Just some random tidbits that caught my eye.
Did you know Prince Charles was at the recent canonization in Rome?!
ESPN did a great article about a professional basketball star who became a Poor Clare nun. It's a long read but so worth it, and the accompanying video would be a good one to show your kids. As her coach Harry Perretta says, "To someone who understands, no explanation is necessary. To someone who doesn't understand, no explanation will suffice."
I remember when her brother would talk about her in our Freshman year religion class, and looking back I can't believe then she had only been in the convent a handful of years.
I remember when her brother would talk about her in our Freshman year religion class, and looking back I can't believe then she had only been in the convent a handful of years.
Our faith is so cool. Have you heard of Nicholas Black Elk? He was a Native American convert to Catholicism who fought in the Battle of the Little Bighorn, performed in Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show (Buffalo Bill was a deathbed convert!), and signed a petition supporting St. Kateri's canonization (before he converted)- nbd. Also, his first wife's name was Katie War Bonnet, which I think is supremely awesome. His cause for canonization was opened in 2017!
I have a fascination with non-Catholic* celebrity-type people who have big families. I guess because as Catholics our faith is counter-cultural and these couples are being counter-cultural too. Here's what I've gleaned via Instagram and the Costco Connection:
-The founders of Melissa and Doug have six kids, and the mom (Melissa, current chief creative officer) left a job on Wall Street to start the company with her husband (Doug).
-James Van Der Beek and his wife are expecting their 6th baby.
-Alec Baldwin and his wife are expecting baby number five.
(*assuming.)