Muscular and Heavenly: “Arvo Pärt The Four Symphonies”
Each of these four compositions, as with all of Pärt’s work, is a journey into the heart and soul of a great composer.
Read MorePosted by Rev. Kevin Bezner | Jun 15, 2018 | Eastern Church, Faith, Featured, Music |
Each of these four compositions, as with all of Pärt’s work, is a journey into the heart and soul of a great composer.
Read MorePosted by Rev. Kevin Bezner | Jan 12, 2018 | Catholic Church, Featured, Popes |
The problem is not that the phrase is confusing, as the pope suggests. The problem is with the inclination today to make everything easy for the lazy.
Read MorePosted by Rev. Kevin Bezner | Dec 11, 2017 | America, Books, Catholic Church, Featured |
The book, Pioneer Priests and Makeshift Altars. is the story of those who helped make the United States the standard bearer for religious liberty for the world
Read MorePosted by Rev. Kevin Bezner | Oct 3, 2017 | Books, Catholic Church, Faith, Featured, Social Teaching, Spirituality, Theology |
In an age in which true fathers are scarce, and immature and confused men with no understanding of...
Read MorePosted by Rev. Kevin Bezner | Jun 11, 2017 | Bishops, Catholic Church, Eastern Church, Featured, Liturgy, Spirituality, Theology |
We will have a diminished diaconate in the Church as long as deacons are thought to be either permanent or transitional, as no different from the laity, and as not a true part of the priesthood.
Read MorePosted by Rev. Kevin Bezner | Feb 26, 2017 | America, Catholic Church, Culture, Eastern Church, Family, Featured, Literature |
My mother, unlike me, always knew her home. She carried it in her heart wherever we lived before we moved to the small town across the river from the city where she was born.
Read MorePosted by Rev. Kevin Bezner | Jan 14, 2017 | Books, Culture, Featured, Literature, Poetry |
Reading good poetry, Pearce writes, can prevent us from wasting time in activities such as watching television, noodling on the web, or indulging in social media. Such activities, he argues, can dull the mind and transform us into narcissistic, prideful, and self-centered persons.
Read MorePosted by Rev. Kevin Bezner | Dec 16, 2016 | Books, Catholic Church, Family, Featured, Popes, Theology |
What Benedict says about his successor, Pope Francis, is gracious and supportive, which is as it should be. This, it seems, is more the result of Benedict’s humility than decorum.
Read MorePosted by Rev. Kevin Bezner | Oct 17, 2016 | 2016 Election, America, Bishops, Catholic Church, Featured, How To Vote Catholic, Media, Politics, Social Teaching, Spirituality, Theology |
What we have learned from WikiLeaks is that in its efforts to interfere with the Church in the United States and Church teaching the Clinton campaign bears a closer resemblance to the Russians and the Communist Manifesto than to our founding fathers and the Constitution. Where is the outrage?
Read MorePosted by Rev. Kevin Bezner | Sep 3, 2016 | Culture, Featured, Media, Poetry |
Democratic Party leaders know who butters their toast. They create a lie, with the assistance of wealthy rebel millionaires like Kaepernick, that maintains a permanent class of angry and hostile poor of all ethnicities who never hear the truth about who truly is to blame for injustice and their situation in life.
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