Day: October 3, 2010

Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

A Very Unusual Finding in a Very Unusual Novena

The Association of Catholic Hebrews (catholichebrews.org) is a group of Jewish people who have become Catholics. On their web site, there’s a Novena to Saint Edith Stein. She converted from Judaism to Catholicism and became a nun. The Nazis arrested her, and she died in one of their prison camps. The following appears on the […]
Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

The Iron Age has Passed. We Should Get Over it.

Most of our religious terminology comes from the Iron Age. Men were forging iron and smelting steel in pre-Christian times. Things didn’t change much, technologically, until the Age of Steam, which let people turn iron, in the form of cylinders, rods, gears, and boilers into motion. Now, we live in an Age of Electron Control, […]