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A Necessary Man: Nikolai Gogol’s Character Taras Bulba

Posted by Rev. Kevin Bezner | Jul 10, 2016 | Books, Eastern Church, Family, Featured, Friendship, Literature |

While Gogol’s novel Taras Bulba primarily concerns the workings of Bulba’s mind, heart, and soul as a Cossack, it also is about his two sons, Ostrap and Andri, a type of Cain and Abel.

Dana Gioia’s 99 Poems: Poetry of Wonder and Awe

Posted by Rev. Kevin Bezner | May 22, 2016 | America, Books, Catholic Church, Culture, Featured, Literature, Poetry |

This is poetry that leads us to reflect on the light and the darkness within the soul of man and leaves us looking at life and the creation of the God who loves mankind with wonder and awe.

Fr. Jacques Philippe — Starting Anew in Prayer

Posted by Rev. Kevin Bezner | Dec 31, 2015 | Catholic Church, Faith, Featured, Friendship, Popes, Saints, Scripture, Spirituality, Theology |

No matter where we are in our spiritual life, even if we have spent fifty years as a monk, we...

Staying the Course with the Fathers – Let the Synod Bishops Hear

Posted by Rev. Kevin Bezner | Oct 23, 2015 | Bishops, Catholic Church, Faith, Family, Featured, Marriage, Popes, Saints, Spirituality, Theology |

Laity and priests and bishops and cardinals with their own ideas and desires, or who went along with the prevailing winds of political power or secular whim, have threatened and attacked the Church from within. Some have found their way back to truth after wandering. Some have left the Church because it would not bend to their will.

Pope Francis: Head of State, Contemplative in Action

Posted by Rev. Kevin Bezner | Sep 24, 2015 | Featured |

In reminding Congress that their work must protect the human being who is made in the image and likeness of God, Pope Francis reminded our nation that if we are to be true to our history and foundational values, God must remain at the center of all we are, all we do.

Francis in America: The People’s Pope, and the Church’s

Posted by Rev. Kevin Bezner | Sep 23, 2015 | America, Bishops, Catholic Church, Featured, Foreign Affairs, Popes, Social Teaching, Spirituality |

Others attempt to define him, but Francis defines himself by his words and his actions.

From the Gulag, a Priest and Poet Issue a Warning

Posted by Rev. Kevin Bezner | Jun 23, 2015 | America, Books, Culture, Eastern Church, Faith, Family, Featured, Literature, Poetry, Spirituality |

The next day I thumbed through the book, “Father Arseny: A Cloud of Witnesses,” a collection of stories told by those who knew this faithful and humble Russian Orthodox priest, a starets, who had spent more than twenty years in the Soviet Gulag.