Love
July 21, 2026
By Fr. Frederick Edlefsen
In the fall of 1971, my first-grade teacher asked the class if anyone knew a Halloween song. I stood up and improvised a song. I made up lyrics about ghosts and...Read more
Having a Bad Day? Try This.
July 13, 2026
Triolet A Poem by G. K. Chesterton I wish I were a jelly fish That cannot fall downstairs; Of all the things I wish to wish I wish I were a jellyfish That hasn't any cares And doesn't even...Read more
July’s Medieval Mysticism
July 7, 2026
By Fr. Frederick Edlefsen
Long before Christ, kings were reckoned mediators between the gods and the realm. In medieval Europe, emperors and kings were “priestly” mediators of a Corpus Mysticum Christi (a Mystical Body of...Read more
“The Birthright of Humanity”
Preparing for Independence Day 250
June 30, 2026
By Fr. Frederick Edlefsen
The last page of my passport footnotes, in small print, a quote by the late African American author, Anna Julia Cooper: “The cause of freedom is not the cause of a...Read more
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