Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel

The original name of this blog, that first came out in 1997 was The Graven Image Journal…taken from the great Jewish Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, one of the greatest spiritual writers of the last century…who said in one of his writings that God broke His own commandment when He created man and woman in [...]

Pope: "Discord and Controversies Arise"

Even among the saints…from the Wednesday Audience:
Barnabas “was one of the first to embrace Christianity,” the Pope explained, “and it was he who guaranteed the sincerity of Paul’s conversion before the Christian community of Jerusalem, which still distrusted its one-time persecutor”. The Holy Father also recalled how Barnabas had participated in the Council of Jerusalem, [...]

Behind Every Private Audience with the Pope

There is someone in the hierarchy who got you there…
The strange case of Terry McAuliffe as interviewed by Hugh Hewitt:
TM: In fact, I’m up to be on the Knights of Malta right now. They’ve just asked me to join the Knights of Malta.HH: Oh, we’d better put out a word.TM: Are you one of those?HH: [...]

Rev. Robert Drinan Dies

Roman Catholic priest elected as voting member of Congress dead . Amy and I were talking about him yesterday and then last night I heard that he had died.
One cannot understand the Democrat Catholics who hold views contrary to the what the Church teaches without understanding that behind everyone of them stands a priest. Fr. [...]

New Bishop for Youngstown

Who happens to be the current bishop of St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands…mmm Northern Ohio from the VI, not sure this is a promotion.
Pope Benedict XVI appoints Bishop George V. Murry, S.J. as Bishop of the Diocese of Youngstown

Please Remember in Your Prayers

Gaurav Shroff’s father Economist Manu Shroff passes away
And my godfather Clarence Grover

#1 Catholic Bestseller on Amazon

Thanks to the readers of Amy’s blog and this one.
The Gift of Faith
Ranked 454 out of the millions of books that Amazon sells! You have displaced Gary Wills’ What Paul Really Meant as the #1 Catholic title….a real service to those who don’t know much and will now encounter a very solid and life changing [...]

One of the Best Books on the Spiritual LIfe

I’ve ever read…
I have a M.A. in Christian Spirituality and have read a ton of books on the spiritual life, but I would have to say that The Gift of Faith by Father Tadeusz Dajczer is in a class all by itself.
I only came to know of this book a week ago, when I met [...]

Please pray for my Godfather

…who died this morning after 94 years. He would have been 95 if he had lived one more month.

Who Could be New York’s Next Archbishop?

Cardinal Egan retires on April 2nd.
From the New York Magazine:
1. Edwin O’Brien, 67Archbishop of the Military Services of the United States O’Brien was passed over in 2000 in favor of Egan, but his name frequently surfaces as a possible successor. A native New Yorker, he is now head of the military vicariate, the nonterritorial archdiocese [...]

Pope: St. Thomas Aquinas Model of Dialogue

From Asia News Italy:
The Pope made an appeal today against violence in Lebanon and Gaza, for leprosy patients on World Day of Leprosy, but above all to scientists and men and women of culture “not to be afraid” of the dialogue between faith and reason so that we can avoid the risk of “schizophrenia”, irrationality, [...]

Pope’s Latinist: "He Won’t Do It!"

Extend the use of the Tridentine liturgy…
From the much loved Carmelite Fr. Reginald Foster, as recorded in the Telegraph:
“He is not going to do it,” Fr Foster said. “He had trouble with Regensberg, and then trouble in Warsaw, and if he does this, all hell will break loose.” In any case, he added: “It is [...]

Right Now its Snowing in Winchester, NH

How do I know? The Weather Channel’s new interactive map lets you zoom in to anywhere in the world. A fascinating way of connecting two technologies!

Martini’s Annunciation

Christians are “too silent” in Bearing Witness to the World

Pope Benedict’s message to close the week for Christian Unity. The address as remarkable as any this Pope gives raises interesting questions about the ecumenical movement in this country. Have we joined forces to speak out against politicians who continue to support abortion–or have we chosen to observe a polite silence–that is impolite to the [...]