Vindication for the whistleblower. I became aware of a site claiming that four other 'victims' have come forward to tell their story...

“Through the long years of isolation and suffering, God had led me to an understanding of life and his love that only those who have experi...

'Trappist Monk' acrylic on panel for antique frame 11"x14.5" Terry Nelson 2022 I actually finished it yesterday, January 3...

 

 

Editing. I removed the posts on the Cowboy Monks because of a Tweet from Fr. Ray Blake revealing Church Militant coercive tactics to elicit ...

New Year means nothing to me. Just a new calendar. Nothing new here.  So.  We're all caught up then? I spend too much time on FB and mon...

 I'm told the Trappists have very few vocations and many houses have small communities of mostly elderly monks.  I was reading the biogr...

 

 

  Airing grievances. Not really - at least I don't read him that way.  I happen to love his sober calls to conversion right before Chris...

Resisting the Pope to his face? Two issues caught my attention, as readers know: The reactions by some contemplative nuns to the document Co...

Valparaiso Carmel, barricaded against Visitators. The truth behind the fear mongering. Archbishop Vigano has famously called contemplative n...

 

S. Martin de Porres S. John Macias in the style of Angelico. T. Nelson 2021 Recent paintings after Fra Angelico. The reason I began painting...

"A long time after the Lord had already granted me many of the favors I've mentioned and other very lofty ones, while I was in pray...

Filmmaker Luis Buñuel He, along with Fellini and others, were consider filmmakers hostile to the faith.  Yet they displayed a marvelous insi...

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  Friar Camillus Delude ✞ 2014 American. Diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s Disease (ALS) in 1993 and given only a few years to live, Brother Camil...

The Fall My lifelong existential crisis continues.  Kind of.  I'm simply perplexed these days.  It seems everything is in a state of col...