Back to BasicsRecent Reads Oct 27, 2025 I can’t tell you how happy I am that our new Director of Music has reinstituted the handbell choir at our parish! As you may remember, I was crushed when our former director took a new job last spring, prematurely ending our season. And while some of us made theContinue reading “Bells are Ringing”
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A Power Made Perfect in Weakness
The Song at the Scaffold and Little Souls Recent Reads Aug 29, 2025 Sometimes, everything I happen to read—novels, essays, and spiritual books—seems to coalesce around a particular theme. In a matter of weeks, I encountered the Carmelites of Compiègne, who were martyred during the Reign of Terror, in three different places. In his do-it-yourselfContinue reading “A Power Made Perfect in Weakness”
Welcome The Stranger
Which of the corporal works of mercy most attracts you? Recent Reads Jul 05, 2025 Early in The Bicycle Messenger, Mary Ellen and Charles Hawley learn of the existence of a young relative in need of a home. Seven-year-old Steven has just lost his father to cancer; and according to the silk-stocking attorney who serves asContinue reading “Welcome The Stranger”
Righteous Among the Nations
A real-life hero appears in The Bicycle Messenger Recent Reads Jun 20, 2025 Tadeusz Pankiewicz (photo: Wikipedia Commons) The Nazis established the Kraków ghetto in Poland in the district of Podgórze in March of 1941, initially cramming some 15,000 people into an area meant to house about 3,000. The previous residents of the district were evicted and givenContinue reading “Righteous Among the Nations”
Recent Reads – July
Showcasing Catholic writers with ties to Milwaukee, Part One: When in Rome by Liam Callanan Liam Callanan is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Liam Callanan’s fourth novel, When in Rome (Dutton, 2023), takes place at a crossroads. For years, Claire and her best friend Monica have helped religious orders sell orContinue reading “Recent Reads – July”
Joan Elizabeth Bauer 