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Behold: something sweet and sacred, a lovely portrait of a woman who does something very few do anymore.  She makes habits for nuns.    H/T The A.

How’s this for the start of an amazing story: Winter 1989, downtown South Bend, Indiana. The night is snowy and crisp. Inside the bar, already humid and smoky, the guitarist lights his cigarette, takes a long, patient drag and wedges it among the strings in the head of his guitar. As the smoke drifts from…

The rising star of the Oakland A’s announced yesterday that he’s quitting baseball to begin studies for the priesthood: The A’s prized prospect exited the season with a head-turning presence, accompanied by a bat that produced 31 home runs and a speedy 6-foot-2 frame that stole 40 bases in Class A ball — making him…

Longtime readers know of my affection for and devotion to the Monastery of the Holy Spirit, the Trappist house outside Atlanta. Flannery O’Connor was a frequent visitor, and Dorothy Day was known to drop by when she was in the area. I have many friends there among the monks, and have visited there several times…
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