Tristyn K. Bloom

From an interview with the Catholic Herald , December 1978: “Methodism isn’t just a religion for Sundays—no faith is only a faith for Sundays. There were a lot of things during the week which one attended. Methodism is a pretty practical faith; there were the mothers’ sewing . . . . Continue Reading »

Yesterday, February 28, Orthodox Christians observed the feast day of John Cassian, the fourth/fifth-century monastic saint known for his writings on the Desert Fathers and his responses to Augustine’s anti-Pelagian works. Technically, however, his feast day is February  29 , a . . . . Continue Reading »

Okay, probably not, but while we’re discussing the intersection of religion and Playboy bunnies here at First Things , I thought I’d share this curious artifact : The heraldic image above actually comes from the  Hastings Hours  (a private devotional book) in the  British . . . . Continue Reading »

Patriarch Bartholomew and Pope Benedict in Istanbul in 2006 ( Source ) From the Orthodox Christian Network : His All-Holiness closely cooperated with the Pope during the tenure of Pope Benedict, issuing joint statements on contemporary problems facing humanity and realizing official exchange . . . . Continue Reading »

Members of Mullet’s settlement wait to make their pleas ( Associated Press ). From the Cleveland Plain Dealer : Federal prosecutors today [February 5] urged a judge to sentence Amish bishop Samuel Mullet to life in prison for coordinating a series of beard-cutting attacks on victims who . . . . Continue Reading »

¿Serías capaz de perdonarlo? Could you forgive him? Director of the Centro Católico Multimedial, Fr. P. Sergio Omar Sotelo Aguilar, S.S.P., premiered the first chapter of his film Hermano Narco on Sunday in the Metropolitan Cathedral of Mexico City as part of a . . . . Continue Reading »

In a story that seems equal parts Father Ted * and The   Boondock Saints , three young men robbed an Irish monsignor and his housekeeper on Monday evening in a flurry of hammer-waving, cross-signing,   and warm Gaelic hospitality: One of the raiders, who spoke with a Traveller and Dublin . . . . Continue Reading »

Art Daily profiles Natalia Tsarkova, an Orthodox Christian who happens to be the Vatican’s official painter: Tsarkova arrived in Rome in the early 1990s and began doing portraits of Roman aristocrats, who introduced her at the Vatican where her background captured the attention of late pope . . . . Continue Reading »

Balkan Insight reports : A year-long celebration marking 1,700 years since the Roman Empire granted Christians religious freedom will start on January 17 in the Serbian city of Nis, where Roman emperor Constantine the Great was born. . . . On the opening day of the celebrations a concert of . . . . Continue Reading »

One of my favorite things about the Yale Glee Club , of which I was a member for three years, is its attention to and care for old student songs. Every member upon joining is given a Yale Song Book, full of things like “Gaudeamus Igitur,” “‘Neath the Elms”, and, of . . . . Continue Reading »