I am so grateful for Father Roderick Strange’s willingness to do an e-interview with me about the book Newman 101 and Newman’s upcoming canonization.
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I am so grateful for Father Roderick Strange’s willingness to do an e-interview with me about the book Newman 101 and Newman’s upcoming canonization.
The best preparation for loving the world at large, and loving it duly and wisely, is to cultivate an intimate friendship and affection towards those who are immediately about us.”—Newman, Parochial and plain sermons
Here is my review of Newman 101 and other Newman books. This will appear in this weekend’s print Catholic Post. I invite your comments, and check back all month for lots of Newman links and other discussion, including an exclusive Q&A with Newman 101 author Roderick Strange.
All month long, I’ve been promising to myself make the fusion fajitas that Father Leo Patalinghug beat Food TV Chef Bobby Flay on the “Throwdown” show. We have watched the episode plenty of times at our house, especially after Father Leo appeared at our parish in May. What an exciting time we had meeting him in person.
I haven’t even finished this article from the New York Times about scientists who left their cellphones and Internet behind for a week, and I want to turn off everything and go off for a week into the wilderness.
I’ve thought a lot about the relationship we all have with being “plugged in” after I wrote about Nicholas Carr’s new book, “The Shallows” on what the Internet is doing to our brain.
I think rather than continue to do “research” on what’s best, I’m formulating an idea of a plan to have certain times that are Internet-free. That already happens for me pretty naturally with taking care of a household and three busy children. But I do find my checking e-mail or just clicking around on the Internet to be seeping into lots of time that could be spent more interestingly. Do you have a time or day when you do not connect with the world in any way? What do you do with that time?