Note: On Fridays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there. The nineteenth century was a dangerous time to be a Catholic in Korea. It’s estimated that at least eight thousand of the faithful were killed
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Melanie Rigney is the author of Radical Saints: 21 Women for the 21st Century and other Catholic books. She is a contributor to Living Faith and other Catholic blogs. She lives in Arlington, Virginia. Melanie also owns Editor for You, a publishing consultancy that since 2003 has helped hundreds of writers, publishers, and agents.
Bold Messages, Fearless Messenger
Note: On Fridays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there. He wasn’t an intellectual, or a noteworthy theologian, for that matter. But some say Saint John Chrysostom, whose
The Night(mare) of the Iguana
Friday, 2 a.m. I bolted up in bed and looked to my open closet door, expecting to see several large lime-green iguanas crawling among my sheets, towels, and shoes. In my “dream,” I was in an animal park of some sort, strolling along a walkway. The iguanas were in trenches nearby. I’d been warned not… Continue reading The Night(mare) of the Iguana
What Doesn’t Fall Apart
Note: On Fridays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there. It’s ironic that in “The Second Coming,” W.B. Yeats, who considered himself more mystic than Christian (and no fan of Catholicism